Unterminated Keyins for Changing Cell Colours

Hi all,
Using V7
I'm trying to simplify the process of changing the colours of some
cells on our drawings. The prosess we're using is to use power
selector to select the cells then change the colours. The reason why I
wanted a unterminated keyin is that different cells are to be
different colours and if the keyin for active colour is unterminated
the user can enter there own colour value. I wanted to use the
following unterminated keyin but it seems as soon as you put a semi
colon in it terminated the keyin.

my keyin is
dialog cmdb;k,active color 4;change color element;choose none

All the drawings were translated into ustn from our old GDS cad
package.
The cell library has been modified but because cells on the drawing
have:
1. different names to the library cell.
2. different origins to the library cell.
I can't do a replace cell.

I'd like to keep it to a keyin if I can, but will accept going to a
macro if needed. I could put the colour as a command line argument to
a macro but I'd like to keep it simple. Any ideas?

Thanks.

 

If the user has to select a color anyway why not let them select it from the
Primary toolbox then run your keyin?

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Regards
Dave Preston


www.cadesignservices.co.uk

 

Try %d between the key ins ie
k,active color 4;%d;change color element;%d;choose none
this usually works for me and waits for the user to make a data point before
going on to next command