CUI's and command functionality?

[mcoffman]

Thanks for the input. I had to revert back to a basic layout because I had a project come in that needed ASAP attention. When I get a chance I'll experiment some more and upload the results. Basically what I did was load all of my menus as partial CUI's into the custom cui, renamed it, and set it as the enterprise cui. If I went into the CUI interface, I could see the toolbar for the workspaces and I could "add" it while customizing the workspace in the CUI but it still didn't show. It was visible in the tree structure but not in the drafting environment...

MC

[rpm]

Being that I love customizing, LISP, VBA and the like, when I recieved 2006 I dove right in with both feet. It took me a while but I think I've finally got the grasp of the CUI interface. However, one tendency of the cui really bugged me. When I did a MENULOAD to convert our old .mns files into CUIs all of the file menus appeared on the screen. As our company has a lot of them and my unit only uses a few that got real messy real quick. To rememdy that, I created my own main cui (replacing the acad.cui) and used the transfer function to drag what I wanted from the various "partial cui's" into it. This has served me well with one exception. The make object layer current command "AI_MOLC" no longer functions. Could this be because I'm not using the ACAD.cui? Does anyone have any suggestions on a remedy?

I'm still learning this new interface so if anyone has any suggestions as to how they've tackled similar issues feel free to speak up!

Michael Coffman

Try copying the ACAD.MNL file (C:\Documents and Settings\"login name"\Application Data\Autodesk\AutoCAD 2006\R16.2\enu\Support) to the same location as your new CUI file and renaming it to whatever your CUI file name is. It's the Autolisp Menu Source file and it is loads with the corresponding CUI name. This is where the ai_molc command is defined, as well as many others.

Hope this helps,

Rick

[mcoffman]

I didn't think of that. Thanks!