spacebar pushes button

[Anonymous]

I must be doing something wrong as far as keeping my form on top or else I
have goofed something up in either the form or a textbox setting, but I
can't find anything wrong.

When I am typing in a textbox in my addin, and hit space, it starts another
session of my addin.

In the declerations section I have

Private WithEvents frmNewForm As frmWithATextBox= Nothing

Private Declare Function SetParent Lib "user32" Alias "SetParent" (ByVal
hWndChild As Int32, ByVal hWndNewParent As Int32) As Int32



And in the obtnDef_OnExecute

frmNewForm = New frmWithATextBox(m_inventorApplication)

SetParent(frmNewForm .Handle.ToInt32(), m_inventorApplication.MainFrameHWND)


Anyone see what I might be doing wrong to cause the spacebar to execute the
obtnDef_OnExecute sub?

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Kent Keller

[Anonymous]

This problem can be easily solved by starting InteractionEvents whenever your command is activated (even though you do not intend to use them specifically). You can do this like this:

InteractionEvents _interactEvents = _pApplication.CommandManager.CreateInteractionEvents();
_interactEvents.Start();

Please keep in mind that if you have not document opened, the above code will fail.

Hope this helps,

Roxana

[Anonymous]

This problem can be easily solved by starting InteractionEvents whenever your command is activated (even though you do not intend to use them specifically). You can do this like this:

InteractionEvents _interactEvents = _pApplication.CommandManager.CreateInteractionEvents();
_interactEvents.Start();

Please keep in mind that if you have not document opened, the above code will fail.

Hope this helps,

Roxana

[Anonymous]

Hi Kent,

I'm not sure that the SetParent API behaves as expected with .Net dialogs.
Attached are some instructions for a .Net specific method of creating and
parenting a dialog. I think this should solve the problem.
--
Brian Ekins
Autodesk Inventor API
http://blogs.autodesk.com/modthemachine

[Rene-J]

Hi Kent



In .Net

When I call a form I do it this way



Private Sub Button_OnExecute



Dim m_MyForm As MyForm = New MyForm()SetParent(m_MyForm.Handle.ToInt32(), InventorApplication.MainFrameHWND)

MyForm.InventorApplication = InventorApplication

m_MyForm.ShowInTaskbar = False

m_MyForm.ShowDialog()

End sub



In my form

Public Class MyForm

Private Shared oApp As Inventor.Application

Private Declare Function SetParent Lib "user32" Alias "SetParent" (ByVal hWndChild As Int32, ByVal hWndNewParent As Int32) As Int32

#Region "Properties"

Public Shared Property InventorApplication() As Inventor.Application

Get

InventorApplication = oApp

End Get

Set(ByVal Value As Inventor.Application)

oApp = Value

End Set

End Property

#End Region



René J

[Anonymous]

Brian

I have been using this and it seems to work well, except that quite often
when I close my addin, instead of Inventor being the topmost window, some
other program jumps to the top. Any idea what might be causing it or what I
might be doing wrong?

Thanks.

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Kent Keller
"Brian Ekins (Autodesk)" wrote in message
news:6078705@discussion.autodesk.com...
Hi Kent,

I'm not sure that the SetParent API behaves as expected with .Net dialogs.
Attached are some instructions for a .Net specific method of creating and
parenting a dialog. I think this should solve the problem.
--
Brian Ekins
Autodesk Inventor API
http://blogs.autodesk.com/modthemachine