Topic: Slides. What a ride.

[daron]

Okay, They use slide libraries here and they've modified the acad menu to do it. I'd like to separate these into a custom menu. Without using add-on's, I need someone to explain the ropes of how to get a slide library into a pull-down and to show up correctly. Sorry, don't have much more info than that, except the start of the image menu on it:

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***IMAGE
**IMAGE_MOBJECTS
[Select Object]
[info here]
When I load that with its appended menu code, there is no pull-down or anything that invoke the slides with. I haven't worked with slides since school.

[M-dub]

Here are some chunks of our menu.  I created it a long time ago, so if I were to do it again, I'd likely do it a little differently.  This works though.

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***MENUGROUP=TerraACAD

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***POP1
**[&Terra Blocks]
//[&Borders...]^c^c$I=TerraACAD.image_BORDERS $I=*
[&Controllers...]^c^c$I=TerraACAD.image_CONTROLLERS $I=*
[&Electrical...]^c^c$I=TerraACAD.image_ELEC $I=*
[&Instrument Bubbles...]^c^c$I=TerraACAD.image_Bubbles $I=*

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***IMAGE
**IMAGE_CONTROLLERS
[TERRA - Controllers...]
[TERRA(12,12)]^C^C-INSERT O:/DRAWINGS/Menus-Blocks/CONTROLLERS/12 \DRAG ;;;
[TERRA(14,14)]^C^C-INSERT O:/DRAWINGS/Menus-Blocks/CONTROLLERS/14 \DRAG ;;;
[TERRA(16,16)]^C^C-INSERT O:/DRAWINGS/Menus-Blocks/CONTROLLERS/16 \DRAG ;;;

What I did was to first create a script file to create the slides...

open C:\directory\drawing.dwg zoom e mslide close
open C:\directory\drawin2.dwg zoom e mslide close
etc...

Once the slides are created, you need to make sure that slidelib.exe is in C:\directory (the directory your slides are in)
As seen in the AutoCAD help file, go to dos prompt, and while in the directory, type:

dir *.sld /b > slidelist

Then, with that list in the same directory, type:

slidelib libraryname < slidelist

You then need to put 'libraryname.slb' in your AutoCAD Support directory and add the definition to your menu.

Being an advanced user, I probably don't need to go into a whole lot of detail, but if you need any more help, by all means, let me know.

Hope that helps!
Mike

[M-dub]

You also have to add your mnl file in the support directory and make sure you haven't duplicated a Menugroup name....

[M-dub]

This is what we get...

(have I ever mentioned that we use Blockwerx?   )

http://theswamp.org/lilly_pond/mike/slidesmenu.PNG?nossi=1
http://theswamp.org/lilly_pond/mike/controllerslides.PNG?nossi=1

[daron]

Yes, you have. I'd love to use it. Maybe I'll have to pull up some info and ship it to our IT guy. BTW, is there a reason I don't see images? You might try changing those to url's instead.

P.S. Thanks. I'll try to work this out.

[M-dub]

>BTW, is there a reason I don't see images? You might try changing those to url's instead.

I was wondering about that as well...What's going on?  What do I have to put in there as a url now that the lily pond is password protected?