how to edit the am_customize file?

[Wolfgang]

regarding load font:

He Steve,

you are a beginner, that' ok..

Did you heard of the "RECORDER".. goto:
<sddir>help/common/goodies/Readme.html

it's a useful tool..

activate it, start recording
goto text menu, font load, choose font
stop recording

now something like
am_load_font :fontfile "c:/program.... .fnt" complete

is written into the recorder file

a) you can simple include this recorder file into you am_customize file with a (load "filename.rec")

b) just copy and paste the sequence needed
(am_load_font :fontfile "c:/program.... .fnt")


this is the recorded UI sequence you used then

the advantage compared to the (sd-execute-annotator-command... sequence John posted is, that the ranges, where you simple select a font, is than updated, too (e.g. texts, dimensions..)

[Wolfgang]

regarding:
Without an active sheet, it is not possible to create views.
and
Backslash is a LISP "escape character"

because of the backslash '\' in
(docu::docu-register-frame :ui-name "MILTOPE-A1" :file "c:\formats\a1.mi")
the 'load frame for new sheet' could not find the frame file.. therefore the frame is not loaded.. but without a frame no sheet is created.. without a sheet created you do not have an active sheet (any more).. and then finally the message you saw is displayed.

Just to give you some background, to see the connections from one to the other.

HTH


and finally..
if you like to have your new frames really inside DDM then have a look to
<sddir>\help\common\DesignManagement\Annotation\english\wmam_cust.html
this will help..
But for the moment continue with the customization without DDM.. there are enough things to have fun with

[jlkehn]

I'm having trouble following this; I have v17 and have tried modifying the am_customize and the am_wm_customize. also I have both files in 2 different locations.
programs/cocreate/cocreate modeling 2008/personality/sd_customize/annotation/ &
programs/cocreate/cocreate modeling 17.0/personality/sd_customize/annotation/

also the native file that is in there is a file type "file" and after saving the file it ends up being a "txt" file type. if this is a problem, I don't know how to save/edit that. I'm also using windows 7 opererating system.

it appears that the am_customize file does not have anything in regards to the frames while the am_wm_customize file has references to the frames. I don't see any file location for them in the original file. I have tried putting ";;" in front of them to delete them from the list with no luck.

I also noticed that I have /program files (x86)/cocreate/... I think these are mostly library stuff though, I think.

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