User interface
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On my flight back from Singapore I started thinking about how an app might help people discover what's new in the AutoCAD UI from release to release. This might also work for custom functionality, but that's not (currently) my main concern. I was thinking of displaying some kind of palette that cycles through the new […]
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It's time to start looking in more detail at some of the new API capabilities in AutoCAD 2016. To give you a sense of what to expect in terms of a timeline, this week we'll look at a couple of uses for DocumentCollection.ExecuteInCommandContextAsync() and next week we'll look at point cloud floorplan extraction and (hopefully) […]
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In this post we're wrapping up this mini-series on docking, which is part of a much broader story arc around a "command-line helper" tool, of course. But then we're reaching the end of that, too, I suspect, as the app's just about done. Hopefully it's ready for posting to Autodesk Labs, at least. Last time […]
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I'm happy to say that the implementation I mentioned in the last post ended up being pretty straightforward. Which is actually great, as I have some important posts to work on for next week. 🙂 Today we're going to take a look at the next stage of the "command-line helper" implementation: basic right-click movement of […]
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During the course of this week we're going to look at extending the command-line helper sample posted last week by allowing our global keywords window to "dock" to the four corners of the drawing window as well as to remain fixed at a custom location somewhere on the screen. I use the term "dock" here […]
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Today we're going to look at the implementation talked about in the last post: we're going to see how it's possible to use the Application.PreTranslateMessage() method to hack AutoCAD's message-loop and basically convert typed keywords into global ones. This is actually pretty neat (yes, even if I do say so myself 🙂 and frankly I'm […]
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This post carries on from this series from a couple of weeks ago: Adding a global keyword menu to AutoCAD using WPF – Part 1 Adding a global keyword menu to AutoCAD using WPF – Part 2 Enabling global commands on localized AutoCAD versions using .NET The overall goal behind these posts was to create […]
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After introducing this project in the last post, now it's time to share some code. The project, as it currently stands, contains three source files: the first one relates to AutoCAD – it implements the various commands we'll use to attach event handlers to tell us when to display (or hide) keywords and the other […]
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I'm up in the mountains, supposedly on vacation, but as one of our children woke up with a fever, I'm skipping the morning session on the slopes to stay home with him. Which gives me the chance to start writing up a little project I've been working on for our Localization team. Here's the idea… […]
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After yesterday's fun with creating an HTML5-based progress meter for AutoCAD, today we're going to have some more fun styling it with CSS. To recap, here's the progress meter that comes "out of the box", with the default styling from Chromium on Windows. The first thing we need to do for our various changes is […]