how to add the skill code to banner menu of layout window by giving the input as the path

I'm not really sure I understand your question.

You can have the code which defines the functions skill_code_1() and skill_code_2() completely separate from the code which defines your menus. That code can be loaded using load("fileContaining_skill_code_1_definition.il") and so on. I'm assuming the callback is a function defined using procedure() or defun() or similar?

You can also define an autoload property on a symbol:

skill_code_1.autoload="fileContaining_skill_code_1_definition.il"

and then the first time somebody calls skill_code_1() it will load the file to try to define the function.

But I'm guessing a bit here because I don't really understand what you're trying to do.

Andrew.

Hi Andrew,

Thank you very much for your quick reply, and apologies for my delay in the reply.

The actual thing i am trying to do here is that i want to create my personalized menu in the layout window like file, edit, view, etc., where all my skill codes which ever i have written are to be in that menu(for example "Charan" be the name of the menu and it has all the skill codes which i have with me in it).

When i click on that menu a drop box of all the skill codes (code1 performs some action and code2 which performs another action and so on..)which ever i have with me are to be loaded into that and by clicking on the item in that menu should  get my work done without loading my code in the ciw window using the 'load' command everytime i need that code to be run on my layout window.

I hope that this might clear your doubt on what is my objective actually.

Once again I would ask apologies for the delay in my respose.

Regards,

In general you don't really want to have to keep loading code to get the job - that suggests that you've not written functions to do the job, but just have some kind of script. If you define functions in your SKILL code, using the procedure() or defun() type function, then you only need to load it once (at startup, say), and then your menu can call CharanDoThis() or CharanDoThat(). 

If you really want to load the code each time, because it's a script, you can always make the menu callback:

?callback "load(\"/path/to/charanDoThisScript.il\")"

and so on.

I don't think I really understand what your problem is - I understand what you're trying to do, but I don't understand why you're unable to do this.

Regards,

Andrew.

Fairly clearly the quotes are wrong in the ?callback. I'm surprised you didn't notice that. Secondly, your deRegUserTriggers is registering a different function name than the one you've defined. So it should be:

procedure(CharanAddMenu(_args)
  let( (item1 item2)
    item1 = hiCreateMenuItem( ?name 'item1 ?itemText "to_do_this1" ?callback "load(\"/path/my_code1.il\")")
    item2 = hiCreateMenuItem( ?name 'item2 ?itemText "to_do_this2" ?callback "load(\"/path/my_code2.il\")")
    list(hiCreatePulldownMenu('CharMenu "CHARAN Menu" list(item1 item2)))
  )
)
deRegUserTriggers("maskLayout" nil 'CharanAddMenu)

Regards,

Andrew.

Hi Andrew,

I did not check the quotes. Now that you pointed me the mistake the job is done.

Thank you for your support and co-operation.

Regards,