OK, for those of you still using the so-called 'Ideas-style' Fkeys for display control, here's something which will give you access to the normal '
F3' function key behavior, that is hiding dialogs without actually closing them by pushing a single button.
What you need to do is have a 'user_dir' or 'site_dir' set-up first. If you've not done this, I'll cover here what you need to do, however you might need to consider this first. Do you want all of your users having the option to use this capability or only a couple of users? If you want everyone to have the option then you will need to set-up a common folder somewhere that all users can get access to. The folder can be given whatever name that you wish, but it must contain a folder named 'startup' and in this folder you need to place the '.tbr' file attached to this post.
First, you'll need to set an environment variable on all of your systems as follows:
UGII_SITE_DIR=<full path to that folder you created above>
Now if you're only going to be doing this for one or two users, simply create that folder containing the 'startup' folder somewhere on the user's system and set the following environment variable locally:
UGII_USER_DIR=<full path to the local folder you created above>
OK, once you've done this, restart your system (to make sure the new environment variable has been read) and restart NX. Now the first time you do this you'll need to go into 'Customize' and when the list of toolbars are displayed, you need to toggle ON a toolbar named 'Hide Dialog'. Now when the toolbar is first displayed it will probably be floating out on the graphics window somewhere so just drag it to where you want it. Now you'll notice that this toolbar shows just a simple button with the name 'Hide Dialog'. If you wish, you can use 'Customize' to replace this named-button with an icon or change the wording of the button name.
Anyway, this will give you the same behavior as the normal '
F3' key would do, remembering that this a sort of toggle-button in that if you continue to select the button it will first turn-off any on-screen dialogs first, then the actual full dialog and then hitting it once more will redisplay them all and continuing to select it will cycle through these steps. Keep in mind that the dialog will only remain hidden for that one opening of the dialog. When you open it again it will be back to it's fully displayed mode.
So there you go, you can keep your 'Ideas-style' Fkeys and still get the normal '
F3' behavior.
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
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Cypress, CA
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