Any time frame for this?
Can someone confirm and expand on the correct use of the variable MS_CIVTOOLSPREFS. How should this be used? As a path variable or as a full filename & path?
I also noticed that the level settings stored in the civtools.rsc file are not used unless the levels exist in the active file/model. Being available in a dgnlib is not sufficient. Is there any chance that this behavior can be enhanced to allow the levels to be loaded, unless the workspace prohibits the creation of levels and the levels are not in the attached dgnlib.
Please check the operation of the tool in files with shifted global origins. I have seen situations where coordinates and/or elevation are not correct when the global origin is not at the Center/Center/Center, default location.
Also, on the Wiki, page, Mark Anderson posted the following: "The logic that we use in CivTools for preferences is to first look for the file civtools.rsc. This file is typiicaly in the Ms_DATA directory. If we find that file we will open it for read write. We check the version number then we read in the values and are done. If the version does not match then we will read defaults. When you unload the application it will save the settings. One other utility function in the application is to dump the settings to a text file. You can use the command "civtools dumpprefs" to get a text file of the settings. If you pass in a file name when you call this command the file will be generated to that name. If not you will be prompted to create a file. The application was not created or intended to use a shared preference file and doing this could cause problems."
The specified keyin "civtools dumpprefs" does not work with the version (8.11.09.04) I have access to.