Change default behaviour

[dbroada]

I'm using ACADE 2011 but I assume the interface is common. You know that big red A in the top left corner. The one you click to get the MRU list, the one you click twice to shut AutoCAD down? Is there a way to disable the shut down on 2nd click? I quite often click it once, wait for a couple of seconds with nothing happening so click it again only to watch AutoCAD disappear.

[ReMark]

You want to be able to shut down ACADE with a single click?

[dbroada]

no the other way round. I don't want it shutting down when I am too impatient to wait for it to display the MRU file list.

[Dadgad]

Interesting Dave, I never knew that would close it, I knew there is an exit autocad button there.

I looked all through the double click actions and a few other shortcuts and things in the CUI

and I couldn't see any way to change that, nor any indication that it would do that.

[MSasu]

That behaviour is standard to Windows (close a window by double-click on its top-left icon); so I'm not sure if can be disabled from AutoCAD. More something to be controled from operating system.

[ReMark]

I'd do it using a custom lisp routine and a button on the QAT or one of the panels.

[Dadgad]

That behaviour is standard to Windows (close a window by double-click on its top-left icon); so I'm not sure if can be disabled from AutoCAD. More something to be controled from operating system.

 

Good tip there Mircea!

If that is the deal, then you can turn off standard windows double click behavior in the OPTIONS...

 

whoops, spoke too fast, just went to grab a screen shot, and DBLCLKEDIT only affects Windows like

standard behavior within the drawing area.

[dbroada]

That behaviour is standard to Windows (close a window by double-click on its top-left icon);

so I see. I never knew that (and now you are going to tell me its been there since Windows 3.1) but I can now see it does. Why have I always used the cross when I am more often on the other side of the screen.

 

Looks like I will just have to spend more time drinking coffee and less time starting a previous drawing.

[ReMark]

Why not use Alt+F4 to close?

 

Getting too old to double click fast Dave? Drink more coffee. At least 10 cups. You'll be able to double-click so fast you'll swear you're operating at the speed of light!

 

I know of program that will close all open windows with a single click if you're interested. Works with Win7. You can even exclude certain applications from being closed via an exclusion list.

[dbroada]

Why not use Alt+F4 to close?

closing is not the problem. That's easy and marks the end of the day. If I want to pull up the drawing I modified this morning I will use the MRU list. If I accidentally double click and AutoCAD shuts down I'm heading for the door. I had to turn around the other day when I realised I was the only person heading for the car park.

[ReMark]

Drop your coffee intake to one cup a day. This will slow down your reflexes and instead of double-clicking you'll click only once. There's no other way to bring up the MRU list that does not involve clicking?

[MSasu]

Not sure if AutoCAD's .Net API have or not an event for Application Close. If yes, then may add a confirmation dialog to it to confirm/reject the action. You may ask such question into the dedicated sub-forum.

However, I'm not sure if this will not become annoying after a while.

[dbroada]

thanks MSasu. I didn't realise this was a default windows behaviour and had assumed it was something configurable. Its not something I do often enough to spend too long looking but it happened again this morning so I remembered to ask. Think I'll live with it.

 

Now, where is that "solution supplied" button?