Palette Auto-hide Speed
Did
you know that you can change the time it takes to show/hide or
roll-up/roll-out the palette windows in AutoCAD, AutoCAD Architecture or other verticals when you
have activated Auto-hide? It is possible
but is not so obvious and easy. Until
now. Here you can
download PaletteAutoHideSpeed.exe
that helps you with this. There is no
install provided since it's only one
file so place it anywhere you want and
run it. If you have different versions
or verticals of AutoCAD you have to open
the one you want to change and close it
before running this application. (If
there are problems to run it from a network location try to place it
locally.) Hoover the mouse over "Tip here" in
the application for a useful tip.
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like this please use PayPal below (takes
major credit cards as well). Pay
what you like. $1, $5 or whatever. If
you want customized plug-ins like this
created for your company please contact
us. For those wanting to know what the application does. Here's what. It locates the file fixedProfile.aws for the last run AutoCAD based application. It then changes the delay time in the file that is in XML format. In ADT 2006 it looks like this as default: < paletterollupdelay="600">< paletterolloutdelay="200"> If you go in there and changes the Roll-up speed it will not work because of a minor spelling error. (Update: This has been corrected in ADT 2007) You also have to change PalleteRollupInfo to PaletteRollupInfo. The spelling error is corrected by the application. In AutoCAD there is no existence of these rows so they have to be added at the correct location. The “holdopen” delay is an additional delay that keeps the palette open
for a specified time when it is opened programmatically; if the mouse does
not move over it in this time it automatically rolls back up. The requirement for the application to run is to have Microsoft .Net Framework v2.0 or later installed. It can be downloaded here. If you don't have it installed you will get a message when trying to start PaletteAutoHideSpeed.exe. We have no plan on supporting older versions of .Net Framework. Compatible with all existing AutoCAD based versions and verticals that uses palettes. Revision History
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