Change double-click of Attribute to use ATTEDIT instead of EATTEDIT

[tomdillenbeck]

Is there a way to change double clicking on an attribute to the ATTEDIT command rather than the Enhanced Attribute Editor?

The Enhanced Att Editor doesn't allow tabing through the fields and it's a lot of mouse clicking/keyboard interface.

[Glenn Pope]

You can do the same in the enhanced editor. Except you hit enter instead of tab.(at least on mine it doses)

[Mike.Perry]

Hi

Below snippets come from a couple of old ACAD Guild posts that I made -

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Check out the following Technical Document on the Autodesk web site under the Knowledge Base section -

ID: TS69698 - Start ATTEDIT instead of EATTEDIT when inserted block with attributes is double-clicked

Personally would strongly recommend that you don't do the above in the AutoCAD file Acad2000Doc.lsp, instead place the code in a User Maintained file ie

Acad.lsp
AcadDoc.lsp
Custom.mnl
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<snip>
How about setting up two ToolBar Buttons, something like below -

Turns DoubleClick EATTEDIT ON
^C^C(if (and (findfile "AcEattedit.arx") (not (member "aceattedit.arx" (arx) ) ) ) (progn (arxload "AcEattedit") (command "._REDEFINE" "_EATTEDIT")) (command "._REDEFINE" "_EATTEDIT"))

Turns DoubleClick EATTEDIT OFF
^C^C(if (and (findfile "AcEattedit.arx") (not (member "aceattedit.arx" (arx) ) ) ) (progn (arxload "AcEattedit") (command "._UNDEFINE" "_EATTEDIT")) (command "._UNDEFINE" "_EATTEDIT"))

Note - you still need to do the other "stuff" (As OutLined in ID: TS69698) first, the two ToolBar Buttons above just allow you to switch On/Off.

Karl, I was going to go with your answer (.EAttEdit) as it makes sense but I think you will find it doesn't work if EAttEdit has been UnDefined :(

but this will work -

.AcEAttedit.eattedit

Note - the above will only work if AcEattedit.arx is loaded
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Have a good one, Mike