I'm not sure whether this better belongs in the Microstation or Road and Site. (Because more important than the base Microstation commands, I want to focus on better access to OpenRoads tools.)
We all know that Microstation allows the use of keyins, but it isn't always obvious what the keyin should yield that tool. Why should we care? We have icons! But here's one reason: because no everyone is working with the same interface, but the keyin is the same for all Microstation users. If your instruction set calls for constructing a line perpendicular to a curve, tangent to another, using a certain set of options in the tool, that could be incorporated into your instructions using a keyin.
Perhaps with a little more familiarity I could have a better understanding of what I can expect the key-in to be for a tool, but I find that at this point, it is far from intuitive. What key-in is used to station a Civil Element? What key-in will allow me to Append Element?
What I'm suggesting is that when you're using a tool, whether through a button in your interface or a key-in, when you're satisfied with the settings, you might click on a button within the tool settings. That button will show you the key-in.
This feature would allow us to better communicate with others without saying "click on the little icon that has a red squiggly line with tick marks to the left but not the one that has a perpendicular line to the bottom left" or going through the tedious task of uploading a screenshot.
This feature would also allow us to better understand what tools are available to us to know better how to solve our problem.
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You can look up the command key-in from the workspace customize dialog "Workspace\Customize\Tools\Application Tools\CivilCommands.dgnlib\Start Station", or record a vba macro to reveal what key-in was used to instruct microstation to activate a command. The VBA will reveal "DMSG ACTIVATETOOLBYPATH Geometry Tools\Start Station" instead of "GEOMETRY STATION STARTING". This is good for mapping to function keys, but they aren't very friendly to actually keyin.
Thanks.
In the spirit of my original thought--and since I had to look elsewhere for the dialog as I don't have Workspace > Customize--the key-in to get to the screen you've mentioned is 'Customize Dialog'.
Derek, you might be interested in http://communities.bentley.com/communities/other_communities/askinga/w/askinga/understanding-the-alias-manager.