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Custom Menu Problems.

Custom Menu Problems.

Custom Menu Problems.

(OP)
Does anyone know how to create a double line menu label.  I've heard of this being done but can't find out how to do it.

RE: Custom Menu Problems.

(OP)
I looked on the site you suggested but coulden't find what I need. Would you have any other suggestions???  Good site for information by the way. thanks.

RE: Custom Menu Problems.

Do you mean you want to create a label for the "Multiline" command on a toolbar?  If you have AutoCAD 2004 it is easy. I not certain how to do it with previous versions.

Steve Smith, C.I.D.
Product Engineer
Staco Energy Products Co.
www.stacoenergy.com

RE: Custom Menu Problems.

(OP)
I have created pulldown menus to insert certain notes into my drawings. The names get rather lenghty to display all of it in one line on the screen so I'm trying to split it to two selectable lines.  Like this label:

[&2. FINISH: APPLY TEFLON PENETRATED HARD ANODIZE COATING PER MIL-A-8625 TYPE III, CLASS 1, TO ALL SURFACES EXCEPT WHERE NOTED. BUILD-UP PER DIAMETER TO BE .002 INCHES MAX. RACK WITH ELECTRODES.]

 I'd like this to display this on 2 lines on the pulldown menu instead of one continuous line.

Sorry for the poor description in my previous posts.  Thanks

RE: Custom Menu Problems.

Couldn't you just break it into 2 separate labels, and the user could select either label to insert the note?

RE: Custom Menu Problems.

(OP)
Yea, I was thinking of doing that but it confuses some of the other people who use the menu.  They think it's two diffrent notes instead of one.  Thanks for the input.

RE: Custom Menu Problems.

hi,

untested, try [control] + [enter]

cheers,

RE: Custom Menu Problems.

Instead of putting this long text in the label, use helpstrings in your menus.  I am assuming that you are using notes that are wblocked, not using a macro to enter this text in mtext.
(just copy and paste into Notepad, it wordwraps here on the net)
In this example, "Coating_Note" and "SSTube_Note" are the names of the blocks.

//
// Notes.mnu
//
// Inserts note blocks into drawing
//
// This menu assumes that the blocks are in the support path.
//
// Helpstrings are displayed in the status line.
//

***MENUGROUP=Notes

***POP1
Header [Notes]
coatNote   [&Coat Note]^C^C-INSERT;Coating_Note;\;;;
SSTubeNote  [&SS Tube Note]^C^C-INSERT;SSTube_Note;\;;;
 

***HELPSTRINGS    
CoatNote  [FINISH: APPLY TEFLON PENETRATED HARD ANODIZE COATING PER MIL-A-8625 TYPE III, CLASS 1, TO ALL SURFACES EXCEPT

WHERE NOTED. BUILD-UP PER DIAMETER TO BE .002 INCHES MAX. RACK WITH ELECTRODES.]

SSTubeNote  [Stainless Steel Tubing: TP304 or TP316, seamless; made to ASTM A269-90. Mill source certificates required,

including heat number and chemical analysis.]


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