Adding new buttons via macro

I started to write our setup procedures for adding toolbar buttons for
some of our standard macros and I got to thinking... hey wouldn't be
cool if I could write a macro that setup all the standard macros for a
new user? This opened a whole frustrating afternoon of looking
through the Solidworks API.

1. Is it possible to record macros when customizing the toolbar? It
doesn't seem to record anything when I do it, but I didn't know if
there was a way to force it to.
2. My most promising line of attack came when reading about people
who create whole new toolbars for addins using addToolbarCommand2, but
I want to add it to an existing toolbar. To do this I need something
called a Cookie, but I don't see a way to get a cookie for an existing
toolbar.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Ben

 

On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 13:51:54 -0800, ben wrote:



Why not use the configuration saving utility after setting up the
toolbars the way you want them?

TOP

 

Use Copy Settings Wizard and create a setting for the macro toolbar.
Put the macros and the swsettings.sldreg in a common folder and you
can ask the user to run the file once.

Deepak

 

Thanks. This might be a better (and simpler) solution!