{"id":985,"date":"2015-01-15T08:10:10","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T08:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbsolutions.com\/projects\/?p=985"},"modified":"2022-02-03T11:24:59","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T17:24:59","slug":"once-again-following-bentley-autoplant-menu-items-all-the-way-through-to-speckey-ini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbsolutions.com\/projects\/once-again-following-bentley-autoplant-menu-items-all-the-way-through-to-speckey-ini\/","title":{"rendered":"Once again &#8211; reverse eng. &#038; following Bentley AutoPLANT menu items all the way through to SPECKEY.ini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote this article, as I again had to figure this out from scratch and it is my 10th time doing so. I did pretty good this time &#8211; it usually takes longer. Anyways, if it helps anyone out there or me in the future &#8211; it was worth it.<\/p>\n<p>In AutoPLANT \/ AutoCAD,<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Place a component.<\/li>\n<li>Press the up arrow to see what command that was (A)\u00a0<em>AT_INSTRIND<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Click on Tools-&gt;Customize User Interface. Look under partial Customization files and note locations. I think we need the at_elect.cuix file (this is a binary file). It, in our case is here\u00a0c:\\programdata\\bentley\\plant v8i\\elect\\. Here you will see a <strong>.mnl<\/strong>\u00a0file with the same name. Open it and search to see what (A) really does. Record this as <!--more-->(B)\u00a0<em>at_Component_insert &#8220;at_instr&#8221; &#8220;AT_INSTRIND&#8221;<\/em>)\n<ul>\n<li>this 2nd part is the class that will be referenced (C)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Now look at the path along which the class.ini files will be searched&#8230; (<a href=\"http:\/\/elbsolutions.com\/projects\/bentley-search-path-ebs-files\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">see my previous article<\/a>)\n<ul>\n<li>in our case it was IN The project under the Instruments path &lt;PROJECT&gt;\\Config\\modules\\Instrmnt and there was a class with a whole bunch of classes that are defined elsewhere &#8211; only put stuff in the project that is different from the default class.ini items. It will find them along that search path listed above.<\/li>\n<li>Sure enough &#8211; there is the issue. Looking in class.ini for (C) we confirmed we are looking for <strong>[<em>AT_INSTRIND]<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0which is the same for SPEC_KEY=AT_INSTRIND &#8211; so we are looking for \u00a0in SPECKEY.INI. Here we see the class.ini and speckey.ini files were added and changed from a while ago and it refers to the wrong verified with Beyond Compare (another fabulous piece of software).<\/li>\n<li>Root cause? The menu item refers to the wrong class<\/li>\n<li>Now comes the long way for others to correct it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote this article, as I again had to figure this out from scratch and it is my 10th time doing so. I did pretty good this time &#8211; it usually takes longer. Anyways, if it helps anyone out there or me in the future &#8211; it was worth it. 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