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GraemeCooper
2005-08-01, 03:31 PM
Does anyone know how or if there is a way of disabling the F1 AutoCAD help key. A friend has asked me to find out as she is always hitting it when going for the Esc key - I thought it was going to be easy - just rummage around in the mnu or pgp files, but no.

Any ideas would be appreciated.
scwegner
2005-08-01, 03:37 PM
Yes, add:

["F1"]^c^c

to your acad.mns file under ***ACCELERATORS. Then it will act as a second escape since that's what you were trying to do anyway. To keep help accessible, you could also add:

[Alt+"F1"]HELP
robert.1.hall72202
2005-08-01, 03:45 PM
I have also run into the F1 help issue. I wasn't really hitting F1 and I was still getting the help menu. Since upgrading to 2006, I haven't had any problems.
GraemeCooper
2005-08-01, 03:48 PM
Thanks scwegner I'll try that
madcadder
2005-08-01, 04:09 PM
The F1 key has been removed from all my keyboards permanently (wk. & hm.)
They all seemed to have disappeared around '98; never to be seen again.
Ed Jobe
2005-08-01, 04:12 PM
Similar to that, I wrote a small lisp that echoed a note to the command line so that you(other users) don't wonder what happened. Since menu macros can include lisp, you could just add it to the macro.



["F1"]^c^c(princ "F1 has been disabled.")
scwegner
2005-08-01, 04:16 PM
The F1 key has been removed from all my keyboards permanently (wk. & hm.)
They all seemed to have disappeared around '98; never to be seen again.
Then there's always the trick of taping a thumbtack upside-down on top of the key. You won't make that mistake for long.
madcadder
2005-08-01, 04:21 PM
Then there's always the trick of taping a thumbtack upside-down on top of the key. You won't make that mistake for long.
By three PM I was dizzy from blood loss, lines turned into arcs, and the roof plan collapsed before my very eyes. It was easier to just remove the button with a paperclip.

<j/k>
scwegner
2005-08-01, 04:45 PM
By three PM I was dizzy from blood loss, lines turned into arcs, and the roof plan collapsed before my very eyes. It was easier to just remove the button with a paperclip.

<j/k> You know what they say: no pain, no gain. ;)
Mike.Perry
2005-08-01, 09:32 PM
Hi

Have a browse of the following thread -

Disabling Help (http://forums.augi.com/showthread.php?t=5857)

Have a good one, Mike
Adam R.
2005-08-03, 03:33 PM
Todw, I'm with you. My F1 key is long gone. I tossed is my first day of Acad 2005.