Partial Menu question:

[BillZ]

R14 Autolisp:
Two questions about a program I'm building.
1.) When I use menuunload to unload the previous toolbar menu and menuload to load it, the toolbar is "hidden" and I have to right click on a toolbar and turn it "on". It just started doing this as it worked fine the first several times I used it. (write-line "ID_LAYERS_DISPLAY_0 [_Toolbar(\"LAYERS_DISPLAY\", _Floating, _Show, 100, 300, 1)]" mfl) This is the line that defines the toolbar. Am I missing something here?
2.)How do I embed the newline character when I need double quotes? (princ \" \n Layer list string too long.\") , this does *not* work, neither does: (princ \" \\n Layer list string too long.\")
TIA

Bill

 

[BillZ]

The toolbar problem appears to be when the toolbar is "hidden" when I exit the dwg, from then on, when I create the new toolbar, it comes up as hidden, even though I have un-hided it before creating the new one. In other words if I un-hide it, and leave autocad and restart autocad, then all is well again.

Bill

 

[BillZ]

PF,
Place it in "where"?

>>You've found the Show command... place it in there ... as one of the last commands (in LISP, of course).<<<   

Bill

 

[PF]

I use the Menu.MNL file to force startup conditions...

You've found the Show command... place it in there ... as one of the last commands (in LISP, of course).

 

[PF]

(Sorry you needed to wait for me to return)
Place you SHOW command in an MNL file...

ACAD.MNC + ACAD.MNL
MY-MENU.MNC + MY-MENU.MNL

When they travel in pairs... the MENU loads... then it runs the MNL... just build a LSP file and rename it to *.MNL.