Topic: Using a temporary computer & ACAD system?

[deegeecees]

The problem with ACAD2000 is that the icons are not found even when the path is added to ACAD.

IIRC, I solved that by naming the icon files with my own names instead of the generated ones Acad uses:

ID_UserButton_5 [_Button("PLOTTABS", "plottabs.bmp", "plottabs.bmp")]^C^C(LOAD"PlotTabs082306");PLOTTABS

as opposed to:

ID_UserButton_5 [_Button("PLOTTABS", "RCDA4464.bmp", "RCDATA_16_BLANK")]^C^C(LOAD"PlotTabs082306");PLOTTABS

[KewlToyZ]

One of those other things when using a Thumb Drive:
Plug-in the drive
Right click on My Computer, select Manage
Go to Storage -> Disk Management
Set your Thumb drive to the desired drive letter.
Provided you have to have some routines or profiles point to a specific drive letter.
A:\ or B:\ are actually available on most machines anymore.
Preferably B:\ in case it actually has one of those useless floppies still  :ugly:

[CAB]

Hey, i still have a floppy drive , but B: is available. Great tip.

[alanjt]

Hey, i still have a floppy drive , but B: is available. Great tip.

My boss handed me a floppy disc the other day (had some old files on it). We laughed and I thanked him for the new coaster. Thankfully, I found a machine in the plot room that had a floppy drive.

[LE3]

Hey, i still have a floppy drive , but B: is available. Great tip.

My boss handed me a floppy disc the other day (had some old files on it). We laughed and I thanked him for the new coaster. Thankfully, I found a machine in the plot room that had a floppy drive.

i still have a portable drive for floppy discs with a usb chord.... also my thesis project it is saved on those 5-1/4" ones an many stuff saved on floppies.... yikes I am old.

[JohnK]

The PC im using right now (im at home) has a floppy drive too.

[alanjt]

Hey, i still have a floppy drive , but B: is available. Great tip.

My boss handed me a floppy disc the other day (had some old files on it). We laughed and I thanked him for the new coaster. Thankfully, I found a machine in the plot room that had a floppy drive.

i still have a portable drive for floppy discs with a usb chord.... also my thesis project it is saved on those 5-1/4" ones an many stuff saved on floppies.... yikes I am old.

Our first computer - 286 - had the 5¼" floppy drive. I think I was 7 or 8.

The PC im using right now (im at home) has a floppy drive too.

My home PC still has one, but it's just not a common thing anymore.

[Chris]

Whats a floppy disc? 



actually, I havent had a floppy drive in my last two custom built systems, and before that, I dont think I've used them since at least 2004

[deegeecees]

I remember playing this on my Commodore 64, it used quite a bit of 5.25" floppies:

http://www.lemon64.com/?mainurl=http%3A//www.lemon64.com/games/details.php%3FID%3D427






My apologies for the thread mutation...

[GDF]

Alan

I have successfully loaded all of my bmps into a dll for my menus (one dll per menu) since windows 95 and have not had any problems. I use reshacker.

Example of menu toolbar:

**ARCH_DIMENSIONI
[_Toolbar("Dimension Tools I", _Floating, _Hide,  225,200,1)]
[_Button("Add Dimensions for Total", ARCH_ADIM, ARCH_ADIM)]ADIM
[_Button("Set Default Dimstyle", ARCH_D1, ARCH_D1)]D1
[_Button("Dimension Linear", ARCH_LIN, ARCH_LIN)]LIN
[_Button("Dimension Base", ARCH_BAS, ARCH_BAS)]BAS
[_Button("Dimension Continue", ARCH_CON, ARCH_CON)]CON
[_Button("Dimension Equal", ARCH_DEQ, ARCH_DEQ)]DEQ
[_Button("Dimension Update", ARCH_DU, ARCH_DU)]DU
[_Button("Edit", ARCH_ET, ARCH_ET)]ET

If if have multiple version of autocad on a machine, this how I load submenus:

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;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; PROG Menu Loader ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
(defun PlacePROGMenu  (/ CNT)
  (setq CNT 1)
  (while (< CNT 24)
    (if (menucmd (strcat "P" (itoa CNT) ".1=?"))
      (setq CNT (1+ CNT))
      (progn (if (> CNT 2)
               (setq CNT (1- CNT))
               (setq CNT 2))
             (menucmd (strcat "p" (itoa CNT) "=+PROG.pop1"))
             (setq CNT 25)))))
(defun c:PROG  (/ ProgLoad)
  (cond ((< (distof (substr (getvar "acadver") 1 4)) 16.0)
         (setq ProgLoad (strcat ARCH#SUPF "V_15/PROG.mnc")))
        ((and (>= (distof (substr (getvar "acadver") 1 4)) 16.0)
              (< (distof (substr (getvar "acadver") 1 4)) 16.2))
         (setq ProgLoad (findfile (strcat ARCH#SUPF "V_16/PROG.mnc"))))
;;;    
        ((and (>= (distof (substr (getvar "acadver") 1 4)) 16.2)
              (< (distof (substr (getvar "acadver") 1 4)) 17.0))
         (setq ProgLoad (findfile (strcat ARCH#SUPF "V_16/PROG.cui"))))
;;;
        ((and (>= (distof (substr (getvar "acadver") 1 4)) 17.0)
              (< (distof (substr (getvar "acadver") 1 4)) 18.0))
         (setq ProgLoad (findfile (strcat ARCH#SUPF "V_17/PROG.cui"))))
;;;
        ((and (>= (distof (substr (getvar "acadver") 1 4)) 18.0)
              (< (distof (substr (getvar "acadver") 1 4)) 19.0))
         (setq ProgLoad (findfile (strcat ARCH#SUPF "V_18/PROG.cuix")))))
  (cond
    ((/= ProgLoad nil)
     (progn (command "menuunload" "PROG" "menuload" ProgLoad)
            (PlacePROGMenu)
            (princ "\n*** ---------- PROG Menu Loaded ---------- ***")))
    ((= ProgLoad nil)
     (ARCH:MsgBox2
       " Arch Program : Info"
       48
       "
     Arch Program© Alert
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
     PROG Program is Not Loaded!"
       4)))
  ;;(MENUWAV)
  (princ))



[CAB]

Thanks Gary.

Looks like adding the path to the folder for the bmp file does not always work for me. If I restart acad then the bmp files are found and all is well.