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Creating Menu's - Page III.
Before loading the following menu, you should really un-load any
of the test menu's that you still have loaded. If you don't, you just
might run out of space on your menu bar.
O.K, I see you're back. Now load the following menu file :
***MENUGROUP=TEST3 ***POP1 P1-1[&Test Menu 3] P1-2[&Layer 2 On]^C^CLayer;M;2;; //menu item P1-3[--] //divider P1-4[&Ortho On/Off]^C^C^O //menu item P1-5[--] //divider P1-6[->&Change] //submenu label P1-7[->C&hange Layer] //submenu label P1-8[Change to Layer 1]^C^CChange;\;P;LA;1;; //submenu items P1-9[Change to Layer 2]^C^CChange;\;P;LA;2;; P1-10[Change to Layer 3]^C^CChange;\;P;LA;3;; P1-11[<-Change to Layer 4]^C^CChange;\;P;LA;4;; //submenu terminator P1-12[->Ch&ange Colour] //submenu label P1-13[Change to Colour 3]^C^CChange;\;P;C;1;; //submenu items P1-14[Change to Colour 3]^C^CChange;\;P;C;2;; P1-15[Change to Colour 3]^C^CChange;\;P;C;3;; P1-16[<-<-Change to Colour 4]^C^CChange;\;P;C;4;; //submenu terminator P1-17[--] //divider P1-18[&Kenny](alert "Kenny is Handsome") //menu item
Your menu, hopefully, should look like this :
Right, enough of pull-downs for the meantime. Let's now have a
look at Image Menu's.
Firstly, we need to create a couple of slides to display in our image menu.
Let's create some slides named D1 to D8, DDOOR and HDDOOR.
You can create these slides yourself using any object that you wish,
as long as they are named as stated. (I need the server space and drawing
files are rather big.)
Now we need to create a file library as a container for these slides.
Locate the Slidelib.exe function. It is normally in your Acad Support
directory. Copy it to the same directory as your slides.
Now create a text file named Slidelist.LST and in it, make a list of
all the slide names. (Remember to check spelling and case.)
D1
D2
D3
D4
D5
D6
D7
D8
DDOOR
HDDOOR
Make sure that this file is also in the same directory as the slides.
Now go to DOS. (Remember that 'black' place?)
At the DOS prompt find your way to the directory where your slides, Slidelib.exe
and Slidelist.LST are located.
Type :
slidelib DOORS < Slidelist.LST then ENTER.If you have done everything correct, DOORS.SLB should be created.
Next, we need to add an Image section to our menu file :
***MENUGROUP=TEST4 ***POP1 P1_1[&Test Menu 4] P1_2[&Layer 2 On]^C^CLayer;M;2;; P1_3[--] P1_4[&Ortho On/Off]^C^C^O P1_5[--] P1_6[->&Change] P1_7[->C&hange Layer] P1_8[Change to Layer 1]^C^CChange;\;P;LA;1;; P1_9[Change to Layer 2]^C^CChange;\;P;LA;2;; P1_10[Change to Layer 3]^C^CChange;\;P;LA;3;; P1_11[<-Change to Layer 4]^C^CChange;\;P;LA;4;; P1_12[->Ch&ange Colour] P1_13[Change to Colour 3]^C^CChange;\;P;C;1;; P1_14[Change to Colour 3]^C^CChange;\;P;C;2;; P1_15[Change to Colour 3]^C^CChange;\;P;C;3;; P1_16[<-<-Change to Colour 4]^C^CChange;\;P;C;4;; P1_17[--] P1_18[&Kenny](alert "Kenny is Handsome") P1_19[--] P1_20[Image Menu]^C^C$I=TEST4.DOORS $I=* //calls Image Menu ***IMAGE **DOORS [DOORS Created by Kenny Ramage ] [DOORS(D1,DOOR1)]INSERT;*D1;\;; [DOORS(D2,DOOR2)]INSERT;*D2;\;; [DOORS(D3,DOOR3)]INSERT;*D3;\;; [DOORS(D4,DOOR4)]INSERT;*D4;\;; [DOORS(D5,DOOR5)]INSERT;*D5;\;; [DOORS(D6,DOOR6)]INSERT;*D6;\;; [DOORS(D7,DOOR7)]INSERT;*D7;\;; [DOORS(D8,DOOR8)]INSERT;*D8;\;; [DOORS(DDOOR,DOUBLE DOOR)]INSERT;*DDOOR;\;; [DOORS(HDDOOR,DOOR & HALF)]INSERT;*HDDOOR;\;; [ FITTINGS]$I=KENNY.FITTINGS $I=*
The first line, ***IMAGE, defines the Image section of the menu.
The second line, **DOORS, is the name of the Image section submenu.
The third line is the title of the label that appears at the top.
The following lines get a bit more complicated so, let's dissect them.
[DOORS(D1,DOOR)]INSERT;*D1;\;;
[DOORS is the name of the slide library.
(D1, is the name of the specific slide.
,DOOR1)] is the label that is displayed in the list box.
INSERT;*D1;\;; is the menu macro.
Your Pull Down menu should now look like this :
And your Image menu like this (with different images of course) :
Did you notice the method of calling the image menu?
P1_20[Image Menu]^C^C$I=TEST4.DOORS $I=*
Good, at least someones awake ;-)
Phew...(Wipe's sweat off brow)....Time for a break.
Next we'll move on to Custom Toolbars.
See you on the next page......
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