Customize dialog box

The Customize dialog box allows you to customize the user interface of BricsCAD.

File

Shows a menu to select customization files or import workspaces.

Load main CUI file...: Opens the Select main CUI file dialog box to select a customization file. See the CUILOAD command.

Save main CUI file as...: Opens the Save main CUI file as dialog box to save the current main CUI file.

Note: You can save the main CUI file under a different name to copy the adapted main CUI file.

Load Partial CUI file...: Opens the Choose a customization file dialog box to open a partial CUI file.

Note: See chapter Loading a partial CUI file in Loading and unloading CUI files for a detailed explanation about the partial CUI files.

Create new partial CUI file...: Opens the Create a Customization File dialog box to create an empty CUI file.

Import workspace(s)…: Opens the Choose a Customization File dialog box to load one or more workspaces from another CUI file.

Main customization file

Specifies the CUI file that defines customization of the menu, toolbar, and other elements of the user interface.

Note: Aliases and shell commands are defined in a PGP file.

Browse: Opens the Select main CUI file dialog box to load a different main CUI file.

Search: Searches the Available Tools list for command names.

Tab options

Menus

Adds, edits, moves and deletes menu items.

When right clicking a menu, menu item or submenu in the Menus tab, a context menu opens. See the paragraph Options Within the Context Menu for further explanation.

Note: If you select Append item or Insert item from the context menu, the Add menu item dialog box displays.

Menu Group/Menu/Menu Item/Submenu: Displays the options of the selected menu, submenu, menu item or separator.

Title: Specifies the name that is displayed by the menu, menu item or submenu.

Note: You can prefix a letter with ‘&’ to create an Alt-key shortcut. For example: &Line.

ID: Unique identifier for each Menu item. (The ID is assigned by BricsCAD).

Alias: Defines the aliases of the menu, menu item or submenu. The browse icon opens the ‘Edit Aliases’ dialog box where you can edit, create or delete aliases.

Diesel: Specifies the Diesel code to be employed by the menu, menu item or submenu.

Tool ID: Identifies the menu item to other elements in the CUI file. (The Tool ID is assigned by BricsCAD).

Help: Specifies the help string displayed on the status bar.

Command: Specifies the command(s) or macros.

Image: Specifies the image to display for the menu, menu item or submenu. The browse icon opens the Tool Image dialog box. There are five options to select an image.

Toolbars

Adds, Moves and deletes toolbar items.

When right clicking a toolbar, tool, control, flyout or separator in the Toolbars tab, a context menu opens. See the paragraph Options Within the Context Menu for further explanation.

Note: If you select Append tool or Insert tool from the context menu, the Add tool dialog box displays. For options description see the Add menu item dialog box.

Menu Group/Toolbar (Button): Displays the options of the selected toolbar, tool, control, flyout or separator.

Title: Specifies the name that is displayed by the tooltip.

ID: Unique identifier for each Menu item. (The ID is assigned by BricsCAD).

Alias: Defines the aliases of the selected item. The browse icon opens the ‘Edit Aliases’ dialog box where you can edit, create or delete aliases.

Position

Default Display: Determines whether the selected item will be added to the workspace.

Rows: Specifies the number of rows for an undocked toolbar.

Xval Yval

Specifies the distance in pixels measured from the top left corner of the screen to the toolbar. It applies to undocked toolbars.

The values are taken from the X,Y options of the toolbar as they are set in the Workspace tab.

Diesel: Specifies the Diesel code to be employed by the selected item.

Tool ID: Identifies the toolbar item to other elements in the CUI file. (The Tool ID is assigned by BricsCAD).

Help: Specifies the help string displayed on the status bar.

Command: Specifies the command(s) or macros.

Image: Specifies the image to display for the toolbar button. The browse icon opens the Tool Image dialog box. There are five options to select an image.

Ribbon

Manages the ribbons and/or adds panels to a ribbon tab.

When right clicking a ribbon tab or panel in the Ribbon tab, a context menu opens. See the paragraph Options Within the Context Menu for further explanation.

Note: If you select Add launcher, Insert toggle button or Insert command button from the context menu, the Add ribbon dialog launcher dialog box, Add ribbon toggle button or add ribbon command button displays.

Select available tool: assigns an existing command to the new item. If this option is selected, the other options are grayed out, except for Available tools
Create new tool: assigns a new command/macro to the new item. If this option is selected, Available tools is grayed out.
Toolbox: specifies the toolbox to which to add the new command. You can choose a toolbox in the drop down list
Title : specifies the name of the new tool
Help: specifies the help string displayed on the status bar
Command: specifies the command(s) or macros
Image: specifies the image to display for the new tool. The browse icon opens the Tool Image dialog box. There are five options to select an image
Available tools: selects an existing tool.

Menu Group/Ribbon Tab/Ribbon Panel Reference: Displays the options of the selected ribbon tab or panel.

ID: Identifies the item in the CUI file. (The ID is assigned by BricsCAD).

Collapse: Allows to choose if the panel will collapse automatically or if it will never collapse.

Label: Specifies the name of the ribbon tab or panel.

Title: Specifies the name that is displayed by the selected item.

Key Tip

Keyboard

Assigns different keyboard shortcuts to different commands.

When right clicking a keyboard shortcut in the Keyboard tab, a context menu opens. See the paragraph Options Within the Context Menu for further explanation.

Note: If you select Append shortcut or Insert shortcut from the context menu, the Add keyboard shortcut dialog box displays.

Select available tool: assigns an existing command to the new keyboard shortcut. If this option is selected, the other options are grayed out, except for Available tools
Create new tool: assigns a new command/macro to the shortcut. If this option is selected, Available tools is grayed out.
Toolbox: specifies the toolbox to which to add the new command. You can choose a toolbox in the drop-down list.
Title: specifies the name of the new tool
Help: specifies the help string displayed on the status bar
Command: specifies the command(s) or macros
Image: specifies the image to display for the new tool. The browse icon opens the Tool Image dialog box. There are five options to select an image
Available tools: selects an existing tool.

Menu Group/Keyboard Shortcut: Displays the options of the selected toolbar, tool, control, flyout or separator.

Key: Specifies the used keyboard shortcut.

Tool ID: Identifies the keyboard item to other elements in the CUI file. (The Tool ID is assigned by BricsCAD).

Help: Specifies the help string displayed on the status bar, even though help strings are not displayed by keyboard shortcuts.

Command: Specifies the command(s) to associate with the keyboard shortcut.

Image: Specifies the image to associate with the command, even though images are not used with keyboard shortcuts.

Mouse

Modifies the different actions that are connected to the mouse buttons.

When right clicking a button or button group in the Mouse tab, a context menu opens. See the paragraph Options Within the Context Menu for further explanation.

Note: If you select Append button or Insert button from the context menu, the Add button item dialog box displays.

Alias: Defines the aliases of the selected item. The browse icon opens the ‘Edit Aliases’ dialog box where you can edit, create or delete aliases.

Button: Specifies the used mouse button.

Tool ID: Identifies the menu item to other elements in the CUI file. (The Tool ID is assigned by BricsCAD).

Title: Specifies the name that is displayed by the mouse button.

Help: Specifies the help string displayed on the status bar.

Command: Specifies the command(s) or macros.

Image: Specifies the image to display for the toolbar button. The browse icon opens the Tool Image dialog box. There are five options to select an image.

Tablet

Customizes the tablet options.

When right clicking a button or button group in the Tablet tab, a context menu opens. See the paragraph Options Within the Context Menu for further explanation.

Note: When you choose Append button or Insert button from the context menu, the Add button item dialog box displays.

Menu Group/Button Group

Alias: Defines the aliases of the selected item. The browse icon opens the ‘Edit Aliases’ dialog box where you can edit, create or delete aliases.

Quad

Adds commands to the quad tab or move commands to other tabs.

When right clicking a quad tab or quad button in the Quad tab, a context menu opens. See the paragraph Options Within the Context Menu for further explanation.

Note: If you select Append quad button or Insert from the context menu, the Add quad button dialog box displays.

Select available tool: assigns an existing command to the new quad button. If this option is selected, the other options are grayed out, except for Available tools
Create new tool: assigns a new command/macro to the new quad button. If this option is selected, Available tools is greyed out
Toolbox: specifies the toolbox to which to add the new command. You can choose a toolbox in the drop-down list
Title: specifies the name of the new tool
Help: specifies the help string displayed on the status bar
Command: specifies the command(s) or macros
Image: specifies the image to display for the new tool. The browse icon opens the Tool Image dialog box. There are five options to select an image
Available tools: selects an existing tool

ID: Identifies the Quad item in the CUI file. (The ID is assigned by BricsCAD).

Title: Specifies the name that is displayed by the quad button.

Help: Specifies the help string displayed on the status bar.

Command: Specifies the command(s) or macros related to the quad button.

Image: Specifies the image to display for the toolbar button. The browse icon opens the Tool Image dialog box. There are five options to select an image.

Entity Filter: Specifies which items will be displayed in the Quad, depending on the type of the entity.

Properties: Edits which properties are shown for different kinds of entities.

Note: These properties will only be shown when the ROLLOVERTIPS system variable is ON.

Rollover: Specifies which properties should be displayed.

Workspaces

Controls which menu tabs are visible in different workspaces.

When right clicking an item in the Workspace tab, a context menu opens. See the paragraph Options Within the Context Menu for further explanation.

Command Aliases

Customize aliases and add them to different commands.

When right clicking an item in the Command Aliases tab, a context menu opens. See the paragraph Options Within the Context Menu for further explanation.

Note: If you select Add alias or Edit alias from the context menu, the Add alias or edit alias dialog box displays where you can add or edit an alias.

Alias: Specifies the name of the alias, a command abbreviation.

Note: The list of Aliases and commands will be ordered alphabetically according to the aliases when you click on Alias.

Command: Specifies the command to which the alias is assigned.

Note: The list of Aliases and commands will be ordered alphabetically according to the commands when you click on Command.

Add: Adds an alias.

Edit: Edits the selected alias.

Delete: Deletes the selected alias.

Commands: Lists all the available commands to add an alias to.

Shell Commands

Create and edit shell commands. Shell commands run programs external to BricsCAD.

When right clicking an item in the Command Aliases tab, a context menu opens. See the paragraph Options Within the Context Menu for further explanation.

Note: If you select Add shell command or Edit shell command from the context menu, the Add shell command or edit shell command dialog box displays where you can add or edit a shell command.

Alias: Specifies the name of the shell command; this is the command you enter at the ' : ' prompt.

Shell Command

Specifies the operating system command to execute, or program to run.

To run a program, use the Start prefix, as in Start Notepad.exe.

Flags

Determines how the shell command operates:

Don’t wait: BricsCAD immediately returns to the command prompt without waiting for the application to finish
Minimized: the application runs minimized
Hidden: the application does not appear on the screen
Quotes: the shell command uses quotations when the command string uses spaces, such as C:\cad programs\file name.exe

Prompt: Specifies the prompt to display in the Command line, for example: “Enter file to edit:”

Add: Adds a shell command through a dialog box.

Edit: Edits the shell command through a dialog box.

Delete: Deletes the selected shell command. Gives a warning where you can confirm you to delete the selected item.

Options Within the Context Menu

Append …: Adds the mentioned item below the last item.

Insert ...: Adds the mentioned item above the selected item.

Add …: Adds the mentioned item in alphabetical order.

Delete ...: Deletes the menu, submenu, item or separator selected item. Gives a warning where you can confirm you to delete the selected item.

Manage your customizations

Displays the Manage Customizations dialog box for confirming and reversing changes made to the user interface.