topic Re: Hook into Inventor process for progress in Inventor Programming Forum

Hook into Inventor process for progress

NachoShaw — Mon, 09 May 2022 07:40:48 GMT

Hey

Is there a way to hook into the inventor process for a progress feedback? Different models have different criteria and i'd like to properly report back instead of adding counters. An inventor model will provide a visual update in the bottom right but can we access that through API to use it ourselves?

Thanks

Re: Hook into Inventor process for progress

jdasilvaS39UQ — Tue, 10 May 2022 17:53:19 GMT

Yes, there is a built in ProgressBar object that will display on the bottom bar.

There is a good example in the API help menu "Using inventor's progress bars API sample"

' 64-bit version Public Declare PtrSafe Sub Sleep Lib "kernel32" (ByVal dwMilliseconds As LongLong) ' 32-bit version 'Public Declare Sub Sleep Lib "kernel32" (ByVal dwMilliseconds As Long) Public Sub TestDialogProgressBar() Dim iStepCount As Long iStepCount = 50 ' Create a new ProgressBar object. Dim oProgressBar As ProgressBar Set oProgressBar = ThisApplication.CreateProgressBar(False, iStepCount, "Test Progress") ' Set the message for the progress bar oProgressBar.Message = "Executing some process" Dim i As Long For i = 1 To iStepCount ' Sleep 0.2 sec to simulate some process Sleep 200 oProgressBar.Message = "Executing some process - " & i oProgressBar.UpdateProgress Next ' Terminate the progress bar. oProgressBar.Close End Sub Public Sub TestStatusBarProgressBar() Dim iStepCount As Long iStepCount = 50 ' Create a new ProgressBar object. Dim oProgressBar As ProgressBar Set oProgressBar = ThisApplication.CreateProgressBar(True, iStepCount, "Test Progress") ' Set the message for the progress bar oProgressBar.Message = "Executing some process" Dim i As Long For i = 1 To iStepCount ' Sleep 0.2 sec to simulate some process Sleep 200 oProgressBar.Message = "Executing some process - " & i oProgressBar.UpdateProgress Next ' Terminate the progress bar. oProgressBar.Close End Sub

Re: Hook into Inventor process for progress

NachoShaw — Sat, 14 May 2022 14:31:25 GMT

That doesn't hook into a process. I'm looking to see if I can hook in rather that build my own process and post its progress to a progress bar.

Re: Hook into Inventor process for progress

jdasilvaS39UQ — Mon, 16 May 2022 15:16:54 GMT

Ah, sorry I misunderstood. I don't know how to get info from an existing process