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&lt;strong&gt;Original Article&amp;nbsp;Date:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;July 4, 2006&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp; 
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Contributing author &lt;em&gt;Hilton Quinn&lt;/em&gt; offers these tips when working with barmenus. They&amp;#39;re a great accompaniment to the &lt;em&gt;Fly With Barmenu&lt;/em&gt; articles. 
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&lt;strong&gt;Tip 1 - Edit the title&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
You can change the title of your barmenu without having to go in into the &lt;em&gt;Macro &amp;gt; Builder&lt;/em&gt; file by simply adding a title in the MDF file prefixed by &lt;em&gt;Macro&amp;gt; #&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
For example, the title &lt;em&gt;CAD Toolbox&lt;/em&gt; defined in the MDF file after &lt;em&gt;#&lt;/em&gt;. 
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Editing this direclty in the MDF file to read &lt;em&gt;XYZ Office Standards&lt;/em&gt; will result in a new title for the barmenu as shown below. 
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&lt;strong&gt;Tip 2 - Add a Reload function&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The following tip is useful in situations where you are constantly editing and testing changes to the MDF file. In doing so you must save the MDF text file, close the barmenu in MicroStation and finally reload it with a keyin. Instead of this workflow, just add a &lt;em&gt;Reload Barmenu&lt;/em&gt; in the MDF file. 
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To do that, just add this syntax:&lt;br /&gt;
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Reload Barmenu, &amp;quot;MDL UNLOAD BARMENU; MDL LOAD BARMENU&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;\\fwuk.fwc.com\RDG\User\D153\Home\t9446\My Documents\MicoStation Settings\CAD_Toolbox\202_DATA\CADTlbx.MDF&amp;quot;&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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NOTE: Double apostrophes are required for file names with spaces in the path name e.g. &amp;quot;input&amp;quot;File Path&amp;quot;&amp;quot;. &lt;br /&gt;
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As you can see that path is rather long, so consider creating and using configuration variables such as &lt;em&gt;TOOLBX&lt;/em&gt; which I&amp;#39;ve defined in &lt;em&gt;standards.cfg&lt;/em&gt; file. &lt;br /&gt;
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Reload Barmenu, &amp;quot;MDL UNLOAD BARMENU; MDL LOAD BARMENU&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;$(TOOLBX)202_DATA/CADTlbx.mdf&amp;quot;&amp;quot; 
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AskInga Article #299&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

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</description></item><item><title>Tips for Barmenus </title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/w/askinga/392/tips-for-barmenus/revision/2</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:03:30 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:3681960e-1283-4f7b-b8b7-18f2dc638956</guid><dc:creator>Hannah Blye</dc:creator><comments>https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/w/askinga/392/tips-for-barmenus#comments</comments><description>Revision 2 posted to [Archived] AskInga Wiki by Hannah Blye on 6/11/2008 5:03:30 PM&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Original Article&amp;nbsp;Date:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;July 4, 2006&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp; 
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Contributing author &lt;em&gt;Hilton Quinn&lt;/em&gt; offers these tips when working with barmenus. They're a great accompaniment to the &lt;em&gt;Fly With Barmenu&lt;/em&gt; articles. 
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&lt;strong&gt;Tip 1 - Edit the title&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
You can change the title of your barmenu without having to go in into the &lt;em&gt;Macro &amp;gt; Builder&lt;/em&gt; file by simply adding a title in the MDF file prefixed by &lt;em&gt;Macro&amp;gt; #&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
For example, the title &lt;em&gt;CAD Toolbox&lt;/em&gt; defined in the MDF file after &lt;em&gt;#&lt;/em&gt;. 
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Editing this direclty in the MDF file to read &lt;em&gt;XYZ Office Standards&lt;/em&gt; will result in a new title for the barmenu as shown below. 
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			&lt;td align="top" valign="top"&gt;&lt;img src="/askIngaPics/299Pic3.jpg" border="0" align="left" /&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;
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&lt;strong&gt;Tip 2 - Add a Reload function&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The following tip is useful in situations where you are constantly editing and testing changes to the MDF file. In doing so you must save the MDF text file, close the barmenu in MicroStation and finally reload it with a keyin. Instead of this workflow, just add a &lt;em&gt;Reload Barmenu&lt;/em&gt; in the MDF file. 
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			&lt;td align="top" valign="top"&gt;&lt;img src="/askIngaPics/299Pic5.jpg" border="0" align="left" /&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
		&lt;/tr&gt;
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To do that, just add this syntax:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Reload Barmenu, &amp;quot;MDL UNLOAD BARMENU; MDL LOAD BARMENU&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;\\fwuk.fwc.com\RDG\User\D153\Home\t9446\My Documents\MicoStation Settings\CAD_Toolbox\202_DATA\CADTlbx.MDF&amp;quot;&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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NOTE: Double apostrophes are required for file names with spaces in the path name e.g. &amp;quot;input&amp;quot;File Path&amp;quot;&amp;quot;. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
As you can see that path is rather long, so consider creating and using configuration variables such as &lt;em&gt;TOOLBX&lt;/em&gt; which I've defined in &lt;em&gt;standards.cfg&lt;/em&gt; file. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Reload Barmenu, &amp;quot;MDL UNLOAD BARMENU; MDL LOAD BARMENU&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;$(TOOLBX)202_DATA/CADTlbx.mdf&amp;quot;&amp;quot; 
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&lt;div style="font-size: 90%;"&gt;Tags: Askinga, Interface Look and Feel&lt;/div&gt;
</description></item><item><title>Tips for Barmenus </title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/w/askinga/392/tips-for-barmenus/revision/1</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 14:24:58 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:3681960e-1283-4f7b-b8b7-18f2dc638956</guid><dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator><comments>https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/w/askinga/392/tips-for-barmenus#comments</comments><description>Revision 1 posted to [Archived] AskInga Wiki by Anonymous on 5/30/2008 2:24:58 PM&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;img src="/askIngaPics/askingalogo.gif" border="0" alt="Ask Inga logo" title="Ask?Inga" width="230" height="76" /&gt; 
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Contributing author &lt;em&gt;Hilton Quinn&lt;/em&gt; offers these tips when working with barmenus. They're a great accompaniment to the &lt;em&gt;Fly With Barmenu&lt;/em&gt; articles.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="border-bottom: #cccccc 1pt solid"&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Tip 1 - Edit the title&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
You can change the title of your barmenu without having to go in into the &lt;em&gt;Macro &amp;gt; Builder&lt;/em&gt; file by simply adding a title in the MDF file prefixed by &lt;em&gt;Macro&amp;gt; #&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
For example, the title &lt;em&gt;CAD Toolbox&lt;/em&gt; defined in the MDF file after &lt;em&gt;#&lt;/em&gt;.
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			&lt;td align="top" valign="top"&gt;&lt;img src="/askIngaPics/299Pic1.jpg" border="0" align="left" /&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
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			&lt;td align="top" valign="top"&gt;&lt;img src="/askIngaPics/299Pic2.jpg" border="0" align="left" /&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
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Editing this direclty in the MDF file to read &lt;em&gt;XYZ Office Standards&lt;/em&gt; will result in a new title for the barmenu as shown below.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="6" width="100%"&gt;
	&lt;tbody&gt;
		&lt;tr&gt;
			&lt;td align="top" valign="top"&gt;&lt;img src="/askIngaPics/299Pic3.jpg" border="0" align="left" /&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;
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&lt;strong&gt;Tip 2 - Add a Reload function&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The following tip is useful in situations where you are constantly editing and testing changes to the MDF file. In doing so you must save the MDF text file, close the barmenu in MicroStation and finally reload it with a keyin. Instead of this workflow, just add a &lt;em&gt;Reload Barmenu&lt;/em&gt; in the MDF file.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="6" width="100%"&gt;
	&lt;tbody&gt;
		&lt;tr&gt;
			&lt;td align="top" valign="top"&gt;&lt;img src="/askIngaPics/299Pic5.jpg" border="0" align="left" /&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
		&lt;/tr&gt;
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To do that, just add this syntax:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Reload Barmenu, &amp;quot;MDL UNLOAD BARMENU; MDL LOAD BARMENU&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;\\fwuk.fwc.com\RDG\User\D153\Home\t9446\My Documents\MicoStation Settings\CAD_Toolbox\202_DATA\CADTlbx.MDF&amp;quot;&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
NOTE: Double apostrophes are required for file names with spaces in the path name e.g. &amp;quot;input&amp;quot;File Path&amp;quot;&amp;quot;. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
As you can see that path is rather long, so consider creating and using configuration variables such as &lt;em&gt;TOOLBX&lt;/em&gt; which I've defined in &lt;em&gt;standards.cfg&lt;/em&gt; file. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Reload Barmenu, &amp;quot;MDL UNLOAD BARMENU; MDL LOAD BARMENU&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;$(TOOLBX)202_DATA/CADTlbx.mdf&amp;quot;&amp;quot;
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Ask Inga Article #299
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