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ACLT.mns menu file saving

ACLT.mns menu file saving

ACLT.mns menu file saving

(OP)
Can someone explain the logic AutoCAD uses in updating .mns files?  I am tinkering with a series of menus and was attempting to isloate all customization within the ACLT menu, save it as a seperate menu file, and maintain a generic "out of the box" version of the ACLT menu.

I have the menus seperated, but now the ACLT.mns file is not being updated.  At first I thought that when I executed MENULOAD, and browsed to the directory "AcadLT2002/Support" for the generic ACLT.mns, and then loaded it, that maybe it was saving the new .mns in another directory but I couldn't find it anywhere.  The previous version of ACLT.mns (with customized toolbars) was being updated in the root directory every time I moved a tool bar.  Once I changed to the generic ACLT.mns, it only updated the compiled file .mnc.  All of these files were tagged as "archive" by Windows 2000.

Am I missing something obvious, or is there a secret handshake?  Is there something particular in the specified file paths under preferences that would cause this?

Any and all help is appreciated.

Bill
Racer24ksi

RE: ACLT.mns menu file saving

(OP)
I may be answering my own question here, but it seems that opening, moving, and closing various toolbars does not prompt a change to ACLT.mns.  However, tinkering with the actual buttons does.  Which begs the question, if the ACLT.mns file contains information on the location and state of each toolbar, how does it remember this information if it doesn't update the ACLT.mns file???

RE: ACLT.mns menu file saving

Not sure if this is completely correct, so someone please let me know if I'm wrong...

I believe that it stores the original locations of toolbars in the .mns, and when they get moved, (not changed, just relocated on the screen) it changes the autocad configuration file when Autocad loads.  We set our custom toobars to just appear in the middle of the screen when first loaded, so the user can place them wherever they wish, instead of trying to set them up as docked from the start.  (We tried that originally, but the resolutions are different from one computer to the next, depending on preference, and on some machines, this pushed the toolbars off screen)

RE: ACLT.mns menu file saving

I have customised the aclt.mnu with a pulldown menu, when the new menu is loaded everything works ok but there are no previews of the blocks in the menu even though the mslides,mylists and *.slb have been created. Any ideas

RE: ACLT.mns menu file saving

I have customised the aclt.mnu with a pulldown menu, when the new menu is loaded everything works ok but there are no previews of the blocks in the menu even though the mslides,mylists and *.slb have been created. Any ideas

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