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Chief Architect X10 Reference Manual

“Dialog Number/Angle Style Dialog” on
page 137.

Message Boxes
As you work in Chief Architect, the program checkbox. Check this box to prevent
will occasionally prompt you to examine messages of this specific type from
your settings, alert you if you command it to displaying in the future. When this box is
do something that could potentially cause a checked, some options in the message box
problem, or notify you if it encounters a may become inactive.
problem that needs your attention.
To allow all message boxes to display again,
click the Reset Message Boxes button in the
Preferences dialog. See “Reset Options
Panel” on page 136.

Name Prompt

In dialogs throughout the program, there are
Situations where such message boxes may opportunities to create new entities that
display include: require a name. Examples include:
• Closing a file or view without saving; • The Copy button in the Saved Defaults
• Modifying an object that is set to rebuild dialog.
automatically; • The Copy Set button in the Layer
• A file referenced outside the program, Display Options dialog.
such as an image or texture, is missing; • The Rename button in the Schedule
• Creating an object in a space too small to Specification dialog.
contain it. When you click a New, Copy, or Rename
As with dialog boxes, you can access the button in a dialog, a Name Prompt box will
options in a message box using the mouse or open.
navigate them using the keyboard.
A few messages have a Send Report button.
Click this button to send details regarding the
issue that prompted the message to Chief
Architect via the internet.
For best results, type a short, descriptive, and
Some message boxes include a “Remember unique name and then click OK.
my choice” or a “Do not show this again”

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