Rules for Setting Default Menu Manager Options
When setting default Menu Manager menu options using menu_def.pro, be aware of the following points:
• To avoid creating serious problems consider what result setting a certain menu default may produce. Always remember what menu items the file has set as defaults. For example, setting Create as the default choice for the Feature menu results in a continuous loop of feature creation, which can only be stopped by exiting the Creo Parametric session.
Setting a certain drawing size as the default for the DWG SIZE menu is another example of a dangerous choice. That drawing size is automatically selected whenever a drawing is created, and could easily lead to a drawing being completed on the wrong size sheet before the mistake is realized.
• The system default directory <loadpoint>/text is searched first, then the current working directory. If a menu default entry has already been defined for a particular menu in menu_def.pro, any conflicting definitions in the local file are ignored.
• You cannot set menu defaults for compound menus.
• Insert only one space between a menuname and the menuitem specified as its default.
• The entries you make in the menu_def.pro file are case insensitive.
• If during runtime a user-defined menu default is inaccessible, it is ignored at that moment. If the same menu name is used in the menu_def.pro file twice, the later entry overrides the earlier one. The system does not report any error messages for incorrect menu defaults.