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    Default CUI Wizard

    Summary: A CUI Wizard to handle common tasks such as creating a new button, changing an icon, etc.

    Description: I would like AutoCAD to create an optional CUI wizard to handle common tasks.

    How Used: CUI's are hard for many users to manage. If a simple wizard was created to handle common tasks such as add a command button, change icon etc... it would be helpful to almost everyone.

    Feature Affinity: Deployment

    Submitted By: daniel britt on June 2, 2006

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    Thumbs up Re: CUI Wizard

    Good point Daniel,

    Many thing is missing, and not easy to manage.

    see what happend if a menu is loaded and no toolbar is active..
    how can we active one ?

    What happen if we need to activate more than 1 toolbar ?
    do we have to do one by one ?

    Also, I have note that the "workspace" have conflict with "profile".

    I Agree with you Dan.

    Andrea.

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    Default Re: CUI Wizard

    ...or just eliminate the CUI altogether. The CUI was supposed to make menu editing easier for newbies, but it ended up making everything more difficult for everyone.

    I would like to place an average computer literate person (who has never used AutoCAD) in front of AutoCAD 2002 and AutoCAD 2006 and see who can create a toolbar in a partial menu quicker.
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    Default Re: CUI Wizard

    Hey!!!! I like the CUI. I'm the the process of repairing & updating code used in my company, that dates back 12 - 15 years. Having the CUI break it out into nice little segments, having the icons next to the command so i can easily identify the command needig repair, easy to work with, easy to see what as done and how has made the task so much easier

    I'm not saying it's perfect, but it's made it a lot easier for me to update all the lisp routines.

    Mitch Mermel
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    Red face Re: CUI Wizard

    Quote Originally Posted by caddmpm
    ...it's made it a lot easier for me to update all the lisp routines.
    ??
    Lisp routine can be easily update without CUI.
    also,...where's the REAL ***ACCELERATORS key ?

    Why need search the button for edition ?
    What appen if some user have read-only permission on menu folder ?
    See what happen if you unload a specific menu ,save to a workspace and change profile.
    etc...

    Like you say....it's not perfect.
    I have tested many thing....with CUI.

    and for my own....CUI need to be improved.

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    Default Re: CUI Wizard

    Something needs to be done with the CUI.
    How about some streamlining?

    Once I create a new command, I should be able to set it to a
    toolbar without having to jump through a few hoops first.

    The dragging and dropping isn't as easy as it looks.

    Why not select the toolbar first and then add the command directly to it?

    Just one example

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    Default Re: CUI Wizard

    Quote Originally Posted by Robert.Hall
    Just one example
    Another one. Let me add a new command to any menu, not just the main menu.
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    Default Re: CUI Wizard

    How about a simple right click on the toolbar, new button here or a right click on the menu and new menu or new menu item here? This can't be all that difficult to add. Also perhaps doulbe right clicking to change the options for right clicking on that kind of an object.

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    Thumbs up Re: CUI Wizard

    it was a neat concept, but in practice the CUI is appallingly unusable.

    I wonder how it is that Autodesk hasn't added a simple, fast, elegant and reliable menu-editing feature that worked without a hitch in Word seven years ago, and until now never required a fast PC with gigs of memory to do so without crashing repeatedly.

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    Default Re: CUI Wizard

    Quote Originally Posted by cwade
    ... or a right click on the menu and new menu or new menu item here?
    Very good point. I can do this in Firefox (on the Bookmarks toolbar), and Internet Explorer (on the Favorites toolbar), among other programs.

    You should be able to right click on any menu item or toolbar and choose Properties, and be able to edit the properties of that item - without having to wait on a bloated .NET dialog to open.
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