flyouts

I want to make a custom flyout, I've looked at the menu and and help files,
and I'm not sure how to write a lisp to handle this...

Any ideas would be appreciated

Jamie Duncan

Consulting - If you're not part of the solution, there's good money in
prolonging the problem.

 

No lisp required, it's all in the menu macros.

First create a normal toolbar containing the buttons you want in the
flyout -- nothing special about this. Then make another toolbar containing a
flyout, which references that toolbar. (As a side effect of the way this is
done, the user will have the option of using the flyout as a flyout, or
displaying it separately as a normal toolbar.)

Look in the acad.mns for examples. For instance, in 2004 look at the
**TB_INSERT toolbar, and then look at the way it's referenced as a flyout in
**TB_DRAW.

 

oh, I feel dumb, I meant those drop down list thingies...not sure what to
call 'em...



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Jamie Duncan

Consulting - If you're not part of the solution, there's good money in
prolonging the problem.

 

Like the layer or linetype dropdown? No can do with LISP.
ARX is the language of choice for that one.

 

If you are talking about the 'Main Menu Bar' pull-downs,
they are coded in the .mns as **POP1 or **POP2..ect.
Make a new **POPx where x = last POPn + 1. This will show up on the extreme right on the menu bar.
Do a Menuunload / Menuload to recompile.

Bob

 

ahhh, thanks Jason. Knowing nothing of arx, I fear to travel there...

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Jamie Duncan

Consulting - If you're not part of the solution, there's good money in
prolonging the problem.

 

me too <g>

 

No. you can't do those with lisp, but depending on your application, you
might find that a well-organized pulldown menu can serve as well.

 

hmm, I will have to rethink my strategy in this area. Thanks


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Jamie Duncan

"How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants,
rather than to create it herself."
- Anais Nin (1903-1977)