User interface
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A big thanks to Tony Tanzillo for providing some tips to help improve the implementation of the application we saw in these previous posts: in particular Tony pointed out the ability of AutoCAD 2010 to generate a thumbnail image for a document in the editor programmatically (something I had forgotten was possible… at least I […]
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As Scott is leaving on a well-deserved sabbatical, he has gone ahead and posted our next Plugin of the Month a few days ahead of schedule. Here's a link to Scott's post announcing the tool. This is a very cool little application developed by Mark Dubbelaar from Australia. Mark has been drafting/designing with AutoCAD for […]
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This is a topic that I've covered to some degree in a couple of previous posts: Using AutoCAD's file selection dialog from .NET Replacing AutoCAD's OPEN command using .NET Neither focused on the question of allowing the user to select from a number of different file format filters (try saying "different file format filters" five […]
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Gopinath Taget, from DevTech Americas, will be delivering a repeat session of this free webcast on Thursday, August 20. Please go to our API training schedule if you would like to register for the event (from where a recording of the previous event is also available for download (20.3 MB)). Here's a brief synopsis of […]
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OK, OK: I know I said I'd talk more about overrules, last week, but – as is often the way, I'm afraid to say – I got distracted. The good news, though, is that I got distracted by something genuinely interesting, and well worth sharing. I've been working on upgrading the WinForms user interface of […]
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One of the responses to my last post on the "Plugin of the Month" asked about showing information on an AutoCAD drawing object via a tooltip. Other than using the standard rollover tooltip properties mechanism, as shown in this previous post, the best way to achieve this is via a PointMonitor. In the below C# […]
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In this recent post we looked at adding custom editing capabilities for dynamic properties we've added via .NET. In the first example we looked at a "distance" property which provided a button allowing the user to select two points. In this post we'll look at implementing a masked string property, such as one you would […]
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Back in these previous posts, we introduced an ObjectARX module that exposed AutoCAD's Property Palette to .NET (thanks again to Cyrille Fauvel for his work on this :-). In this post we're going to build on this work to demonstrate how to integrate properties with more advanced editing controls into the Property Palette. [Note: this […]
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As mentioned in this previous post, Fenton Webb is presenting a two-part series on using the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) in your AutoCAD .NET applications. The first session on June 2nd was recorded and the second is to be held next week on July 14th. You can register for upcoming webcasts - and access recordings […]
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Fenton Webb, from DevTech Americas, is presenting two sessions on using WPF in your AutoCAD .NET applications. These will be of particular interest to developers wanting to take their ribbon interfaces to the next level in AutoCAD 2010, but will be of relevance to anyone wanting to understand more about WPF and how it can […]