Setting Up A Solution To Use UI Tools

[Anonymous]

I'm working in ETO 2013 R2 (Update 1) and ETO Studio trying to use UI Tools for my project. We created our models in Inventor, adopted them, then imported the project directly into ETO Studio, and have done all coding work there. I began working through the UI Tools tutorial, adding dv and ui rules and mixins and such. Now I'm trying to add references, but my solution explorer doesn't look anything like the tutorial. I've clearly missed a big step along the way. 

I assume I need an Inventor Addin run it in Inventor, but where do I start? The tutorial kinda skips over that part ;).

[scott_anderson-adsk]

Hi Chris,

You are right that you need to add an Inventor Addin project. You can use the Inventor Add-In Template. You need to add the references to the windows forms project it creates. Good point that it isn't very clear about that. I'll file a defect for the documentation.

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Thanks Scott. And thanks for the link.

[Anonymous]

I'm finally getting back to this, and making good progress. I added the Inventor Addin project to my solution, added a button to the ribbon to show the UI. It's all good to this point. I'm working in VB, and the sample is in C#, which I don't have installed at the moment.

I think I'm missing something in the connection to the UIProject, as the dialog shows but the controls don't populate:

Do I need to do something in the button event handler? 

    Private Sub ShowUiButton_OnExecute(ByVal sender As Object, _
                                                         ByVal e As ButtonDefinitionWrapper.ExecuteEventArgs)
        Dim dlg As CBC_BridgeCraneUIProject = New CBC_BridgeCraneUIProject
        dlg.Show()
    End Sub

[scott_anderson-adsk]

You need to drag and drop an IntentUIProject component onto the form, and then set the PartProvider of the treeview control to it in the form's constructor, such as:

UiPartTree1.PartProvider = IntentUIProject1

[Anonymous]

Thanks Scott, I've done that. There's nothing I have to do when initializing the dialog to set the part provider or anything?

[Anonymous]

It turns out that trying to retro-fit the UI into an existing project was causing my major issues. I've restructured the design/mixin structure in the sample, and it's behaving better now, except for one issue that I'll post seperately.