topic Re: Right click palette in Modeling

Right click palette

Tom Krowka — Tue, 23 May 2023 15:25:01 GMT

Is there any way to customize the command selection in the menu box you get when you right click on an object?

Re: Right click palette

Anonymous — Tue, 09 Nov 2004 23:50:28 GMT

It would be really great to be able to customize the right click menus. We requested this feature sometime in the last year. I wonder if the developers have it on their list of things to do?

John

Re: Right click palette

Karl Ottenstein — Wed, 10 Nov 2004 01:16:32 GMT

I hesitate to report this, but I noticed that there is a registry entry that enables the context menus in the Work Environment dialog. I enabled the option, took a look - saw some mysterious double-entries that made me fear that I would mess up a feature that I don't have a problem with - and so turned the registry option back off.

I'm sure that if this was 'ready for prime time', GS would have told us about it. I suppose you could back everything up and give it a go at your own risk...

"Chicken" Karl

Re: Right click palette

Anonymous — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 09:35:02 GMT

NIce idea - have to make it a poll!

The predefined commands in the right-click pallette are so commonly used that I already have shortcuts for them. It has always been faster for me to use shortcuts than right-clicking. So a customizable pallette would be a step in the right direction for organising our working environment

Re: Right click palette

Link — Mon, 22 Nov 2004 17:05:23 GMT

Yes you can modify the context menus. But as Karl has found, it isn't as clear or as customizable as you'd think. I have modified some of mine, but it took a while to figure out which was which, and then I couldn't include everything I wanted.

Anyway, here's how you do it:

Windows:

Edit the registry (Start>Run>Regedit):

My Computer\ HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ Software\ Graphisoft\ ArchiCAD\ ArchiCAD 9.0.0 USA R1\ WorkEnvironment

Change 'ShowContextMenuTabPage' value to 1

Mac:

Open the com.graphisoft.AC 9.0.0 USA v1.plist in [user's home folder]/Library/Preferences folder with your favorite text editor, and after the <key>ShowContextMenuTabPage</key> element change the </false> value to </true>

Then you will see the Context Menus appear in your Options>Work Environment dialog, under Command Schemes. The above methods can also be achieved for PlotMaker, but as always it is a good idea to back up your registry before making any changes to it.

Cheers,
Link.

Re: Right click palette

Tom Krowka — Mon, 22 Nov 2004 17:56:34 GMT

Thanks for the tip. I'm going to try it out.

Re: Right click palette

Anonymous — Tue, 21 Dec 2004 03:48:06 GMT

I've tested this and it works fine. (so far)

Re: Right click palette

Anonymous — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 20:58:41 GMT

Any changes in AC 10?

I like the true line weight toggle, but think the Move and Display order sub-menus are a pain. I'd like to move them to the surface.

But as noted here, I didn't see anything obvious in the Work Environment to modify...

Any comments?

Thanks.

Nathan Brauer

Re: Right click palette

Electric Flute — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 22:29:27 GMT

I also would like to know how to do it with AC10.
Even after modifying registry, my current context menus aren't listed in the Working Environment to edit them.

Strange... since doing it in AC9 was so easy.

Re: Right click palette

Link — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 07:37:56 GMT

But as noted here, I didn't see anything obvious in the Work Environment to modify...

Any comments?

You need to edit the Edit menu, under Command Layout Schemes>Menus. Unfortunately there's no easy way (AFAIK) to move everything in a sub-menu into the main menu in one go, so you need to remove and re-add each item individually.

I also would like to know how to do it with AC10.
Even after modifying registry, my current context menus aren't listed in the Working Environment to edit them.

Strange... since doing it in AC9 was so easy.

Should be the same. I wouldn't fret though, because it's still not easy to tell what you are editing AFAIS.

Cheers,
Link.

Re: Right click palette

Anonymous — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 13:44:14 GMT

Link,

Thanks, but you are refering to the main Edit menu. I'd like to modify to right-mouse-click (RMC? menu.

Do I understand correctly this is registry rewriting?

-Nathan

Re: Right click palette

Link — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 14:41:46 GMT

Link,

Thanks, but you are refering to the main Edit menu. I'd like to modify to right-mouse-click (RMC? menu.

Do I understand correctly this is registry rewriting?

Sorry. It's a registry hack to make context menus appear in the WE. From there it gets worse.

Cheers,
Link.

Re: Right click palette

Electric Flute — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 01:46:33 GMT

Link wrote:
Should be the same. I wouldn't fret though, because it's still not easy to tell what you are editing AFAIS.

Link,

Working Environments Context Menus aren't the same between AC9 and AC10. Look at the image below and see the difference.
I easily find what Nathan Brauer looks for (marked on red) in AC9. Where is it in AC10?

Cheers

Re: Right click palette

Anonymous — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 07:08:00 GMT

Nathan wrote:
Any changes in AC 10?

I like the true line weight toggle, but think the Move and Display order sub-menus are a pain. I'd like to move them to the surface.

Nathan Brauer

Yes, I agree, same as the right click menu move comands

ok we understand that GS do not want us to modify the right click button But why they modify it worse than AC9
in AC9 I and many users I know uses "drag,multiply,etc" commands in right click menu. In AC 10 GS made it imposible

I OPEN THE POLE LETS VOTE

Re: Right click palette

Link — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 07:54:56 GMT

Link,

Working Environments Context Menus aren't the same between AC9 and AC10. Look at the image below and see the difference.
I easily find what Nathan Brauer looks for (marked on red) in AC9. Where is it in AC10?

Cheers

I don't know what to tell you mate, we can't even create new menus. I guess this is something that GS is either working on or just don't want us to touch.

Cheers,
Link.