MicroStation V8i remapping mouse buttons help

Hi, there have been some older threads about this topic but the ones that I've read do not address the issue of the remapping being temporary so I'm looking for some help.

We run MicroStation V8i on Dell computers, with their basic mouse set-up, Windows 7, and I don’t have Admin privileges. When I go through the remapping dialogue it allows me to remap my mouse buttons as it's been explained in previous posts but unfortunately it’s not permanent. Each time I close out that particular drawing and reopen it I have to remap the mouse again.

I learned CAD in school with AutoCAD Civil 3d so I’m adjusting to MicroStation, I thought that mapping my mouse would be for the MicroStation software not just a particular dgn file. I’ve even clicked “Save Setting” to see if that would make my remapping permanent but that has not worked either.

If you have any suggestions I’d sure appreciate it, the forums all give the same answer about remapping but do not address that it’s just temporary or specific to that dgn.

Thank you,

Greg

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  • There is a file called default.btnmenu or similar

    but when you open the button menu you can do save as and put your name as part of the file name and it doesnt have to be in the default folder but put it in one you have permission to save in like c:\user\mstnstuff\user.btnmenu

    then open the workspace configuration and tell mstn to look at your new file not the default one.. works for all my  users at work.....

    Lorys

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  • In Workspace >Users there's only one User and it's the head of my department, who is many people above me. I'll try and contact him with your suggestions. Thank you for everyone's help, I'll post back if/when I get an answer.

  • I'm in the same boat as Greg - my org has customization locked when using a setup designed for our clients' cad standards. My dgnlib loads when using these setups, so I get my custom toolbars, but not the fkey and button menus.

    I'd like to do as Lorys suggests and use a macro to load my own menus, but assign it to a toolbar button rather than a function key. I have found the key-in for loading an fkey menu (AM=[filename],FK) but I can't find a key-in to load a button menu. Can anyone help?

  • I recorded a macro to see what the manual method does and it seems that

    a send command  below is what will load the different menus..

    ATTACH MENU C:\Bentley ss3\WorkSpace\Interfaces\Buttons\default.btnmenu,BM

    or AM=name,BM

    but I can use different menus but not the tentative change to middle ie remap so if I change Alt  left to mena another action and save it to new.btnmenu it works but not swapping the left and right cord for tentative as centre mouse...

    The cord setting v's middle mouse remapping must be use upf setting because it doesnt associate it in the buttomn menu I looked inside it with note pad and nomention there of the cord or middle = tentative...

    here is what I got from Basic macro

    ' Start a command
    MbeSendCommand "DIALOG BUTTONMAP "

    ' When a command brings up a modal dialog,
    ' a later statement must close the dialog,
    ' or the MbeState.modalDialogByUser property
    ' should be set to 1 so that the user must close
    ' the dialog when the macro is executed.
    ' Also, you may not use the debugger "Step"
    ' commands while a modal dialog is displayed.

    ' Opened modal dialog "Button Assignments: ...\WorkSpace\Interfaces\Buttons\two.btnmenu"

    ' Opened modal dialog "Select Button Menu"

    MbeSendCommand "MDL COMMAND MGDSHOOK,fileList_setDirectoryCmd C:\Bentley ss3\WorkSpace\Interfaces\Buttons\"

    MbeSendCommand "MDL COMMAND MGDSHOOK,fileList_setFileNameCmd default.btnmenu"

    ' Closed modal dialog "Select Button Menu"

    ' Following comment is the command to close a modal dialog
    ' MbeSendCommand "MBE1 CLOSEMODAL OK"

    MbeSendCommand "ATTACH MENU C:\Bentley ss3\WorkSpace\Interfaces\Buttons\default.btnmenu,BM"

    ' Closed modal dialog "Button Assignments: ...\WorkSpace\Interfaces\Buttons\default.btnmenu"
    ' MbeSendCommand "MBE1 CLOSEMODAL OK"
    End Sub

    Lorys

    Started msnt work 1990 - Retired  Nov 2022 ( oh boy am I old )

    But was long time user V8iss10 (8.11.09.919) dabbler CE  update 16 (10.16.00.80) 

    MicroStation user since 1990 Melbourne Australia.
    click link to PM me 

  • Thanks Lorys, the key-in you listed worked, so I don't need the Basic macro. I like being able to code as much as possible directly into a toolbar button, so I don't have to worry about external files possibly not loading.

    I come from an AutoCAD background, so I like using my middle button for drag panning. I hate the left/right chord and don't use it. I use a mouse with forward/back keys on the side, which I have mapped to Tentative, and use the Alt with them to zoom previous/next.

    My button menu looks like this:

    • 200 10,match attributes fromcursor = Alt-Data
    • 203 8,inputmanager menu main = Ctrl-Reset
    • 203 c,inputmanager currenttask = Ctrl-Shift-Reset
    • 203 4,inputmanager menu viewpopup = Shift-Reset
    • 203 10,select elements = Alt-Reset
    • 204 0,pan drag = Middle/Xbutton1
    • 205 0,buttonaction tentative = Back/Xbutton3
    • 205 10,view previous = Alt-Back/Xbutton3
    • 206 0,buttonaction tentative = Forward/Xbutton2
    • 206 10,view next = Alt-Forward/Xbutton2
  • I listed the macro to show how I found the keyin and also if you needed to run the macro from an F it works too...instead of toolbar.. I prefer F keys to custom tool bars I ahve almost used up all the comination F key so I made a paper overlay with colours to label what all my F keys do and the combos with shf, alt and control...

    Lorys

    Started msnt work 1990 - Retired  Nov 2022 ( oh boy am I old )

    But was long time user V8iss10 (8.11.09.919) dabbler CE  update 16 (10.16.00.80) 

    MicroStation user since 1990 Melbourne Australia.
    click link to PM me 

  • I like using F keys as well, but in this particular situation, the toolbar button works better. My custom toolbars load when I open Ustn with one of these crazy setups, but F-keys and buttons do not. My goal with this was to create a toolbar button that would auto load my F-key and button menus with a single click. Which, thanks to your help with the key-in, I was able to do.

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  • I like using F keys as well, but in this particular situation, the toolbar button works better. My custom toolbars load when I open Ustn with one of these crazy setups, but F-keys and buttons do not. My goal with this was to create a toolbar button that would auto load my F-key and button menus with a single click. Which, thanks to your help with the key-in, I was able to do.

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