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Skill code to toggle EIP (Edit in place)

zeroskills

Hi All,

I always use EIP (edit in place) and would like to have a toggle to turn it off and on, could you help me with a skill code. I would like to assign it to a bindkey - "alt+x". pressing "alt+x" will turn on or off EIP.

 

Thanks. 

  • I'm assuming you are talking about the EIP surround option on the Display Options form. If so, then this is all you need:

    procedure(toggleEipSurround()
        let(((win hiGetCurrentWindow()))
           if(win->drawSurroundingOn
                win->drawSurroundingOn=nil
                win->drawSurroundingOn=t
           )
        ) ;let
    ) ;proc

  • That was quick. was it a default skill code or it was just that easy?

    Anyway, Thanks for help. 

  • Hi,

    I will add to what Derek said.  If you are talking about the default "x" bindkey which performs Edit-In-Place, then the default Shift-B bindkey should perform a return operation.

    Regards,

    Lawrence.

  • Hi zeroskills,

    What does "turning EIP on or off" mean? Edit in Place is an action you take - you edit in place, select a location, and it descends to that point. I don't see that there's anything to turn on or off?

    Perhaps you mean toggling the display of the EIP surround? (As on the Options->Display form). If so, the trick would be to look at:

    hiGetCurrentWindow()~>?

    Figure out the relevant property name (I can't check because I'm sending this from a PDA in an airport), and then your bindkey would be:

    hiGetCurrentWindow()~>thePropName=!hiGetCurrentWindow()~>thePropName

    Where "thePropName" is whatever it is called.

    But of course this is guesswork - you may be asking a different question!

    Regards,

    Andrew
  • Thanks to Derek for identifying the property name (my previous reply explained how to figure it out yourself).

    That said, defining a function is overkill for this, as:

    hiGetCurrentWindow()~>drawSurroundingOn=!hiGetCurrentWindow()~>drawSurroundingOn

    Would be sufficient.

    Andrew

  • Derek's code is all i need, just toggling EIP from on to off and vice versa. i had a similar one but the if statement is a hit and miss, and there's a condition to satisfy like if M0 drawing is present, do the EIP - off else -on.

    But the code above is fine.

    Thanks for the help.

  • What do you mean by "default SKILL code?"

    Andrew

  • Hi Andrew ,

    is  this what you meant?

     

    procedure(drawSurroundingOn()

    hiGetCurrentWindow()~>drawSurroundingOn=!hiGetCurrentWindow()~>drawSurroundingOn


    ) ;proc

    hiSetBindKey( "Layout" "Alt<Key>c" "drawSurroundingOn()")
     
    i thought there's a default skill code for toggling edit in place (eip). my current skill code wasn't working properly so i have to do it in the display option's window (e)

  • Sort of, but you don't really need to define the procedure. Just doing this would be enough:

    hiSetBindKey( "Layout" "Alt<Key>c" "hiGetCurrentWindow()~>drawSurroundingOn=!hiGetCurrentWindow()~>drawSurroundingOn")

    There's no built in function to do this toggling (if that's what you meant by "default") because it's such a simple expression to do it.

    Regards,

    Andrew

  • I guess you're right, since i had a skill code for it so there wasn't a really a default one in the first place. i was just checking in case there was and didn't even knew it.

    Thanks for all you're codes and helping me again.

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