Deleting or renaming default drawing tools?
So, I made another topic recently, about restoring a style's default drawing tools later, if I modify them. That's all well and good, but after getting my answer, I went back and tried to delete one of the default drawtools of the Modern City annual style, only to find that I can't. I assume this is BECAUSE they are the default, i.e. they are what comes with the style, thus they cannot be deleted? I can of course delete any drawtool that I create, just not the ones that came with the style. Alternatively, I could rename the default tools after changing their properties, but there doesn't seem to be a rename option for drawtools.
So, is there any way to either delete or rename drawtools that came with a style? The reason being: as I mentioned in my other thread, I'm making changes to quite a few of them, and in some cases I want to change how they are named so that I can quickly reference which tool is for what purpose after making my changes. But since I can't seem to change the names of the tools, if I want a tool with my own specified name, I need to just create a brand new tool with my custom name... but since I can't delete the default tools either. doing this will have the effect of duplicating the tool. Now I have two of them, one with my modifications and the name I want, and another that is still there only because it can't be deleted. I find having my drawtool list cluttered with many tools I will never use on the map in question to be very annoying.
So, any way to rename or delete the default tools? Thanks!
So, is there any way to either delete or rename drawtools that came with a style? The reason being: as I mentioned in my other thread, I'm making changes to quite a few of them, and in some cases I want to change how they are named so that I can quickly reference which tool is for what purpose after making my changes. But since I can't seem to change the names of the tools, if I want a tool with my own specified name, I need to just create a brand new tool with my custom name... but since I can't delete the default tools either. doing this will have the effect of duplicating the tool. Now I have two of them, one with my modifications and the name I want, and another that is still there only because it can't be deleted. I find having my drawtool list cluttered with many tools I will never use on the map in question to be very annoying.
So, any way to rename or delete the default tools? Thanks!
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- As far as I know, there is no "rename" option for renaming drawing tools directly. You rename them the way you've been doing (listed here for folks who may not know the steps themselves yet).
- Click the All city drawing tools
button.
- Click Advanced>>
- Select a drawing tool.
- Click New (either before or after making changes to the properties).
- Save the tool with a different name. The New button is essentially a "Save As" button.
- I am able to delete every Modern City drawing tool. What happens when you try to delete one of the tools that comes with the style?
Cheers,~Dogtag
I seem to be having another drawtool problem as well all of a sudden (see the thread titled: "Drawing tools going to wrong sheet" ). The timing is odd.
What happens is: I click delete, the "are you sure?" box comes up, I click Yes, and the box kind of blinks, but then the tool is just still there. No error messages or anything, it just doesn't get deleted. But when I delete my own custom-made tools, the tool is removed from the list instantly upon clicking "yes".
Have my drawtools gone haywire?? This is very odd, haha. All help is appreciated!
However, you can delete drawing tools. At the very least, you can delete the ones from the annuals. I created a map using the same issue of the annual Saito S mentioned, and then I proceeded to delete every drawing tool in the style (27 in all) from the Custom drawing tools dialog box.
It appears there's something else going on here, possibly gremlins.
Thanks (again) Loopysue, that's a good suggestion. Then at least my custom tools can all appear at the top of the list. If all else fails, I will do this, in order to keep myself from having to scroll up and down through this huge list of tools every time I need to use on of my custom ones!
Still, knowing that I should be able to delete the default ones makes me want to not give up on trying to figure out why I can't, though... hopefully further brain-storming will help us find the gremlins and get them to shoo.
For whatever it's worth: it's not just the Modern City style. I opened up my country map made in the "Modern Political" style, from the 2010 annual - I can't delete default drawtools there, either. So it seems to be an issue that affects my CC3, regardless of what style is in use. I'm still hoping there is somehow some kind of setting that could be ticked on or off, that is preventing these tools from being deleted...
When I open CC3 normally, without running as admin, my custom tools are back and I can no longer delete the default tools.
So... I guess one solution could be to open the folder where the virtualization has been going, and copy all those drawtools (which include all my custom ones) into the ACTUAL folder in Program Files, thus when I run as Admin, I'll see my custom tools + can delete default tools. I already saved a backup of the original, out-of-the-box Modern City drawtools, and will also create a backup of the current set, which has all the default tools and my custom ones, before I give this a try. Thanks guys!
Cheers,
~Dogtag