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Multiple Versions of Your
Function Keys
By Lorys Lea of Yarra Valley
Water, Australia
Featured in ControlAltDelete - www.penbrush.com
Did you know you could have multiple versions of your
Function key menu? Let’s
say you have a bunch of macros, key-ins and so forth
that are specific to some tasks to be carried out
over a long project.
Normally, you would call up
the macros and select them. But since they don’t
always get used, you wouldn’t bother to assign
them to your already crowded F key menu, right? A
trick comes into play here. Draw
up some function key overlays for your keyboard and
make a few blank copies and print them out. Then
open your function key menu (Workspace>Function
Key).
From the “File”
menu, make some function key menus and save them as
MenuX.mnu, MenuY.mnu and MenuZ.mnu, etc.
Now, load your default function
key funckey.mnu. We can now edit from here. Lets use
F1 for this example. For
F1 type in the following: ATTACH MENU menuX.mnu, FK
SHIFT F1- ATTACH MENU menuY.mnu, FK and ALT F1 - ATTACH
MENU menuZ.mnu, FK
Notice that the FK tells the
function key dialog manager that we want a function
key menu to be loaded. Within
each of these function key menus you can set up your
workflow specific function keys, for example, in menuY,
I could set up F1 as wt=0;co=3;ft=1025;tx=3 and F2
as Macro mygrid.bas.
Note: Remember to assign one
F Key to take you back to the original default function
key menu, ATTACH MENU funckey.mnu,FK for example.
Otherwise, you have to use the pull down to reload
the original F key menu.
I would now go and label all
of my keyboard overlays with all the appropriate custom
F key names.
About the author
Lorys Lea has Mechanical drafting stream background
and been using MicroStation since the mid 90's. He
has experience in GIS mapping, survey and civil drafting.
Lorys is currently at Yarra Valley Water. Click here
to contact him.
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