No Screen Menu

I'm running AutoCad 2002 on a Windows 2000 machine. For some jobs I like
to have the screen menu displayed. When I go to Tools/Options/Display
and tick the box, the screen menu appears as a grey toolbar type area
but it's forever blank no matter what operations I'm doing. Why is this?
This function seems to work fine on other machines. Is there some system
variable that is turned off?

 

Are you using the standard menu file?

 

Are you using the standard menu file?
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Sorry Ian, I'm not sure what you mean. I have the standard toolbar
displayed.

 

What Ian meanth by this is:
do you customize your menu file in autocad?
If yes, it might be possible that you removed the '**screen' section from
the menu file.
In that case you can see only a grey area.
Try loading the original autocad menu, you should see at least something in
the screen menu.

If that works, inspect your menu file and eventually copy the '**screen'
part from the autocad menu to your menu at the same place.

Jan

 

Sorry Ian, I'm not sure what you mean. I have the standard toolbar
displayed.[/QUOTE]

The screen menus are defined in the standard ACAD.MNU file. If you are
using a non-standard menu, then it may not have the screen menus
defined.

One other thing is that if you close all drawings and then close
AutoCAD, the screen menu will end up with no height. To get the screen
menu back you first have to drag it into the drawing area to un-dock it,
then drag the bottom border of the menu to give it height and then
re-dock it on the side of the screen. This will give you the menu back
until you close all drawings and then close AutoCAD again. The trick is
to NEVER close all drawings first before closing AutoCAD.