InfoSnap key-ins

INFOSNAP SETTINGS

Use to open or close the main Settings (and Toggles) dialog box

INFOSNAP RESTORESETTINGS

Re-read saved settings from the disk (force loading shrunk dialog boxes if necessary)

INFOSNAP STATEMONITOR

Use to open or close the Current State Monitor dialog box

INFOSNAP MUTE

Use to toggle the Mute setting

INFOSNAP MUTE ON

Use to enable the Mute setting

INFOSNAP MUTE OFF

Use to disable the Mute setting

INFOSNAP COMPLEX

Use to toggle the Complex Components setting

INFOSNAP COMPLEX ON

Use to enable the Complex Components setting (i.e. skip data in complex headers)

INFOSNAP COMPLEX OFF

Use to disable the Complex Components setting (i.e. report data in complex headers)

INFOSNAP POPUPTOGGLE ON #

Enable the visibility of the Toggle-# in InfoSnap popup (obtain Toggle-# via Edit Toggle)

INFOSNAP POPUPTOGGLE OFF #

Disable the visibility of the Toggle-# in InfoSnap popup (obtain Toggle-# via Edit Toggle)

INFOSNAP POPUPTOGGLE ALLON

Enable visibility of all Toggles in InfoSnap popup

INFOSNAP POPUPTOGGLE ALLOFF

Disable visibility of all Toggles in InfoSnap popup

INFOSNAP POPUPMODE

Toggle between Element Info and Model History

INFOSNAP POPUPACTIVATE

The same as Rubber-stamp icon or 'Insert' hotkey

INFOSNAP HOME

The same as 'Home' hotkey

INFOSNAP ASNAPTOGGLE ON #

Enable visibility of the Toggle-# in AccuSnap balloon (obtain Toggle-# via Edit Toggle)

INFOSNAP ASNAPTOGGLE OFF #

Disable visibility of the Toggle-# in AccuSnap balloon (obtain Toggle-# via Edit Toggle)

INFOSNAP ASNAPTOGGLE ALLON

Enable visibility of all Toggles in AccuSnap balloon

INFOSNAP ASNAPTOGGLE ALLOFF

Disable visibility of all Toggles in AccuSnap balloon

INFOSNAP CLIPBOARDTOGGLE ON #

Enable access to Windows Clipboard for the Toggle-# (obtain Toggle-# via Edit Toggle)

INFOSNAP CLIPBOARDTOGGLE OFF #

Disable access to Windows Clipboard for all Toggles in AccuSnap balloon

INFOSNAP CLIPBOARDTOGGLE ALLON

Enable access to Windows Clipboard for all Toggles in AccuSnap balloon

INFOSNAP CLIPBOARDTOGGLE ALLOFF

Disable access to Windows Clipboard for the

INFOSNAP CUT <any text>

<any text> is the text string to be inserted in Windows Clipboard

INFOSNAP NEWDIALOG ActionString

<ActionString> is the text string following the format defined in the DoubleBump settings file. See the notes below (1).

INFOSNAP ZEROANGLE

Use to toggle the 'Report zero-angles' setting

INFOSNAP ZEROANGLE ON

Use to enable the 'Report zero-angles' setting

INFOSNAP ZEROANGLE OFF

Use to disable the 'Report zero-angles' setting

INFOSNAP XROTATION Option

Define rotation angle readout. See the notes below (2).

INFOSNAP SCALE value unit

Where 'value' is any value by which the measured length should be multiplied and where 'unit' is any text string which will be used as the unit name. Note that simply giving the keyin: "INFOSNAP SCALE value unit" will set all three scales described below to the corresponding value.

INFOSNAP LENGTHSCALE value unit

Example: your DGN Settings define 1 millimeter as the Master Unit. You want readout in InfoSnap to be presented in meters instead: INFOSNAP LENGTHSCALE 0.001 m

INFOSNAP AREASCALE value unit

Example: your DGN Settings define 1 millimeter as the Master Unit. You want readout in InfoSnap be presented in squared meters instead: INFOSNAP AREASCALE 0.001 m

INFOSNAP VOLUMESCALE value unit

The description is analogic to AREASCALE and LENGTHSCALE above.

INFOSNAP DECIMALS number

Where 'number' is a number of decimal places in SCALE'd floating point value (i.e. precision). Note that specifying this setting will force InfoSnap to use Master Units for all SCALE'd output.

INFOSNAP AUTOMENU

It toggles (activates / deactivates) a new context-sensitive menu system

INFOSNAP AUTOMENU ON

It activates a new context-sensitive menu system

INFOSNAP AUTOMENU OFF

It deactivates a new context-sensitive menu system

INFOSNAP TOGGLEPOPUP

It has the same effect as pressing Alt+Space keys on the keyboard. Toggles visibility of main popup balloon without changing its position.

INFOSNAP SHOWPOPUP

Brings main popup balloon to current cursor position. Balloon is opened if it was already closed.

INFOSNAP EXCHANGEAUTOMENU path

When issued without optional path parameter, it simply reloads the current AutoMenu settings file.

When issued with path, the environment variable INFOSNAP_AUTOMENU is temporarily set to the new path and the new settings file is loaded. The change is not persistent (i.e. not saved between sessions).

Can be used within AutoMenu settings files to chain several hierarchies of these files.

INFOSNAP SHOWAUTOMENU

Activates AutoMenu popup directly under the cursor! Cursor must be positioned within any view or else this keyin will be cheerfully ignored (the reason for this is assuring the correct operation of SELVIEW keyin)

INFOSNAP ACCUDRAW DISTANCE xxx

INFOSNAP ACCUDRAW ANGLE xxx

INFOSNAP ACCUDRAW X xxx

INFOSNAP ACCUDRAW Y xxx

INFOSNAP ACCUDRAW Z xxx

Keyins for AccuDraw control. They are to be used with Toggles which are giving either length, distance or angle readout (shown as xxx below, but use the % character when redefining Toggles). Example:

Replace default keyin in the "Length" Toggle:

PLACE TEXT; %

with

INFOSNAP ACCUDRAW DISTANCE %

Activating this Toggle will now result in 'Length' being supplied for 'Distance' in AccuDraw switched to angular mode. 'Distance' will be locked in AccuDraw.

INFOSNAP AUTOSWEEP ON

INFOSNAP AUTOSWEEP OFF

Self-explanatory keyins for controlling AutoSweep feature. When INFOSNAP AUTOSWEEP ON is issued and cursor is hovering over drawing area within a view, all dialog boxes intersecting this view will be sweeped off the sight until cursor leaves this area.

INFOSNAP ECHOACCUDRAW ON

INFOSNAP ECHOACCUDRAW OFF

INFOSNAP ECHOACCUDRAW

Self-explanatory keyins for controlling Echo AccuDraw feature.

INFOSNAP VBUDDY1 [option] [Label]

INFOSNAP VBUDDY2 [option] [Label]

Options:

ONSLEEP

ONACTIVATE

RED

YELLOW

GREEN

ACTIVATE

SLEEP

Where:

VBUDDY1, VBUDDY2 - is a trigger selector (defines first or second trigger as a target)

ONSLEEP (state = 0 or FALSE), ONACTIVATE (state = 1 or TRUE) - define which state will activate alarm

RED, YELLOW, GREEN - assigns the light color for this trigger to be used when the alarm is triggered

ACTIVATE - request activate event (i.e. set state to TRUE)

SLEEP - request sleep event (i.e. set state to FALSE)

Example:

In a script composed of keyins to manage backups, you may add the following keyins to trigger a vBuddy alarm when the backup has failed:

; if state will be set to TRUE for VBUDDY2

INFOSNAP VBUDDY2 ONACTIVATE

; use red light

INFOSNAP VBUDDY2 RED

; and set state to TRUE now and tell the user that we have a "Backup Failure!"

INFOSNAP VBUDDY2 ACTIVATE Backup Failure!

And use following keyin when it succeeds:

; set state to FALSE, display green light and set message to "Backup OK"

INFOSNAP VBUDDY2 SLEEP Backup OK