topic Re: How to Get Document Object from Context Menu? in Inventor Programming Forum

How to Get Document Object from Context Menu?

mfoster9TD82 — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 21:34:30 GMT

Hello,
Does anyone know a way to get the selected Document object from the Browser in a OnContextMenu event?

I made a custom context menu button, but I can't figure out how to get the selected Document object from the context menu user event

private void UserInputEvents_OnContextMenu(SelectionDeviceEnum SelectionDevice, NameValueMap AdditionalInfo, CommandBar CommandBar) { ...}

or from the button click event

private void CCIFSInfoRightClick_OnExecute(NameValueMap Context) {...}

Anyone have any insights or ideas?

Re: How to Get Document Object from Context Menu?

C_Haines_ENG — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 01:48:45 GMT

Wow I had no clue you could add your own context menu items!

I don't code in VBA and I'm guessing based on how I think this action would go. I only see:

UserInputEvents.OnLinearMarkingMenu( SelectedEntities As ObjectsEnumerator, SelectionDevice As SelectionDeviceEnum, LinearMenu As CommandControls, AdditionalInfo As NameValueMap )

You would be looking for an event that had "SelectedEntities as ObjectEnumerator" in it. If you have that firing correctly and its getting one object, I assume that it will be a kBrowserNodeObject. You can get the object with .NativeObject. This will get the componentoccurrence you selected.

You should definitely post the whole code though.

Re: How to Get Document Object from Context Menu?

mfoster9TD82 — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 16:37:34 GMT

Good find! I was using UserInputEvents.OnContextMenu which doesn't look like it is in the API documentation anymore...
I figured out a way to do it with OnContextMenu, you can just look at

InventoInventorApplication.ActiveDocument.SelectSetrApplication.ActiveDocument.SelectSet

But I think the OnLinearMarkingMenu is probably the more supported method so I'll probably switch to using that, It looks like they do about the same thing.