Anyone know how how to grey out a macro icon?

[MrMiller]

I would like to grey out my macro icons when they are unavailable to certain areas? For example if I have an icon that performs assembly operations I would like it greyed out during drawings. I know I could just put it in the assembly toolbar but would like to do this instead so I can group all our custom macro icons in one toolbar.

Anyone have an answer?

 

[SBaugh]

Enhancement Request

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP

http://www.3dvisiontech.com

http://www.scottjbaugh.com

faq731-376

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

You could create groups of your macros, Assembly, Part, etc, then just include those in their respective toolbars.

from (the City of) Barrie, Ontario.

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[Regg]

You could also do a check when the macro starts to determine if the current active document is what it is suppose to be. If not, have a gentle error message tell the user that the macro cannot be run, then end the macro.

 

[TheTick]

If your macro is specific to a document type, add a few lines of code to the beginning of your macros to detect document type. This is prudent in all SW API programming.

 

[Stoker]

An example of testing for document type would be:

Sub main()

Set swApp = CreateObject("SldWorks.Application")
Set Doc = swApp.ActiveDoc

If ((Doc Is Nothing) Or (Not (Doc.GetType Eqv swDocDRAWING))) Then
Msg = "A drawing document must be active to use this command!"
LongStatus = swApp.SendMsgToUser2(Msg, swMbWarning, swMbOk)
End

Else
Doc.PrintDirect

End If

End Sub