Howdy neighbor (TRO eh?),
To avoid getting those %&$#! smiley faces, I do the following:
1. Create my custom toolbar (usually as part of a custom lisp command that
loads the partial menu).
2. I create the toolbar menu in it's own unique menu group.
3. While building the toolbar, and creating custom BMP or PNG icons, I save
them to a central network folder in support of this custom partial menu.
4. Then edit the MNS file and hardcode the path into the icon names. In
your example, it could be something like changing:
[_Button("TRO Standards(MoPP)", "TRO_Help.BMP",...] to...
[_Button("TRO Standards(MoPP)", "S:/Cad/Menus/Icons/TRO_Help.BMP",.... ]
5. If your partial menu contains just toolbars, your all set. If your menu
contains pulldown (pop) menus in addition to toolbars, to keep them
synchronized, or when I need to make an edit to the text of a pulldown menu,
I will copy and paste the entire ***TOOLBARS portion of the MNS and replace
the ***TOOLBARS section in the MNU so that they are up-to-date, then make my
text edits in the MNU, then delete the MNS, MNC, MNR to recompile them by
calling up the menu again.
--
Mark McDonough
Sasaki Associates
http://www.sasaki.com
"AlmightySR"
wrote in message
news:4840228@discussion.autodesk.com...
I posted this in Customization and VBA but I know that not everyone has all
the groups in their favorites so I'm posting here in the hopes for
information:
I'm willing to bet only autodesk can answer this one(then again...). Here is
the issue.
I created a company tool bar. I made some BMP Icons for the buttons. One of
the icons I was messing around with and made a face. I went ot put it back
the way it was later, and it wouldnt let me. See the attached image. I
un-installed all of ADT 3.3, deleted the directory and re-installed it... it
is still there!! Where the heck is this image file being held!?!?
Here is the men
u file for our tool bar below. I put a ------------> to show
which one is the icon. whats the deal! Please help.
//
// The Ritchie Organization menu file - C:\Program Files\Autodesk
Architectural Desktop 3\Support\tro.mns
//
***MENUGROUP=TRO
***POP1
**TRO
ID_MnTRO [T&RO]
ID_TROButton_10 [TRO &Standards Help]^C^C^P(help "help
"S:/Intranet/doc/Manual of Practice/9997_TRO Manual.chm" ) ^P
ID_TROButton_11 [E-mail .&Geeks](command "start" mailto:help@mail.com)
[--]
ID_TROButton_12 [&Clean and
Audit]^C^Cscript;S:/CADstan/Common/Lisp/Clean_Audit.scr;
ID_TROButton_13 [&Layer State Manager]^C^Clman
[--]
ID_TROButton_14 [&Update TRO Tools](command "start"
"S:/CADstan/Common/Setup/CAD_Update.vbs")
***TOOLBARS
**TRO_TOOLS
**TB_TRO_TOOLS
ID_TRO_Tools_0 [_Toolbar("TRO Tools", _Top, _Show, 2, 2, 1)]
ID_TROButton_0 [_Button("TRO Standards(MoPP)", "TRO_Help.BMP",
"Icon_16_Blank")]^C^C^P(help "S:/Intranet/doc/Manual of Practic
e/9997_TRO
Manual.chm" ) ^P
-----------------> ID_TROButton_1 [_Button("E-mail Geeks about CAD",
"TRO_Geeks.BMP", "Icon_16_Blank")](command "start" mailto:.Help@mail.com)
[--]
ID_TROButton_2 [_Button("Purge, CDGPurge and, Audit", "TRO_CleanUp.bmp",
"Icon_16_Blank")]^C^Cscript;S:/CADstan/Common/Lisp/Clean_Audit.scr;
ID_TROButton_3 [_Button("Layer States Manager", "TRO_LayStateSave.bmp",
"Icon_16_Blank")]^C^Clman
ID_TROButton_4 [_Button("Quick Close", "TRO_QuickClose.
BMP",
"Icon_16_Blank")]^C^Cscript;S:/CADstan/Common/Lisp/QClose.scr;
[--]
ID_TROButton_5 [_Button("Update TRO CAD Tools", "TRO_Update.BMP",
"Icon_16_Blank")](command "start" "S:/CADstan/Common/Setup/CAD_Update.vbs")
***HELPSTRINGS
ID_TROBUTTON_0 [The Manual of Professional Practice contains documentation
on our firms standards. Use this frequently.]
ID_TROBUTTON_1 [This button will open up an E-mail to the TRO geeks. You
can ask them about anything CAD or co
mputer related.]
ID_TROBUTTON_2 [This will Purge all, CDGPurge all except for page setups,
and Audit the document fixing any errors 3 times.]
ID_TROBUTTON_3 [This will start the layer states manager for you.]
ID_TROBUTTON_4 [Quick saves and closes active drawing.]
ID_TROBUTTON_5 [By pressing this button you will start the update for TRO
Tools. This will close CAD and copy the needed files to your computer then
open CAD back up.]
//
// End of The Ritchie Organization me
nu file - C:\Program
Files\Autodesk Architectural Desktop 3\Support\tro.mns
//
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