Have you disabled context menus in AutoCAD 2000 because they are so annoying? Do you get aggravated when you have to click twice to exit AutoCAD's RTPAN or RTZOOM commands? This feature eliminates the aggravation of context menus without losing their utility. A valuable side-effect of this feature is that the right button functions as a keyboard <Enter> simply by clicking and releasing it quickly (only when the cursor is in the drawing window -- see Extended right click for enacting this behavior outside the drawing window.)
The enhanced right click feature works by differentiating between a "fast right-click" and a normal right-click. A fast right-click is defined as a right button event where the button is pressed and released in less than one-half the system double-click time interval. When this feature is active, a fast right-click is translated to a keyboard <Enter> just as if the <Enter> button had been pressed on the keyboard.
In addition, this feature is designed to make right-click context menus activate when the button is pressed instead of when it's released. To do this, QuikPik waits for the button to be released until the fast right-click time interval has expired, then immediately activates the context menu if the button was not released during that interval. Normal operation causes the context menu to appear only after the button is released.
This feature allows you to fast right-click to get a keyboard <Enter>; or press, drag, and release on a context menu item to select it with only a single click.
To change the delay interval between pressing the right button and activation of the context menu, change the "double-click speed" setting in the Control Panel 'Mouse' applet.
AutoCAD 2000-2005 only:
When drawing objects are selected while no command is active, AutoCAD 2000 has a feature whereby a "fast" right click opens an object-specific context menu, and a "slow" right click (i.e. the button is pressed and held) invokes a drag operation). In order to not interfere with this built-in feature, QuikPik temporarily disables the "Enhanced right click" feature while objects are selected. Due to changes in AutoCAD 2000i, this feature is not necessary in certain cases. In such cases the feature is automatically disabled so as to not interfere with the built-in behavior.
AutoCAD LT 97 and AutoCAD LT 98 only:
When the RTCLICKMENU system variable is set to '1' (i.e. "Preferences|Work Space|Right-click mouse button" is set to "Shortcut menu"), the enhanced right click feature is essentially disabled inside the drawing window because the normal context menu is displayed by AutoCAD LT immediately when the button is pressed. When RTCLICKMENU is set to '0' the behavior is identical to AutoCAD R14.