Customize the Menus and Splash Page

Customize your menus and splash page. You can customize the menus displayed and this is useful when the software is used in various departments on your production floor. For example for personnel performing PC Board inspection with the included UnisoftPCB assembly / PCBA viewer software you can simplify its use by removing the menus that are not necessary in that department. You can also add custom Splash Page text that will be displayed when the software is first started such as "UNISOFT VIEWER FOR USE IN THE INSPECTION DEPARTMENT".

TIP: A recommendation if the Unisoft PCB assembly / PCBA viewer is used on the production floor is to remove the SAVE and SAVE AS menus that are located on the FILE menu so that production floor personnel will be unable to overwrite your "golden" .F2B file. To remove the SAVE and SAVE AS menu items from the FILE menu insert the following text in the MARKUP.INI file. More details below.

[TailoredMenus]
File|Save=N
File|Save As...=N

Below is a brief explanation of how to customize the Menus and Splash Page. Please contact Unisoft if you need additional details on how to use this feature.

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TO USE: All menus with the exception of FILE, VIEW and SHOW can be modified or removed. To modify the MENUS go to the MARKUP.INI file located in the WINDOWS directory. Then under the [TailoredMenus] section insert the menu control you wish. Below are examples:

To remove for example the Quote/Quality menu insert the following in the MARKUP.INI file.

[TailoredMenus]
Quote/Quality=N 

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To remove for example the sub-menu Parts Cost under the Quote/Quality menu insert the following in the MARKUP.INI file.

[TailoredMenus]
Quote/Quality|Parts Cost=N 

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• Note 1: If the [TailoredMenus] section is not in your MARKUP.INI file you can manually insert it at the top of the file.
• Note 2: If after editing the MARKUP.INI file in the Windows directory you don't see any change in the software display then on certain computers you may need to also copy the MARKUP.INI you just edited in to the VirtualStore directory. The VirtualStore directory for Windows which is usually located in a path similar to the following c:\Users\xxxx\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Windows and copy the file there and overwrite any existing file.

  Test to see if it displays ok.

• Note 3: If you are still having difficulty and the software menu(s) are not changing on the display then try the following. First copy the MARKUP.INI in the WINDOWS directory to your desktop. Then from your desktop open the MARKUP.INI and edit in your [TailoredMenus] section as desired and save the file. Next copy the MARKUP.INI file on your desktop back to your WINDOWS directory and overwrite the file already there. Next copy the MARKUP.INI file on your desktop back to your VirtualStore directory for Windows which is usually located in a path similar to the following c:\Users\xxxx\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Windows and copy the file there and overwrite any existing file.

Custom Splash Screen

TO USE: To modify the SPLASH page go to the MARKUP.INI file located in the WINDOWS directory. Then under the [TailoredMenus] section insert SplashText=INSPECTION STATION VIEWER. Below is an example:

[TailoredMenus]
SplashText=INSPECTION STATION VIEWER

Result:

• Note 1: If the [TailoredMenus] section is not in your MARKUP.INI file you can manually insert it at the top of the file.
• Note 2: If after editing the MARKUP.INI file in the Windows directory you don't see any change in the software display then on certain computers you may need to also copy the MARKUP.INI you just edited in to the VirtualStore directory. The VirtualStore directory for Windows which is usually located in a path similar to the following c:\Users\xxxx\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Windows and copy the file there and overwrite any existing file.

  Test to see if it displays ok.

• Note 3: If you are still having difficulty and the software menu(s) are not changing on the display then try the following. First copy the MARKUP.INI in the WINDOWS directory to your desktop. Then from your desktop open the MARKUP.INI and edit in your [TailoredMenus] section as desired and save the file. Next copy the MARKUP.INI file on your desktop back to your WINDOWS directory and overwrite the file already there. Next copy the MARKUP.INI file on your desktop back to your VirtualStore directory for Windows which is usually located in a path similar to the following c:\Users\xxxx\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Windows and copy the file there and overwrite any existing file.