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2005 LT - turn off "pop-up" menus?
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2005 LT - turn off "pop-up" menus?

2005 LT - turn off "pop-up" menus?

(OP)
My company has "upgraded" my department from R14 to 2005LT. My problem is, that I type commands, I don't use menus or anything.

It's really hindering me and getting annoying when the menus pop up when using the second (right) mouse button as an "enter" key. For example, I used to hit "z" "enter" "a" to zoom all. Now, it's "Z" "enter" "a" "enter" and then the menu pops up and  I have to select "all".

Same with repeating a previously used command, the menu pops up.

Is there any way to turn these off?

RE: 2005 LT - turn off "pop-up" menus?

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Do you have in the Options dialog, under User Preferences a RightClick Customization button?

"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects." — Will Rogers

RE: 2005 LT - turn off "pop-up" menus?

(OP)
What do ya know, I do! ;)

Thank you so much, this is exactly what I was looking for.

I appreciate it! You just took away a headache ;)

RE: 2005 LT - turn off "pop-up" menus?

I kind of wonder how close to retirement
you are.  I too preferred typing rather
than the scroll downs.  Guys who used the
menus continually eventually were faster
than my typing.  I started out with ACAD9
when it was back in the DOS days.
I too have LT version and found that drop
down bothersome.  Thanks Borgunit.
Gave you a star!

RE: 2005 LT - turn off "pop-up" menus?

(OP)
Diamondjim,

Actually I am 24 years old this Sunday ;)

I started with AutoCAD 10 (DOS-based) when I was in 8th grade, so I was like 13-14.

I am just MUCH faster with typing the commands. It's kind of funny actually, I don't even think about what to type anymore, my brain just processes in AutoCAD commands and I type away. Kinda messes me up when I am writing a document in Word for one of my classes, and I type "qsave" and hit enter.

RE: 2005 LT - turn off "pop-up" menus?

If you prefer typing your commands, you might enjoy "cmddia", in addition to the dialog box returned at selecting "options", as mentioned in an earlier (excellent)post.

"cmddia" accepts 0 or 1 & off or on, and temporarily disables/enables command dialog boxes. I use this extensively in menu macros that want direct input maybe from the output of a previous command, and I want to avoid the annoyance of LISP workarounds.

There are also dialog box-less versions of almost every command that uses a dialog box. Precede the command name with a dash "-"; ex- "-layer" and get the old command-line response for the layer command!

Used to 1-key or 2-key shortcuts? Try creating a command "alias" using the dashed version of the command, in addition to the conventional aliases you've defined. You'll FLY!

Good Luck!

C. Fee

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