Tutorial to turn Macro into DLL?

Does anybody have a tutorial for turning a Macro into a DLL?
Apparently there was one at www.markkulehtola.net but it seems to have
been removed.

 

If you look on SolidWorks.com
(http://www.solidworks.com/pages/services/APIDownloads.html?PID=121),
anything referencing adding menus will show you the basic structure.

 

Thanks Evan, but I need something that starts from the beginning and
describes the process. Any other thoughts?

Regards,

Anthony

 

<http://www.esoxrepublic.com/devtools/>

Project to take existng macro and turn it into an addin with toolbars
and menu picks. Includes macro source, toolbar bitmaps, and other
resources.

Pay special attention to how you structure your macro. Do what you can
to make it "addin ready" (this is discussed in the Powerpoint
presentation).

 

Thanks Roland. By the way I'm having some trouble with my macro. The
goal is to start with a drawing, open the associated part, and read out
some custom properties of the part. For some reason the macro only
works if you have already opened the part in your current session (even
if you've since closed it). The offending lines are:

'Open and activate the referenced Model
Set swDrawModel = swApp.OpenDoc6(ModelName, DocType,
swOpenDocOptions_Silent, "", nErrors, nWarnings)
Set swDrawModel = swApp.ActivateDoc2(ModelName, False, nRetval)
ClientCode = Trim(swDrawModel.CustomInfo2("", "ClientCode"))

The error message is "Object variable or with block variable not set",
and the offending article is 'swDrawModel.CustomInfo2(...'

Any ideas?

 

Roland - don't worry, I just debugged it. Apparently you can't use the
full file path in the ActivateDoc2 command. Substituting a string
called sModelName (model name only, no directory info) into the
ActivateDoc2 command got it working.

Thanks for the Powerpoint, its awesome. Wish I'd been there, as I'm
not clear on some of the steps. Will post any questions.

Regards,

Anthony

 

I'm not sure you need to use ActivateDoc2 after opening the document,
since OpenDoc6 already sets the swDrawModel object to the desired file.
Maybe do a quick check to verify that the newly opened doc is active
before activating it (again). The trouble with ActivateDoc2 and the
path name is puzzling, as it should work with the full path name.

If you need to be sure the doc is activated, perhaps use
ModelDoc2::GetTitle or ModelDoc2::GetPathName to get the name string.