Access inventor button icon

[TheCarl]

I am trying to build a treenode imagelist with some button icons.  I have a been able to convert an IpictureDisp to image.  So if I convert an image to a IPictureDisp, I can convert it back to an image.  However, if I try to get the icon as IpicturDisp (.StandardIcon) through a command control definition, it does not work.  Can we access the icon after the button has been defined and how ?

[adam.nagy]

Hi,

Are you trying to do that from an AddIn or from outside another exe?

If the latter, then that will probably not work:

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Inventor-Customization/Error-adding-image-to-ImageSet/td-p/3271651

Cheers,

[TheCarl]

Hi Adam,

              I am doing this with an VB.net addin - on Windows 7 on a 64 bit machine - Inventor 2015.

 I can access the .StandardIcon property for the button, splitbutton, splitbutton MRU and popup button control definitions but when I am trying to get the icon from a Toggle Pop-up control I get an error.  I have simplified my code to in the following manner so it is maybe easier to understand what I am doing wrong :

    Sub GetIcon(ByVal oCommand As Inventor.ControlDefinition)

        ...

        If oCommand.ControlType = ControlTypeEnum.kTogglePopupControl Then

            Dim oIcon As stdole.IPictureDisp

            oIcon = oCommand.StandardIcon  ' ****  This will generate the error #91 : object variable not defined

        End If

        ...

    End Sub

Thanks

[adam.nagy]

Hi Carl,

It seems that not all Ribbon items have a valid control definition object, and even if they do they might not provide an icon - I guess because they are not a real ControlDefinition, they are just placeholders, not associated to a command that could actually be run.

http://adndevblog.typepad.com/manufacturing/2014/07/get-ribbon-images.html

Cheers,

[NachitoMax]

Hi

Funnily nough, I came across this about 3 minutes before seeing your post. NOTE: I wasn't looking to do this, just saw a post and looked at it out of interest.

Anyway, this might help 🙂

http://adndevblog.typepad.com/manufacturing/2014/07/get-ribbon-images.html

Nige