Help with automatically loading a .cui(x) file on startup

[Anonymous]

Hi all,

I am trying to get a menu file to load automatically on application startup with AutoCAD 2010. I have tried 3 different ways of doing this and run into 3 different problems.

The first way is with the following code, and this works fine when loading the module via netload, but I need to have the module loaded automatically when AutoCAD starts, and the call to SendStringToExecute fails because the Application.DocumentManager.MdiActiveDocument is not yet available:

//disable dialogs
Application.DocumentManager.MdiActiveDocument.SendStringToExecute("filedia 0 ", false, false, true);
Application.DocumentManager.MdiActiveDocument.SendStringToExecute("cuiload " + fileNameWithQuotes + "\n", false, false, true);
//enable dialogs
Application.DocumentManager.MdiActiveDocument.SendStringToExecute("filedia 1 ", false, false, true);

The second way is with the following code, which works with both netload and when the module is loaded when AutoCAD starts, but the last call to ads_queueexpr to re-enable the file dialogs is not working, so after the code is run the user has to manually type "filedia 1" to re-enable the dialogs:

ads_queueexpr(unicodeEncoding.GetBytes("(setvar \"FILEDIA\" 0)"));
String fileNameWithQuotes = "\"" + fileName + "\"";
ads_queueexpr(unicodeEncoding.GetBytes("(Command \"_.CUILOAD\")"));
ads_queueexpr(unicodeEncoding.GetBytes(fileNameWithQuotes));
ads_queueexpr(unicodeEncoding.GetBytes("(setvar \"FILEDIA\" 1)"));

The third way is with the following code, which I based on the following sample: http://adn.autodesk.com/adn/servlet/item?siteID=4814862&id=13109407&linkID=4900509 This code doesn't work at all, with netload or when loading on startup, and in fact is crashing AutoCAD:

//disable dialogs
resultBuffer = new ResultBuffer();
resultBuffer.Add(new TypedValue(5005, "FILEDIA"));
resultBuffer.Add(new TypedValue(5005, "0"));
acedCmd(resultBuffer.UnmanagedObject);

String fileNameWithQuotes = "\"" + fileName + "\"";
resultBuffer = new ResultBuffer();
resultBuffer.Add(new TypedValue(5005, "_CUILOAD"));
resultBuffer.Add(new TypedValue(5005, fileNameWithQuotes));
acedCmd(resultBuffer.UnmanagedObject);

//enable dialogs
resultBuffer = new ResultBuffer();
resultBuffer.Add(new TypedValue(5005, "FILEDIA"));
resultBuffer.Add(new TypedValue(5005, "1"));
acedCmd(resultBuffer.UnmanagedObject);

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

[cadMeUp]

Maybe you can try this, hopefully it will work for you, I've got this for AutoCAD 2010:
{code}
using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;

// AutoCAD Specific
using Autodesk.AutoCAD.DatabaseServices;
using Autodesk.AutoCAD.Runtime;
using Autodesk.AutoCAD.ApplicationServices;
using Autodesk.AutoCAD.EditorInput;
using Autodesk.AutoCAD.Interop;
using Autodesk.AutoCAD.Interop.Common;
//using Autodesk.AutoCAD.Customization; // Reference to AcCui.dll in 'inc-win32' or 'inc-x64'

using AcadApp = Autodesk.AutoCAD.ApplicationServices.Application;

[assembly: ExtensionApplication(typeof(_Master.ExtApp))]

namespace _Master
{
public class ExtApp : IExtensionApplication
{
public ExtApp()
{
}

public void Initialize()
{
string cuiFileName = @"C:\tester.cuix";
AcadApplication acadApp = (AcadApplication)Autodesk.AutoCAD.ApplicationServices.Application.AcadApplication;
acadApp.MenuGroups.Load(cuiFileName, null);

//From reference to AcCui.dll
//CustomizationSection sec = new CustomizationSection(@"C:\tester.cuix");
}

public void Terminate()
{
}
}
}
{code}

[cadMeUp]

Sorry I hit the post message button prematurely.

I also wanted to say, I tried adding a reference to the Autodesk.AutoCAD.Customization and use some objects in there but can't find a method in there right now that will load a .cuix file. There are alot of useful objects within the Autodesk.AutoCAD.Customization namespace though.

This line will open a .cuix file but not load it, just loads into the object:
CustomizationSection sec = new CustomizationSection(@"C:\tester.cuix");

[Kevin.Bell]

cadmeup - did you get this to work??

I'm trying to load my custom ribbon tab from my CUIx file, but am surprised that it cannot be done with LISP...