API: Create toolbar from SWP-file: AddToolbarCommand2 (get cookie)

Hello All,

I'm trying to create a toolbar with a SWX macro (swp-file).

I can create a toolbar using AddToolbar, and I do see the buttons using
AddToolbarCommand, but I just cannot assign a function to a button.
I know how to do this using AddToolbarCommand2. But if I use this
function in a SWX macro, a Cookie is required. But I don't know how to
get the Cookie.

Has anyone done this before and/or has anyone have an example??

Thanks in advance for your reaction/help.

Kind regards,

JJ

 

No Idea!

mvd

 

AFAIK, you cannot create a Toolbar from a macro. The problem isn't the
"cookie", but rather the "callback" functions you'll need to attach to
each button.
If you think about it, clicking a button in SolidWorks calls some
compiled code, while you'd want to call the VBA interpreter, passing
the name of a function as parameter. So it can't be the same kind of
buttons, you'll need some special glue code to call the VBA code, and
that's precisely the goal of the customizable Macro buttons.
Now the question is : how to programmatically create Macro Buttons ?
Till now I didn't find a way to do it. My solution today is to create
the Macro buttons you need, then save the section(s) of the registry
that hold this customization, and add the reg. file on target PC when
installing the macro...
There would be another solution : write a simple add-in that vreates
the toolbar and buttons that call back the macro using
SldWorks::RunMacro . You could define the buttons either in a .ini file
or even from the macro itself by calling the add-in through
SldWorks::CallBack...
Did anyone already wrote this ?

 

Hello Philippe,

Thanks for your reaction.
What I did was: I created an add-in that reads out (*.swp) files in a
(macro) directory. Based on the macro name, he shows/hides buttons. I
did this with an add-in, but when using an add-in (even if you use one
that has been created from scratch using the SDK) the performance to
load a large assembly goes down tremendously (4x slower). What we tried
is to use our PDM program to run a SWX macro to load/unload the add-in,
but this seems to be unstable. That's why I am looking for a way to
create a toolbar using a SWX macro (the one we can start using our PDM
system).

I manage to create a toolbar using AddToolbar and AddToolbarCommand. It
shows up, but defining the callback functions can only be done if a
cookie is know. That's why I need the cookie. Now it crashes at this
point. If I have a cookie, I can see if the callback functions will
work.

Kind regards,

JJ


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