POP Menus

I know I asked this a while ago, but Ican't seem to keep my custom menu loaded when I shut down ACAD and turn it back on. Can anyone help? Let me know if you need my MNU file to read it.

 

I have our custom menu loaded automatically with the following code in our acad2005doc.lsp.

(if (not (menugroup "acco"))(command "menuload" "n:/autocad support files/acco standard toolbar/acco2005.mns"))

 

It's not necessary (since R14) to use any lisp to force a menu to reload on
startup. Whatever menu and partial menus are loaded should come back in
every session automatically. If they don't, there's probably an error in the
menu. Common things to look for:

a) Make sure that there are no space characters in the menu file name. Other
odd characters like & can cause problems too.

b) Make sure the menugroup name in the mns file exactly matches the
filename. If it's named MYCOOL.MNS then the first line must read
***MENUGROUP=MYCOOL.

 

To expand a little on Tom's post, the active menu(s) are saved in the current profile. If they are not re-appearing in subsequent sessions, you may have some profile constraints of some kind in place.

 

To expand a little on Tom's post

Exactly. Unless the profile is being changed on startup, the menus should
come back automatically. In R13 we needed to forcibly reload partial menus
on startup, but this went away with the advent of profiles in R14.

If it's a profile issue, then perhaps the custom menu needs to be added
under the profile which is set current on startup.

 

You were right, I had a space in the title of my MNU file name, internal and external. Thanks guys!

 

In addition to that "expansion", AutoCAD used to be more forgiving about
missing/invalid MenuGroup names.

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R. Robert Bell

Exactly. Unless the profile is being changed on startup, the menus should
come back automatically. In R13 we needed to forcibly reload partial menus
on startup, but this went away with the advent of profiles in R14.

If it's a profile issue, then perhaps the custom menu needs to be added
under the profile which is set current on startup.

 

Also, isn't there a 25, (?), menu limit for total pulldowns? It will load
additional pulldowns during a session, but reopen AutoCAD and anything over
that limit aren't reloaded.

John

 

It used to be 16. Since then I haven't exceeded that.

 

Hi John,

24 is the magic number. .

I have experimented with values above 24 and AutoCAD ignores them.

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Laurie Comerford
CADApps
www.cadapps.com.au