Navigation window in Wildfire

I am sure that this question has been asked before.

Does anybody know of a config option to have the navigation window minimised
as default?

Thanks in advance,


Andy

 

Does anybody know of a config option to have the navigation window
minimised

Tools / Customize Screen ...
On the Browser tab, clear "Expand Browser by default...."

 

Jeff,

Thanks for that, but we have tried that and all it does is stop the browser
deploying, not the navigation bars.

Cheers,

Andy

 

What I had to do was map a key and record the clicks that minimize it.
So now all I do is press f1 and it minimizes it. I asked this question
before check back in the threads no one could find an answer.

 

Thanks, Ron. That might be worth looking into. Thought had occured, but

Maybe I missed something. Is'nt it one click to minimize the navigation
window?
So, is it that much faster hitting the f1 button than it would be to just
click
the window closed? Just what step is it that you are saving?

 

You might be able to take this one step further. I remember seeing
something in the PTC Knowledge Base about customizing Pro/E at startup for
things that no config option exists. I just did some searching and found
the following:

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Using Trail Files to Customize the Pro/ENGINEER Environment Upon Startup

Description
-----------------
This TPI will explain how to use trail files to customize Pro/ENGINEER upon
startup. Often times there are settings the user would like to make
permanent but no config.pro option exists for setting a default. For
instance, it is desired to have the option for "Change color of prohibited"
in the Reference Control dialog box to be checked on by default.

Resolution
-----------------
Open a System shell window and start Pro/ENGINEER from a new directory. Once
Pro/ENGINEER is started a trail file called trail.txt.1 will get written to
the directory. In this example, create a part, and select #Utilities,
#Reference Control, Selection Feedback Settings, and "Change color of
prohibited". Exit the dialog box by selecting #OK and then select #Window,
#Close Window. Select #File, #Erase, #Not Displayed to erase all models from
session. Select #File and #Exit to exit from Pro/ENGINEER.

Edit trail.txt.1 to remove the commands which recorded the exit from
Pro/ENGINEER. The commands to delete will be the following:
~ Select `main_dlg_cur` `MenuBar1` \
1 `File`
~ Close `main_dlg_cur` `MenuBar1`
~ Activate `main_dlg_cur` `File.psh_exit`
! Message Dialog: Question
! : Do you really want to exit?
~ Activate `UI Message Dialog` `yes`

Save the trail.txt.1 and rename it to some name like startup.txt. Move
startup.txt to the <loadpoint>/bin directory. <Loadpoint> refers to where
Pro/ENGINEER is installed.

For NT machines, edit the Properties of the Shortcut to Pro/ENGINEER and
change the Target field to be
<loadpoint>/bin/<command>.bat <loadpoint>/bin/startup.txt

For UNIX machines, edit the .cshrc or .local_cshrc and add the line:
alias proe <loadpoint>/bin/<command> <loadpoint>/bin/startup.txt
Use the command 'proe' to start Pro/ENGINEER.

Pro/ENGINEER will then play the commands in the trail file everytime upon
startup.

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You might be able to start Pro/E, run your mapkey and then follow the above
steps to execute that trail file every time Pro/E starts. I haven't tried
it, but it seems feasible.

Ron

 

You might be able to take this one step further. I remember seeing .....


Thanks, Ron. That might be worth looking into. Thought had occured, but
hadn't taken the time to investigate and you've saved a step. 8~)

 

That was my thought about F1 vs click to close, too, but whatever.... I
was thinking about various and sundry other things that I'd like to have
done when launching. The step saved was finding the article.

 

yeah I know I also stuck a few more to it. f1 closes it, set my views,
names my views and then it maximizes the proe window