Getting keywords with mouse working and perhaps auto-complete

[namin]

When I use PromptKeywordOptions and then Editor.GetKeywords
I cannot select the options using the mouse in AutoCAD (it just doesn't do anything if I select one of my keyword with the mouse).
How can I get the mouse menu to work with the keywords?
Alternatively, is there a way to get auto-complete on the keywords?

[Anonymous]

It's difficult to comment without seeing what you have actually tried ...

This may help : http://www.theswamp.org/index.php?topic=8063.0

you'll need to be registered to see the piccys showing the results though
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wrote in message news:5883188@discussion.autodesk.com...
When I use PromptKeywordOptions and then Editor.GetKeywords
I cannot select the options using the mouse in AutoCAD (it just doesn't do
anything if I select one of my keyword with the mouse).
How can I get the mouse menu to work with the keywords?
Alternatively, is there a way to get auto-complete on the keywords?

[namin]

Thanks for your reply and your example.
I did try something similar to what you show.
I also did Editor.GetKeywords(message, keywords)
where keywords is a string[] of all the keywords I want -- I don't want it to be flexible, I want the user to select just one of the given option. However, I find it very inconvenient that with the above, the user has to type the keyword in full: he cannot use tab to auto-complete. The keywords appear in the mouse menu on a right-click, but clicking on any keyword doesn't seem to do anything.

Is there some setting somewhere for the mouse menu to actually do something? AutoCAD's primitives work just fine.

[Anonymous]

without seeing your code I'd be guessing ...

this works for me, as per the attached piccy;
//-------------------------------
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.IO;

using Autodesk.AutoCAD.ApplicationServices;
using Autodesk.AutoCAD.DatabaseServices;
using Autodesk.AutoCAD.EditorInput;
using Autodesk.AutoCAD.Geometry;
using Autodesk.AutoCAD.Runtime;

using AcadApp = Autodesk.AutoCAD.ApplicationServices.Application;
using AcAp = Autodesk.AutoCAD.ApplicationServices;
using AcDb = Autodesk.AutoCAD.DatabaseServices;
using AcEd = Autodesk.AutoCAD.EditorInput;
using AcGe = Autodesk.AutoCAD.Geometry;
using AcRx = Autodesk.AutoCAD.Runtime;

public partial class TestCommands
{
[AcRx.CommandMethod("kwp01")]
public void KeyWordPrompt01()
{
Editor ed = AcadApp.DocumentManager.MdiActiveDocument.Editor;

PromptKeywordOptions prKwOpt = new
PromptKeywordOptions("\nSelect Option");
prKwOpt.Keywords.Add("None");
prKwOpt.Keywords.Add("First");
prKwOpt.Keywords.Add("Second");
prKwOpt.Keywords.Add("Both");

PromptResult prKwOptRes = ed.GetKeywords(prKwOpt);
if (prKwOptRes.Status != PromptStatus.OK)
return;

ed.WriteMessage(prKwOptRes.StringResult.ToString());
}
}

//-------------------------------


wrote in message news:5883174@discussion.autodesk.com...
Thanks for your reply and your example.
I did try something similar to what you show.
I also did Editor.GetKeywords(message, keywords)
where keywords is a string[] of all the keywords I want -- I don't want it
to be flexible, I want the user to select just one of the given option.
However, I find it very inconvenient that with the above, the user has to
type the keyword in full: he cannot use tab to auto-complete. The keywords
appear in the mouse menu on a right-click, but clicking on any keyword
doesn't seem to do anything.

Is there some setting somewhere for the mouse menu to actually do something?
AutoCAD's primitives work just fine.

[namin]

Hi Kerry,

Thanks very much, I figured it out. The keywords have to be capitalized in order for AutoCAD to treat them correctly!

Thanks again.