Basic ACAD functions have stopped working on user's machine

[jpduhon]

I have a user whose ACAD 06 has stopped functioning correctly and I need help.

The problem seems to somehow be related to window's system commands. CTL-z does not undo but typing "undo" at the command line envokes the command. The delete button does not erase objects and other things are happening that basically make ACAD unuseable.

Has anyone run into a simmilar problem or have a solution?
I have already tried rebooting, and repairing the program.

Thanks in advance for any help.

[.T.]

The delete key sounds suspiciously like having pickfirst = 0 instead of 1, and I would check the cui under Keyboard Shortcuts to see if CTL-Z is still defined.

[Rico]

The delete key sounds suspiciously like having pickfirst = 0 instead of 1, and I would check the cui under Keyboard Shortcuts to see if CTL-Z is still defined.

yeah, it sounds to me like the keyboard shortcuts in your CUI might have been changed ...

[jpduhon]

yeah, it sounds to me like the keyboard shortcuts in your CUI might have been changed ...

no... i've got the enterprise cui locked down pretty tight. i did check that as well.

[jpduhon]

The delete key sounds suspiciously like having pickfirst = 0 instead of 1, and I would check the cui under Keyboard Shortcuts to see if CTL-Z is still defined.

I didn't even think about pickfirst because of the ctl-z thing but that seemed to fix everything. I guess i'll add that line to acaddoc.lsp.

two qestions, though,
1 what's the use of setting that variable to 0?
2 how would this variable spontaniously be reset?

[Rico]

I didn't even think about pickfirst because of the ctl-z thing but that seemed to fix everything. I guess i'll add that line to acaddoc.lsp.

two qestions, though,
1 what's the use of setting that variable to 0?
2 how would this variable spontaniously be reset?

answer to Q1
PICKFIRST

Controls whether you select objects before (noun-verb selection) or after you issue a command. This will be visually obvious as objects selected will not show on the Layers toolbar, if pickfirst is set to 0. They wilol only show on the Properties Dialog Box. In other words, when pickfirst is set to 0, the Layers toolbar on the screen is disabled, sorta.

0 - Turns off PICKFIRST; you select objects after you issue a command



1 - Turns on PICKFIRST; you select objects before you issue a command

answer to Q2

AutoCAD gnomes

[jpduhon]

answer to Q1
PICKFIRST

Controls whether you select objects before (noun-verb selection) or after you issue a command. This will be visually obvious as objects selected will not show on the Layers toolbar, if pickfirst is set to 0. They wilol only show on the Properties Dialog Box. In other words, when pickfirst is set to 0, the Layers toolbar on the screen is disabled, sorta.

0 - Turns off PICKFIRST; you select objects after you issue a command



1 - Turns on PICKFIRST; you select objects before you issue a command

answer to Q2

AutoCAD gnomes

yeah, i looked it up in the help file too but the real question is, why would you want to do that? i can't think of a single reason i would want that variable set to 0.

and as i said before:
those gnomes won't get me!!!

[jaberwok]

yeah, i looked it up in the help file too but the real question is, why would you want to do that? i can't think of a single reason i would want that variable set to 0.

It's just for compatibility. Verb/noun used to be the only way available in acad.
Bear in mind that, despite the wording in Help, with Pickfirst set to 1 both noun/verb AND verb/noun selection styles work.