User interface
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After a little fun last Tuesday around a pink theme for AutoCAD – for which I got at least a few "we should totally do that"s from internal folk in response, so watch this space 😉 – today we're going to talk more seriously about what's needed to support the dark theme in your applications. […]
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During the AutoCAD team's efforts to introduce the dark theme in the 2015 version, work was done to more easily support additional themes. A lot of work was needed to create the underlying mechanism but now it's really easy to add your own themes. To test the mechanism, the AutoCAD team has created a sample […]
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I've just arrived home from a 10-day trip to the Bay Area. It was a really interesting visit – as usual – but I'm happy to be home (even if I'm writing this at 3am, once again fighting jetlag). The news has started to come out about AutoCAD 2015 – much of it fed by […]
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I'm up in the mountains for the week as the kids have their winter half-term break (which in Switzerland is actually intended for kids to ski… very civilized :-). I'm going to take a few meetings and probably write a few blog posts, but otherwise I'm planning on hitting the slopes whenever I get the […]
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To follow on from yesterday's post, today we're going to look at an alternative implementation that – rather than modifying the Edit shortcut menu that appears for all object types – adds our custom menu item to the shortcut menu associated with a specific type of object. In our case we want to associate the […]
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A big thanks to Parrish Husband for both suggesting this topic and providing the majority of the code in this post. Parrish had been attempting to extend the technique shown in this aging post to include an icon with the content menu item. At least one person had done this before, according to the blog […]
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I was up in Adelboden, this weekend, for the Men's FIS World Cup Slalom and Giant Slalom events. Yes, just watching – not participating 🙂 – although I did get the chance to catch a few much gentler slopes on my snowboard during the course of the weekend. On the Saturday – during the Giant […]
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As I started on my linear algebra class, some weeks ago, I decided to dust off the Transformer app I'd written a few years ago and make sure it works in AutoCAD 2014. It actually really helped me in creating appropriate transformation matrices for certain parts of the course. Coincidentally, a few days ago, I […]
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Or otherwise named "Creating an AutoCAD jig to dynamically display a guilloché pattern using F#". But then why pass up the chance for a Jerry Maguire reference? 🙂 Anyway, to continue on from last week's post, Doug – who had presented the original challenge – went on to suggest that I give it the same […]
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I headed cross to the Zurich area on Tuesday afternoon – which is quite a trek from where I live, around ~2.5 hours by train – to attend the first Zurich .NET Developer meet-up. The event was held in the Microsoft office in Wallisellen: they kindly provided beer and the meeting room, while the session […]