Boris,
That was my take on your question and it can be done eaasily.
Tab or Shift Tab need to be used to avoid adding actual Tabs in the text field which would happen on the Prefix/Postfix area.
You can create a mapkey with inserted Pauses and messages like "Enter Prefix text" [Resume]
And do the Right Click or AppsKey and Tab or Alt key kb commands inserted between to have mapkey perform the highlighting cells where text is placed.
If you have 5 holes aligned along horizontal direction and need a 5X - 1.5" etc not (&view_scale X)
1: Choose the quick key code DET for DimEditText or another "mnemonic"
2: First thing to do in your mapkey record is to Insert a pause at the beginning prompting a user to select a dim to modify the attached text for.
(This will allow the mapkey to work whether or not a dimension is preselected.)
3: To allow the dim/dims to be preselected have the pause message say hit Resume if you already have dimensions selected.
(It will also allow the mapkey to not error out if nothing is selected) the PTC record tool may sometimes prevent pauses at certain points and will not record CTRL+X.cut C.copy or V.paste
After entering pause message you may continue recording your mapkey
by hitting the Resume button which is shown when mapkey recording is paused.
4: For Instance RightClick+r activates p&roperties in RClick pop-up menu
5: I believe the sequence involves hitting Tab 7times to go from the dimID box to the Top first Tab.
Hit Right Arrow once to get to the prefix postfix portion of the dialog and Shift+Tab a number of times 9 I believe,
to highlight the Prefix or Postfix text box.
You can add pause promts as recording to break mapkey into steps for Prefix or Postfix text or even type a Value and Use Shift Home or End to highlight default text which user can hit Delete to remove and to add the postfix. You may also have a pause Resume to Exit the dialog or just have users click OK button to finish or cancel to quit out in middle of mapkey.
Michael
- example posted below replace "
" with "; \" w/o spaces to indicate mapkey continuation on next line
(Proe Creo are not familiar with emoticons I guess PTC doesn't want mapkeys to be shared)
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mapkey dte @MAPKEY_NAMESeries Mapkey with Pauses \nto modify Prefixk Postfix \
mapkey(continued) lines ;@MAPKEY_LABELDimTextEdit;\
mapkey(continued) ~ Timer `UI Desktop` `UI Desktop` `popupMenuRMBTimerCB`;\
mapkey(continued) ~ Close `rmb_popup` `PopupMenu`;\
mapkey(continued) @MANUAL_PAUSE>Please Select Dimension to Add/Edit\n\# PL TYP or 3X before or \
mapkey(continued) after dim;~ Activate `main_dlg_cur` `page_Annotate_control_btn`1
mapkey(continued) ~ Timer `UI Desktop` `UI Desktop` `popupMenuRMBTimerCB`;\
mapkey(continued) ~ Command `ProCmdEditProperties`
mapkey(continued) ~ FocusIn `mod_dim_new_asynch` `inp_num_dig`;\
mapkey(continued) @MANUAL_PAUSE>2: Enter text to change Dim ID d#??\nor hit [Resume to \
mapkey(continued) enter prefix data];~ Select `mod_dim_new_asynch` `tab_main`1 `lay_display`;\
mapkey(continued) ~ FocusIn `mod_dim_new_asynch` `inp_dim_prefix`;\
mapkey(continued) ~ FocusOut `mod_dim_new_asynch` `inp_dim_prefix`;\
mapkey(continued) @MANUAL_PAUSE>3: Enter Prefix\nHit Resume when done or \nHit Resume to \
mapkey(continued) skip continue to Postfix\nor finish on your own by hitting cancel;\
mapkey(continued) ~ FocusIn `mod_dim_new_asynch` `inp_dim_postfix`;\
mapkey(continued) ~ FocusOut `mod_dim_new_asynch` `inp_dim_postfix`;\
mapkey(continued) @MANUAL_PAUSE>4:Enter Postfix text \nTYP #PL See Note #;\
mapkey(continued) ~ FocusIn `mod_dim_new_asynch` `inp_dim_postfix`;\
mapkey(continued) ~ FocusOut `mod_dim_new_asynch` `inp_dim_postfix`;\
mapkey(continued) ~ Activate `mod_dim_new_asynch` `psh_ok`;
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not all of the FocusOut lines are needed for mapkey to work but they don't hurt anything but mapkey length in # of lines
Another sugestion is to keep a separate file as allmapkeys.pro and store all your mapkeys to that fileso they can be loaded at any time or on any other computer you may be on. Flash Drives are an ideal place to store your config settings so you can load them anywhere you go.