Arguments in Ribbon Bar 1

[NutAce]

Hello all,

Has anybody ever tried to pass an argument to a dll started from a ribbon (or toolbar)?

I tried;

ACTION Start $SITE_PREF_PATH\ForEngineDocsCGM\ForEngineDocs_Plotcgm.dll Ai

And

ACTION "Start $SITE_PREF_PATH\ForEngineDocsCGM\ForEngineDocs_Plotcgm.dll Ai"

But I get the message from NX telling me; "Unknown Action Type"

To elaborate, when I run user fucntion from NX I can pass an argument as show below...can I do this directly on the Action line of the ribbon (toolbar)?

Ronald van den Broek
Senior Application Engineer
Winterthur Gas & Diesel Ltd
NX9 / TC10.1.2

Building new PLM environment from Scratch using NX11 / TC11

 

[petulf]

Try

ACTION $SITE_PREF_PATH\ForEngineDocsCGM\ForEngineDocs_Plotcgm.dll("Ai")

 

[NutAce]

Hi Petulf,

tried it but now I'm getting "None of the actions for specified button were registered"


Ronald van den Broek
Senior Application Engineer
Winterthur Gas & Diesel Ltd
NX9 / TC10.1.2

Building new PLM environment from Scratch using NX11 / TC11

 

[phillpd]

It should be possible by making use of the BUTTON name

NX 9.0.3.4
NX 11.0.1.11 (Testing)
Windows 7 (Windows 8.1 Tablet)

 

[petulf]

NutAce, weird this is an excerpt from one of our .tbr files

BEGIN_GROUP BETA_MODELING
GROUP_STYLE DEFAULT
LABEL Modeling

BUTTON EDIT_THREAD
LABEL Edit M-Thread
MESSAGE Changes size of a reuse thread
BITMAP ${NX_CUSTOM_LIB}\ToolBars\bitmaps\edit_thread.bmp
ACTION ${NX_CUSTOM_LIB}\scripts\edit_thread.vb

BUTTON EDIT_G_THREAD
LABEL Edit GHT G-Thread
MESSAGE Changes size of a GHT reuse G-thread
BITMAP ${NX_CUSTOM_LIB}\ToolBars\bitmaps\edit_g_thread.bmp
ACTION ${NX_CUSTOM_LIB}\scripts\edit_thread.vb("bspp")

END_GROUP

 

[NutAce]

I understood that is actually only possible using a Menu file...so I created one as below.

VERSION 120

EDIT UG_GATEWAY_MAIN_MENUBAR

TOP_MENU
	CASCADE_BUTTON DOCUMENTATION_PREPARATIONS
	LABEL Documentation Preparations
	
END_OF_TOP_MENU

MENU DOCUMENTATION_PREPARATIONS

	BUTTON ILLUSTRATOR_CGM
	LABEL  Illustrator CGM Export
	BITMAP $SITE_PREF_PATH\ForIllustratorCGM\Startup\Plotcgm4Illustrator.bmp
	ACTIONS Start $SITE_PREF_PATH\ForEngineDocsCGM\ForEngineDocs_Plotcgm.dll(Ai)

END_OF_MENU

Ronald van den Broek
Senior Application Engineer
Winterthur Gas & Diesel Ltd
NX9 / TC10.1.2

Building new PLM environment from Scratch using NX11 / TC11

 

[NutAce]

NutAce, weird this is an excerpt from one of our .tbr files

Hi Petulf, it works...had to remove the start from the begining of the line...
Thanks!

Ronald van den Broek
Senior Application Engineer
Winterthur Gas & Diesel Ltd
NX9 / TC10.1.2

Building new PLM environment from Scratch using NX11 / TC11