Accessing the "Process" infobox with Inventor API

[Anders_Olsen]

I have created a custom Inventor Addin for the company I work for, with various utilities and tools. We also use an profesionally developed Inventor toolset, which somehow is able to access the "Process" infobox, which sometimes shows up in Inventor, e.g. telling you that your current document hasn't been saved in a while.

This tool uses the infobox to inform the user when a pdf or dxf has been successfully exported.

My question is: how are they able to access this part of the UI? I would love to be able to communicate information to my colleagues, which is not in the format of a prompt, that you have to dismiss, when it shows up.

I know I can also use Inventor Progressbars using "ThisApplication.CreateProgressBar", but that freezes the session while it's showing up, and it's either very big and dominant or very hidden in the bottom left corner of the application.

[johnsonshiue]

Hi! I am not aware of an Inventor API access for that control.

Many thanks!

[Anders_Olsen · Accepted solution]

I found it on my own. It is accessible via Inventor API, as the object "BalloonTip". It's defined, accessed and displayed as follows:

ThisApplication.UserInterfaceManager.BalloonTips.Add("name", "title", "Default message")
ThisApplication.UserInterfaceManager.BalloonTips.Item("name").Message = "Change the default message, if need be"
ThisApplication.UserInterfaceManager.BalloonTips.Item("name").Display

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