Disable button in menu and ribbon file

[basenxuser]

Dear all,

I have developed a custom ribbon toolbar and menu file. They are loading fine during launch of NX.
I want disable few buttons during launch of NX.

Kindly explain if you have ideas.

Thanks in advance,
basenxuser

 

[NutAce]

Disabling buttons you can do by editing the Ribbon toolbars (RTB). Find in there the button you want to disable and place an Exclamation mark in front of the lines used for that button.
the same principle applies for the Menu files (.men)


In below example the first button has been disabled in the RTB

BEGIN_GROUP Usability Tools
LABEL Usability Tools

	[COLOR=#CC0000]![/color]BUTTON OPEN_R_DRAWING
	[COLOR=#CC0000]![/color]LABEL Open Related Drawing
	[COLOR=#CC0000]![/color]BITMAP rd.bmp
	[COLOR=#CC0000]![/color]ACTION $SITE_PREF_PATH\2D3DSwitch\OpenRelatedDrawing.dll

	BUTTON  SWITCH_TO_3D
	LABEL   Switch to Related Drawing 
	BITMAP	t3d.bmp
	ACTION $SITE_PREF_PATH\2D3DSwitch\3D2Dswitch.dll

And for the Menu file

!
!  NX main menu file
!
! 
!
VERSION 121

CREATE UG_GATEWAY_MAIN_MENUBAR
TITLE

TOP_MENU

  [COLOR=#CC0000]![/color]CASCADE_BUTTON UG_FILE
  [COLOR=#CC0000]![/color]LABEL &File

  CASCADE_BUTTON UG_EDIT
  LABEL &Edit

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

Building new PLM environment from Scratch using NX12 / TC11

 

[basenxuser]

Hello Ronald,

Thank you for the solution!

I am looking for something like this:

BUTTON SWITCH_TO_3D
LABEL Switch to Related Drawing
BITMAP t3d.bmp
ACTION $SITE_PREF_PATH\2D3DSwitch\3D2Dswitch.dll
SENSITIVITY OFF

I want to load the button but to control the sensitivity.
Can you help on this?

Thanks,
basenxuser

 

[NutAce]

I am not aware of such a function in the toolbars, or even if it is possible to add it.

How to configure toolbars, ribbons and menu's you can find in attached document.


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

Building new PLM environment from Scratch using NX12 / TC11

 

[Toost]

What would be the logic that would enable or disable the button ?
If application = Modeling , enable
If application = Drafting, disable ?


- This is example text for this thread , right ?
"
BUTTON SWITCH_TO_3D
LABEL Switch to Related Drawing
"

Regards
Tomas

 

[NutAce]

What would be the logic that would enable or disable the button ?
If application = Modeling , enable
If application = Drafting, disable ?

For above question,

Wherever you have placed your custom toolbars / Ribbons you create a folder "application".
In this folder you can create for each application in NX a subfolder like below.

For each application you create a toolbar showing only the buttons which apply to this application and you place them in the subfolders.

In your NX installation folder you can find such a folder structure already. You could also use this one.

NX11\UGII\menus\profiles



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

Building new PLM environment from Scratch using NX12 / TC11

 

[basenxuser]

Dear all,

Thanks for all the replies.

I found the solution (Courtesy: Siemens forum).
Please find below the explanation:
---------------------------------------
There are two ways to launch a program while NX is starting up, and they do this at different points in the initialization process.
Try taking your .DLL out of the startup folder - leave the .MEN and .rtb files there.
Now define an environment variable called USER_STARTUP to point to the full path and file name of your .DLL.
This will cause it to launch much later in the process, and NX might be ready at that point to allow you to manipulate your button.
-----------------------------------------
Solution:
I created a NXOpen DLL that finds the button using ID and controls the sensitivity. This DLL is pointed in the USER_STARTUP environment variable.

Thanks,
basenxuser

 

[PSI-CAD]

Hi,
Cool !!
Could you share your vb ?
Thanks in advance



Regards
Didier Psaltopoulos

http://www.psi-cad.fr