How Can I create a menu Using VBA

[Amremad]

How Can I create a menu like file & edit & view using VBA

[Hallex · Accepted solution]

Take a look ath this page

http://www.cad.dp.ua/stats/a_vba/index.php

Choose English language at the very top right in this page , then

scroll down to "AutoCAD Objects" --> "Menus and Toolbars"

[Amremad · Accepted solution]

thank you very much

Dim currMenuGroup As AcadMenuGroup
Set currMenuGroup = ThisDrawing.Application.MenuGroups.Item(0)

 ' Create the new menu
 Dim newMenu As AcadPopupMenu
 Set newMenu = currMenuGroup.Menus.Add("TestMenu")

 ' Add a menu item to the new menu
 Dim newMenuItem As AcadPopupMenuItem
 Dim openMacro As String
 
 ' Assign the macro the VBA equivalent of "ESC ESC _open "
 openMacro = Chr(3) + Chr(3) + "_open "

 Set newMenuItem = newMenu.AddMenuItem(newMenu.Count + 1, "Open", openMacro)

 ' Display the menu on the menu bar
 newMenu.InsertInMenuBar (ThisDrawing.Application.MenuBar.Count + 1)

[jdkriek]

Don't forget error checking 😉

Public Sub AddMenus()
'Jonathan D. Kriek
    Dim currMenuGroup As AcadMenuGroup
    Dim newMenu As AcadPopupMenu
    Dim newMenuItem As AcadPopupMenuItem
    
    Set currMenuGroup = ThisDrawing.Application.MenuGroups.Item(0)
    
    On Error Resume Next
    
    'Assign new menu
    Set newMenu = currMenuGroup.Menus.Item("TrinityTools")
    
        'If menu doesn't exist then add it
        If newMenu Is Nothing Then
            Set newMenu = currMenuGroup.Menus.Add("TrinityTools")
        End If
        
            'Check if Menu is displayed on MenuBar
            If Not newMenu.OnMenuBar Then
        
                'Add the eBLoader macro to the menu
                Set newMenuItem = newMenu.AddMenuItem(newMenu.count + 1, _
                "Release To eB", "-vbarun eBLoader ")
                newMenuItem.HelpString = "Release To eB"
            
                'Add the DrawingTypeLoad macro to the menu
                Set newMenuItem = newMenu.AddMenuItem(newMenu.count + 1, _
                "Set Drawing Type", "-vbarun DrawingTypeLoad ")
                newMenuItem.HelpString = "Set Drawing Type"

                'Display the menu on the menu bar
                newMenu.InsertInMenuBar (ThisDrawing.Application.MenuBar.count + 1)
            End If
            
        'Save menu
        currMenuGroup.Save (acMenuFileCompiled)
End Sub

[Alexander.Rivilis]

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jdkriek wrote:

       'Save menu
        currMenuGroup.Save (acMenuFileCompiled)

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Since AutoCAD 2006 MenuGroup.Save do nothing, so it is impossible save menu created on fly with AutoCAD ActiveX Model.

[jdkriek]

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@Alexander.Rivilis wrote:

Since AutoCAD 2006 MenuGroup.Save do nothing, so it is impossible save menu created on fly with AutoCAD ActiveX Model.

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Ah, yes I forgot about the 2005 to 2006 changes.

Thanks, but the point of my post was error checking.

[Steve8765]

Your code ran but didn't add a new menu, is there anything I'm missing?

I'm using AutoCAD 2016.