How to add a new menu item to an existing menu?

I'm trying to add a new menu item to an existing pulldown menu
programmatically after its been loaded into ACAD, I don't want to modify the
..MNU file. I can do this using VBA but would rather do it using VLisp.
Does anyone out there know how to do this?

Thanks,
TMA

 

What's wrong with modifying the acad.mnu? I do it all the time. I keep a copy on
my zip drive and elsewhere, but modify it and recompile it. If I've made a
mistake (and the gods know I have), I edit it again and recompile. Simple and
straight forward.

 

This should get you started

(setq menugroups (vla-get-menugroups (vlax-get-acad-object))
menu (vla-item menugroups "Mymenu")
menus (vla-get-menus menu)
)
(setq newBarItem (vla-add menus "myMenu"))
(vla-addmenuitem newBarItem "End" "Testing" "'redraw")
(vla-insertinmenubar newbaritem 18)

Good Luck,
Jeff

 

Thanks Jeff, this is exactly what I needed.

TMA

 

<<What's wrong with modifying the acad.mnu?>>

Nothing really. But the next acad release makes upgrading to the new menu a lot more work.

If you leave the basic ACAD.mn? stuff alone and menuload custom menus behind it, it makes the upgrade to the next release a little smoother.

Now that said. editing the MN file can cause you to lose any customization done during a acad session. If you add or modify the menu using the customize toolbar feature during an acad session ONLY the MN'S is modified and new MC and MN are created. Nothing is changed in the MN. If after that you modify the MN and recompile the menu, you'll lose all the customization saved in the MN'S.

Some people delete the MNU's entirely to avoid that mistake.

 

Just a matter of choice. That's why I customize the mnu file and do not use the customize toolbar feature and never had any problems with upgrading.

 

<<That's why I customize the mnu file and do not use the customize toolbar feature >>

Oh, you key it all in for a new button?


<<and never had any problems with upgrading.>>

It just a hassle to cut-n-paste custom stuff out of the old menu into the new one. We just move from one to the next without any editing, often without a recompile.