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sending tool palettes to customers?

matthew_neesley — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 19:14:50 GMT

I'm sure this has been covered somewhere already, but I can't find it. I am trying to create tool palettes with blocks that I can share with OUTSIDE customers.

Almost every other post about tool palettes I have been reading deals with people sharing info within their own company, which is easy enough since the file location is the same for all, but...

...when I export tool palettes on one machine, then (pretending I'm one of my customers...) re-import them on a different machine, and try dragging the blocks off the palette, I get the message "hey I can't find the block at this location!"

I get it, it makes sense that the program is assuming the block's file is in the exact same file location....so I how do tool palettes get shared from one unique organization to another?? I can't tell my customers to individually update each block on 6 different palettes, that seems pretty amateurish. I have made the changes in the OPTIONS menu under Tool Palette files, etc., but that's not doing anything. What's the workaround here?

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cadffm — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 19:26:11 GMT

Insertion tools of Toolpalettes saves absolut pathes,

So there isn't a way without editing the palette files.

How to:

You can use find&replace in a texteditor.

I wrote a tool for me to do this, but there are no "onboard" features to do this.

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matthew_neesley — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 19:36:11 GMT

ARRRRRRGH that's what I was afraid of. Thanks for the answer.

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matthew_neesley — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 20:17:19 GMT

Where in the .xtp file are you getting the blocks' locations from? I cannto spot ny sort of addresses in there.

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cadffm — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 20:28:32 GMT

XTP is a export package, not the native palette files.

Open your OPTIONS

FILES Tab

you will file the node for Toolpalettes..

Found?

There are one or more pathes

Or just *_toolpalettepath

Open this location in your win explorer, here is the "index catalog" or how do you like to name this.

open the next folder "Palettes" (or? I am not on my PC to check this, sorry)

Inside this folder you fiind *.atc files, these are the palette definitions.

For tests you can open one by EDITOR, bur for search&replace in multiple files, another texteditor is better (search&replace in all files by one step)

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matthew_neesley — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 20:32:03 GMT

Great, thanks for the additional info!