Toolbar Question

[cmmuser]

We just finished our 3.7 MR3 upgrade on Friday. I came in this morning and sat down to get started, and I noticed that all of my Tool bars seem to have doubled. In other words Constructed features is still one tool bar but all the icons show up twice. This is also in Auto Feature and dimension. I can't seem to find a way to access the tool bar to edit what icons i see. Any suggestions?

[#2#]

Do this, it will save you much frustration.

Create your own custom toolbars with only the icons you want. Doing this will save window space and allow a larger graphics display window.

Then, turn off the "standard" toolbars. Turn on the windows layout toolbar and save your windows layout.

When PC-DMIS starts up and for some reason moves or changes your toolbars all you have to do is turn on the windows layout toolbar and click your layout. Violla everything is back where you had it!

[cmmuser]

Well Creating all custom tool bars worked fantastic. But I picked up on a glitch i ran into on 3.5 and that is some of the toolbars I have created will not reside on the same line as others. I closed out of PC-Dmis and re-started. Now on my start-up PC-Dmis screen I have 4 completely empty toolbars. These show up without a program being called up. And also show when a program is up. What did I do??

[Matthew D. Hoedeman]

You did NOTHING! That is a freaking BUG in V3.7. What I had to do was make ALL my custom toolbars in V3.5, excluding icons for things that CHANGED from 3.5 to 3.7 (even ones I really wanted) and not adding ones that I would have liked that showed up in V3.7. Then, save the WINDOW LAYOUT. This information will be in the directory that contains the file GBARSTATE. I then had to COPY all the files that are in that directory in V3.5 to the same directory in V3.7. Then, everytime V3.7 messes them up, I have to do the copy thing again to get rid of those empty bars. And, as time goes on, you will get MORE of those empty bars until you have NO SCREEN left, just empty bars. Nice, eh?

[#2#]

Well Creating all custom tool bars worked fantastic. But I picked up on a glitch i ran into on 3.5 and that is some of the toolbars I have created will not reside on the same line as others. I closed out of PC-Dmis and re-started. Now on my start-up PC-Dmis screen I have 4 completely empty toolbars. These show up without a program being called up. And also show when a program is up. What did I do??

Hmm, I've never had either of those problems. I've had a lot of other problems but not those!

Can you just create 1 toolbar with all the icons? Then you don't have to try putting two toolbars on the same line. I would have thought that the windows layout would get rid of the empty toolbars and replace with your custom toolbars. From Matt's post that appears to not be the case.

Try opening PC-DMIS. Are the blank toolbars present? If yes do a ctrl + alt + del. Look in the task manager. Select PC-DMIS and then end task. Once it is done closing PC-DMIS close the task manager and then re-open PC-DMIS. Are the blank toolbars there now?

[Matthew D. Hoedeman]

Hmm, I've never had either of those problems. I've had a lot of other problems but not those!

Can you just create 1 toolbar with all the icons? Then you don't have to try putting two toolbars on the same line. I would have thought that the windows layout would get rid of the empty toolbars and replace with your custom toolbars. From Matt's post that appears to not be the case.

Try opening PC-DMIS. Are the blank toolbars present? If yes do a ctrl + alt + del. Look in the task manager. Select PC-DMIS and then end task. Once it is done closing PC-DMIS close the task manager and then re-open PC-DMIS. Are the blank toolbars there now?

The way I understand it is if you CREATE a custom toolbar, this will happen, EVERYTIME, but if you remove things (and maybe add things) to the standard toolbars (customize them, not make a custom one), then it will not do this garbage. Also, just deleting the GBARSTATE file does not fix the empty bars, I tried that first (and 2nd, and 3rd, etc.) before I found this method.

[jon_dav_uk]

I have had most of the problems mentioned above at some stage or another with various levels of success at sorting them out.

Got a new one today, we have just had a new Global Performance CMM installed and calibrated. First time I went to really use it, I cannot get the edit window to "dock" on the left hand side of the screen, it either docks at the top or I just have to have it floating somewhere in the window. I have four other CMM's all with V3.7MR3 installed with the same spec PC's and operating systems so cannot fathom this out

ideas anyone ?

[#2#]

The way I understand it is if you CREATE a custom toolbar, this will happen, EVERYTIME, but if you remove things (and maybe add things) to the standard toolbars (customize them, not make a custom one), then it will not do this garbage. Also, just deleting the GBARSTATE file does not fix the empty bars, I tried that first (and 2nd, and 3rd, etc.) before I found this method.

Hmmm, maybe I didn't create custom toolbars but just edited the existing toolbars. Can't remember now. I guess I could recall my windows layout and check to see which toolbars are turned on.

[#2#]

I have had most of the problems mentioned above at some stage or another with various levels of success at sorting them out.

Got a new one today, we have just had a new Global Performance CMM installed and calibrated. First time I went to really use it, I cannot get the edit window to "dock" on the left hand side of the screen, it either docks at the top or I just have to have it floating somewhere in the window. I have four other CMM's all with V3.7MR3 installed with the same spec PC's and operating systems so cannot fathom this out

ideas anyone ?

I seem to remember something about this. I will have to take a look though. Anyone else want to chime in while I'm researching?

[#2#]

What I have found... right click in the edit window - not on the top of it but actually down where you would do editing. Then, make sure that "docking view" is checked.

If it is and you are still having problems???

[jon_dav_uk]

What I have found... right click in the edit window - not on the top of it but actually down where you would do editing. Then, make sure that "docking view" is checked.

If it is and you are still having problems???

Tried that and failed

Just managed to find a way around it by copying the .dat window layout files from a machine I have which works to new machine and pasting over the top of existing files. Why I could not do it manually I dont know but it works so not gonna complain

[#2#]

Tried that and failed

Just managed to find a way around it by copying the .dat window layout files from a machine I have which works to new machine and pasting over the top of existing files. Why I could not do it manually I dont know but it works so not gonna complain

I saw in the help file that suposedly you can dock it top, bottom, left or right. It of course gives no direction on how to do so. Glad you got it working. Sorry I couldn't help.

[Wes Cisco]

Hmmm, maybe I didn't create custom toolbars but just edited the existing toolbars. Can't remember now. I guess I could recall my windows layout and check to see which toolbars are turned on.

This is how I got around the 3.7MR3 toolbar problem. I did not create a custom bar, but modified the standard bars to include all the goodies I want to see all the time, then saved the window layout. Works great. The only time I have to hit the icon to recall the saved layout is if I open a second program off line. For some reason when I close the second one it causes the layout of the first one to go haywire, but a click of the icon and all is well again. HTH

[jon_dav_uk]

I saw in the help file that suposedly you can dock it top, bottom, left or right. It of course gives no direction on how to do so. Glad you got it working. Sorry I couldn't help.
Yesterday 09:50 PM

No problem. The help files are great aren't they, make me laugh every time, I normally read then when I need a lift. They come out with some little gems of wisdon like

The Minimize icon minimizes the Edit window's size
The Maximize icon maximizes the Edit window's size.

[cmmuser]

Wes I am using the method you posted, after I renamed the Insp folder and let it reinstall itself. This reset all of the defaults for the toolbars, colors, etc. Then I adjusted the existing toolbars to suit what I needed, then saved the window layout. This seems to be the most stable fix. Thank you everyone.