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input when the button is clicked. This occurs only for the first backslash in

the command; if the item contains no backslashes, the crosshairs coordinate

is not used. Consider the following commands:

line

line\

The first button starts the LINE command and displays the Specify First Point

prompt in the normal fashion. The second button also starts the LINE

command, but the program uses the current crosshairs location at the Specify

First Point prompt and displays the Specify Next Point prompt.

Quick Reference

Commands

CUI

Manages the customized user interface elements in the product.

Legacy Interface Elements

The term “legacy” refers to those user interface elements that are not

commonly used with the current version of the program, but are still supported

because some users prefer them to alternative user interface elements that are

now provided.

Create Tablet Menus

You can configure up to four areas of your digitizing tablet as menu areas for

command input.

The nodes in the Customize User Interface (CUI) Editor are labeled Tablet

Menu 1 through Tablet Menu 4 and define the macros associated with tablet

selections.

The tablet menu areas that you define with the Cfg option of the TABLET

command are divided into equal-sized menu selection boxes, which are

determined by the number of columns and rows you specify in each area.

These tablet menu selection boxes correspond directly with the lines that

follow the Tablet section labels from left to right and top to bottom (whether

or not they contain text).

For example, if you configure a menu area for five columns and four rows,

the command on the line immediately following the Row label corresponds

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