Limit on toolbar icons

martin@enco.us

I was adding custom toolbar icons and received a pop-up that Bricscad could not add an icon to the image list. Is there a maximum number of icons that can be added? I have around 300 custom icons for my current toolbars. If there is a limit is there a way to increase the limit or work around it?

Wiebe van der Worp

I've not experienced that ever and one of the menu's I maintain contains more than 1000 different toolbar icons, i.e. (smal+large)*500 in one .resz file.

Here, the resz file is a renamed and non-compressed zip file and icons are 16*16 plus 32*32 pixel png files.

ALANH

Would you be better off having a smaller tool bar but it pops a dcl with the images/icons.

As a toolbar is part of a MNU you may be able to take advantage of calling an Image section in the mnu. The advantage is that CAD handles the display and includes Next for more pages.

I have not tried it as normally use POP menu's. Can provide Image mnu code.

martin@enco.us

Thanks for the suggestions. I'll try the RESZ approach. The pop menu isn't a good option for my office. Twice the clicks, and the toolbar buttons that do block insertions are electrical symbols which can be inserted hundreds of times per day.

ALANH

You must be using sub toolbars flyouts, this is pop menu showing common groups, should be able to do same but as a tool bar. This uses the image section of the mnu, you need a toolbar mnu, one of the reasons I stay away from using the CUI editor.

martin@enco.us

@alanh:

I do have a few pop-up toolbars (which generally auto-close after a selection) in addition to the always on toolbars, but no fly-outs. That's mostly because I use AutoHotKey to mimic Owen's QuikPik.

Wiebe van der Worp

Avoiding cui-editor… Indeed!

So: make an .mnu file, example MyMenu.mnu and MyMenu.resz > cuiload > .cui is generated > if needed, feed that .cui to acad for .cuix.

Screendump: A spreadsheet (LO Calc) with column I pastable for a .mnu file. Work like a charm for decades now. =IFS() works like a (cond …) statement.

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ALANH

Like the idea of using Excel as the interface for making mnu files. Can take a csv file and convert to mnu using lisp. Or do in Excel using a macro.

Did something similar reading a text file.

Pity Ribbon is not supported. Only way seems to be to make a cui based on XML code.

Wiebe van der Worp

Thing is, I need some buttons with "greyed out mode", in XML:
<State>$DieselExpression</State>

So it is tempting to follow the XML approach, split the sheet in two parts, one for button definitions <MacroGroup> and one for toolbar definitions <MenuRoot><ToolbarRoot>.

The sheet then generates the full XML.

Assumption is that BricsCAD can handle "not pretty" XML.

ALANH

If you take a Acad cuix its a zip file just copy and rename to zip, then can look inside, it's so linked between multiple xml files. The ribbon is exposed.

At least can look at a Bricscad cui. Like the idea make a cui. But is it easier to write a mnu and use menuload ?

Wiebe van der Worp

I managed to create a proper CUI for toolbars. I thought it might be good to share the way I did it.

You can find it here:

https://vanderworp.org/cui/

Wiebe van der Worp

For more see:

https://forum.bricsys.com/discussion/comment/54463