FeatureManager C++

Hello,

I am writing a Addin for SW2003 with Visual C++ 7.

I have created a new FeatureManager design tree view with the
following methods


ModelDoc2->ICreateFeatureMgrView3 ( bitmap, toolTip, whichPane,
&retval )

retval->GetFeatMgrViewWnd(&handle)


The command creates a new (empty) view, but I don´t know what to do
with the returned CWnd handle (long) retval. I would like to add some
controls and other stuff, is this possible at all?
I´m very confused. Can someone give me a hint?

Regards,
Andreas

 

the CWnd is a regular MS Windows structure.
As said on the "Add Tab in FeatureManager Design Tree Example (VB)" page in
apihelp:

' Adding a custom tab to the FeatureManager Design Tree was
' previously only available to MFC-extension DLL addins and
' required a strong knowledge of MFC, Windows messaging, and
' Windows SDK. Problems were difficult to diagnose and
' fix.
' Further, the SolidWorks APIs for adding a tab to the
' FeatureManager design tree were highly MFC specific and,
' as such, were not COM-compliant.

' SolidWorks now has the ability to instantiate any

' arbitrary ActiveX control as a tab in the FeatureManager
' design tree. The new APIs are now fully COM-compliant
' and reduce the knowledge required for adding a tab.

so you'd better make an ActiveX control that does the job and place it on
the FM with

ModelViewManager::CreateFeatureMgrControl

 

Thanks for the response. I think you are right, the Activex control is
the better way.
So I made an control an tried to implement it in SW. Doing this with
VB was no Problem (there is an example on solidworks.com), but I can´t
manage it with VC++. Here are some pieces of the code i used


#import "c:\\test.ocx"
..
..
..

CComPtr<IModelDoc2> ModDoc;
CComPtr<IFeatMgrView> MgrView;
CComPtr<IModelViewManager> ModView;


iSwApp->get_IActiveDoc2(&ModDoc);

ModDoc->get_ModelViewManager(&ModView);


ModView->CreateFeatureMgrControl(icon,
A2BSTR("TEST.testCtrl.1"),A2BSTR(""),A2BSTR("Tip"),
swFeatMgrPaneBottom, &MgrView);


The code does .

 

Andreas,

Your code looks OK to me - I don't know what problem you are having.

I have put a BSD licensed sample on my downloads page (
http://www.cadcambridge.net/downloads.html ) that is equivalent to the SDK
VB sample, but implemented in C++. Hope this helps you out.

 

Hello Paul

Thank you very much!!! This is a very good example and it helped me to
solve the problem. Something with the picture stuff was wrong.

bye