Can the pulldown be changed in Shopbot control program

[bcondon]

I plan to use the custom files to "load" a pattern
and use another custom file to execute the pattern. This allows the
user to get more of a turn key system. The user would use C2 and C3 during system startup.

When you type in C in the control program, a drop down menu drops
and C2 ,c3 are defined plus a bunch of other stuff. I would like to be able
to put

C8 Pattern LOAD program
C9 Pattern Execute program

I could also remove the excess items that they would never use and also
move the customer files so they can not make a mistake by typing c5 and
off it goes!

Thanks
Bob Condon

[Gary Campbell]

Bob...
The text that you place in the first line of the C# file is what is displayed(after an apostrophe). If you want nothing, simply leave an apostrope

[srwtlc]

Bob, you can also make some button icons that represent/link to those custom routines. You can right click on an open area of the toolbar and click "Customize". The process is a bit buggy (Thought that this was fixed a year of more ago, but I see it's still has the same issues), so you may have to close/open SB3 and go back into it to edit the button image as sometimes the edit tools are greyed out. After you make a new toolbar and drag a command out to it, right click the new button to edit it.

Here's a quick sample of a couple of buttons for cut circle and cut rectangle.

These buttons can then be clicked with the mouse if the customer is more of a mouser. ;)

Scott

[ken_rychlik]

Be carefull about custom stuff for a new user. One upgrade and he will be lost.

[adrianm]

The new ShopBotEASY interface in the latest beta might be of interest if you're wanting to keep people away from the complexity of the main interface and just run files.

Also the Runner program in the Developer Tools folder is along similiar lines.

[bcondon]

Thanks everyone...I don't have enough mornings to go play!

Ken, the customer does not have computer or shopbot skills so
I expect that he will have me do the upgrades... I will also document
what I did because you are correct that one upgrade could wipe him out...

I could also build a "post upgrade" install disk because I am only chaning a dozen files...

Thanks!

Bob

[bcondon]

Perfect fix!