Many of the common user
interface elements can be used when recording an action macro.
There
are some elements that you cannot use. The following user interface elements
can be used when recording an action macro:
- Toolbars and Quick Access toolbar
- Pull-down menus and shortcut menus
- Ribbon
- Application menu
- Legacy user interface elements (screen,
icon, and tablet menus)
- Application and drawing status bars
- Properties palette and Quick Properties
palette
- Tool Palettes window
- DesignCenter
User Interface Elements
You Cannot Record
Not all actions preformed
with the Properties palette and Quick Properties palette are recorded.
The following actions are not recorded:
- Property changes made from a dialog box
in the Properties palette or Quick Properties palette.
- Value changes made to the Vertex properties
of 3D faces and polylines with the Properties palette or Quick Properties
palette.
- Actions that do not execute a command
from the status bars.
Not all actions preformed
with the status bar are recorded. Only controls that execute commands
are recorded. The following buttons are recorded from status bar:
- Quick Properties
- Model and layout
- Quick View Layouts (limited to recording
when layouts are switched)
- Pan
- Zoom
- SteeringWheels
- ShowMotion (limited to playing and restoring
views)
- Maximize/Minimize Viewport
- Annotation/Viewport Scale
- Synchronize Annotation/Viewport Scale
- Annotation Visibility
- Automatically Add Scales
- Lock UI
- Clean Screen
Not all actions performed
in DesignCenter are recorded. The following actions are not recorded:
- Inserting blocks from the DC Online tab.
- All actions from shortcut menus except
Attach as Xref and Insert as Block.
- Dragging named objects (such as layers
and linetypes).
Commands
