Ribbon vs Classic

[irneb]

As suggested, I now have the ribbon on my other screen but still having my personal UI on the main screen, ie with menubar & toolbars. However I found that when I do a hatch (keyboard command H), the dialog box doesn't come up, but the command line says HATCH Pick internal point or [Select objects/seTtings], and by typing T the dialog box appears. Any way to overcome this, ie without having to type that T option? I know it's a minor thing, but if it can be fixed, great! Thanks.

... Only I tend to turn it on/off every time I want to work with hatches, otherwise my i7-SandyBridge + 16GB crashes on my drawings (they're just too complex for that preview hatching).

I've made a keyboard shortcut for the Ribbon command (set to Ctrl+R), that way I can toggle it on/off quickly before creating / editing hatches.

Edit: Here's the macro code:

^P^C^C(command (if (= (getvar 'RibbonState) 0) "._RIBBON" "._RIBBONCLOSE"))

[irneb]

Actually, it seems that doesn't need to be done. The HPDLGMODE in 2012 seems to sort out this issue, just set it to 1 instead of the default 2.

[nextvkin]

irneb, you're a champ! Thanks.

[irneb]

Glad to help, though I only found out about that setting because of this thread

It's a much better solution than my previous way of toggling the Ribbon on/off! Now if only I could get at a setting to display the bedit palette & toolbar instead of the ribbon panel in bedit mode (just because I like it better) ... probably need to learn how to use the ribbon panel instead (though I hate it when the wrong panel is displayed when you need it)!

[nextvkin]

In the same vein, when editing mtext with the ribbon on, the text formatting toolbar does not show up unless MTEXTTOOLBAR is set to 1 (default is 2).