Command to Turn Status Bar Coordinate Display ON

[Anonymous]

C3D 2022

Due to graphical limitations on my remote desktop display I cannot see the top category of the status bar settings dialog - the one that turns ON/OFF coordinate display on the status bar. Does anyone know a command line entry to toggle this ON/OFF? COORDS is not it.

[pendean]

Screenshots please: show us what you see, point to what you wish to address/fix.

[wfberry]

His problem is that he cannot get to the last icon on the bottom right of the taskbar.

This brings up all the other icons to turn on/off.

Can you temporarily change your screen resolution to get it to appear?

Bill

[Anonymous]

Click the three bars at bottom right of status bar to open the status bar settings. What is the category at the top of the list? My screenshot shows Coordinates, but that switch is hidden behind the border of my remote session and I cannot click it or move the dialog into workable space on the display. I need a command line equivalent, like I hope the OP stated.

[Anonymous]

No, display settings are locked in remote sessions.

[AllenJessup]

Do you mean CTRL + I ? That changes COORDS. Set it to 1.

[Anonymous]

From Help, COORDS controls how the coordinates are displayed:

Set the COORDS system variable to 0 for static display, 1 for dynamic display, or 2 for distance and angle display.

But COORDS does not control whether coordinate display is on or off.

[AllenJessup]

Oops. The only way I can find to change it is in the registry. What I did was export a profile in Options on the Profile tab. Then I went in and changed '"CursorCoordinatesPane"=dword:00000001' to '"CursorCoordinatesPane"=dword:00000000'. That closed the coordinate pane. Then I changed it back to '"CursorCoordinatesPane"=dword:00000001' and it opened. If you prefer you can change it directly in the registry.

[Anonymous]

thanks Allen, I will give that a try! working from home has it's advantages (pajamas) and disadvantages I guess.

[JBerns]

@Anonymous,

Here is some code that will "toggle" the Status Bar, Coords display in the registry.

;;; Toggle the Status Bar Coordinate Display value in the system registry
;;; for the current user and current profile
;;; J. Berns 2021-05-07

(defun C:RegCoordToggle	()
  ;; load Visual LISP
  (vl-load-com)

  ;; set registry path to status bar
  (setq	RegStatBar
	 (strcat
	   "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\"        ;; current user
	   (vlax-user-product-key)      ;; user product key
	   "\\"                         ;; separator
	   (getvar "cprofile")          ;; current profile
	   "\\StatusBar\\Application"   ;; where Coords is managed
	 ) ;_strcat
  ) ;_setq

  ;; toggle the value
  (if (= 0 (vl-registry-read RegStatBar "CursorCoordinatesPane"))
    (progn
      (vl-registry-write RegStatBar "CursorCoordinatesPane" 1)	;; ON
      (princ "\nStatusBar Coords = On")
    ) ;_progn
    (progn
      (vl-registry-write RegStatBar "CursorCoordinatesPane" 0)	;; OFF
      (princ "\nStatusBar Coords = Off")
    ) ;_progn
  ) ;_if
  (princ)
)

However, you must exit and restart AutoCAD. Not much of a toggle I know, but I could not find any other way to "refresh" the status bar. Neither toggling the bar off/on (STATUSBAR) or toggling another option in the status bar menu would "refresh" the bar.

I would welcome feedback or suggestions to avoid the AutoCAD restart.

Regards,

Jerry

[JBerns]

Correction to Line 14. It should be:

	   "\\Profiles\\"               ;; profiles

Unfortunately, still have not found a way to toggle the Status Bar item without an AutoCAD restart.