cleanscreen disables close button

[cslade]

I just loaded 2008. With cleanscreen on, the close "X" button is grayed out and inop. Also, the minimize button which is still operable does not fully minimize AutoCAD. How can I get these buttons operable in cleanscreen mode?

[ReMark]

I don't believe it is possible to do that.

[Squirltech]

I don't believe it is possible to do that.

 

Agreed. Don't know that one.

[cslade]

Another thing that occasionally happens is that the whole pull-down menu bar along the top of the screen becomes inaccessible, also during cleanscreen. In that case, minimizing and then bringing AutoCAD back up on the screen re-establishes the pull-down menu pickability. I'm thinking it's some kind of Windows thing that's unstable with cleanscreen. I hope I can fix it because I really like cleanscreen. If I can't get cleanscreen to work I'll have to start working on stripping toolbars and everything away like I have always had to do for years with every version of AutoCAD. I'm strictly a keyboard/script operator.

[ReMark]

Maybe just getting a bigger monitor would be a better solution and forget cleanscreen.

 

Sorry, but I don't see it as being "some kind of Windows thing that is unstable with cleanscreen...".

 

 

From your AutoCAD Help file re: Cleanscreen.

 

"The screen displays only the menu bar, the Model and layout tabs at the bottom of the drawing, the status bars, and the command line. "

[cslade]

Yes a bigger monitor is always nice, but if I had bought a new monitor every time I had an AutoCAD problem, I would have a room full of them by now. The menu bar displays OK, it's just not pickable. Minimize AutoCAD (with the keyboard), bring it back up, and the pull-down menu bar becomes pickable. But still, the close button remains inop. Maybe it's something they fixed in the next version.

[ReMark]

The suggestion was to gain more real estate so you wouldn't necessarily need to resort to using Cleanscreen.

 

I see you are using a 2008 version. Just to test your theory I opened my 2007 version, drew a circle, invoked Cleanscreen, went to the drop-down menus at the top, clicked on Draw, then Line and it worked. The close button works too. If it wasn't broke in 2007 there was no need to fix it in any version thereafter. Why you are having problems with it I don't know. Maybe you were tweaking something in the CUI and it messed things up. Maybe its a result of a poorly done custom lisp routine. Maybe you got a bad install. You could try the REPAIR option and see if that fixes things.

[cslade]

I figured out what the problem was. I had manually run cleanscreenon and then ran a script containing cleanscreenon. That grayed out the close button. So running cleanscreenon twice is not a good thing on my setup. Running it yet a third time restores the button and pull downs. Thanks for checking things out on 2007, ReMark.

[ReMark]

Well cslade I'm glad you got it figured out before we really started to bang heads over how Cleanscreen works. And thanks for the update. Happy cadding from here on out.

Edited September 1, 2011 by ReMark
corrected typo

[BlackBox]

That IS strange... the oldest version I have is 2009, and running _CleanScreenON any number of times does not have this issue (I usually just Ctrl+0 that beast).

[BlackBox]

Happy cadding from herein out.

 

... Isn't that 'sposed to be "from here on out"?

 

RenderMan

[ReMark]

RM: Why yes it is. Quite observant of you. 20/20 vision?

[BlackBox]

... Actually, yeah - how'd you know? *a little freaked out*

 

Ha, ha - All in good fun. I'm just bored, goin' round opening cans of worms here and there. Don't mind me. LoL

[ReMark]

Maybe you should just give your eyes a rest and go stare out a window.

[BlackBox]

[ReMark]

Winner and new champion......ReMark. The one, the only, the original.

[BlackBox]

ReMark

[cslade]

Yes, and I don't think I fully described my solution here. Actually I seem to be operating in some kind of "cleaner" screen, not cleanscreen now. I stripped out all profiles and workspaces to get AutoCAD back to a raw state. Then when I ran cleanscreen manually, everything was good and I saved a workspace. Now when I bring up AutoCAD, the screen is stripped of toolbars, etc., but still has the very top bar that says AutoCAD 2008 and the lowest bar with all the minimized programs. When I check the setvar, cleanscreen is 0. But whatever is going on, that's clean enough for me. Executing cleanscreen at that point wipes out the good, upper close button. That second lower, grayed out close button remains and the pull downs aren't pickable. I didn't see that was exactly what was happening before (yesterday). One time today one of the dashboards or whatever they are popped up, but when I reselected my workspace, it disappeared again. I seem to be rolling now.

[ReMark]

When it rains it pours. Seems like you don't have to go looking for trouble...it finds you just fine.

 

Maybe you should do a REPAIR and start over from scratch keeping track of all your changes as you go along.