Flyout menu

[GeorgK]

Hello together,

is it possible to add a flyout menu? There was only the response that it does not work.

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-customization/create-a-flyout-menu-in-context-menu-net/m-p/53...

Is there any sample?

Best regards

Georg

[Jon.Dean]

Hi Georg,

There is no Flyout menu as such but if you minimize the menus, you can get a sort of Flyout.

Otherwise the answer is no.

Jon.

[GeorgK]

Hello Jon,

I mean the flyout when you click the RMB for example in a drawing and get the context menu. It is possible to make a flyout in thr ribbon bar.

Georg

[ekinsb]

I'm a bit confused what it is you're trying to do.  You mention a context menu but also the ribbon.  I believe the only place fly-outs are supported in the user-interface is in the conext menu, as shown below.  Is this what you want to do?

 

[GeorgK]

Hello Brian,

its the user-interface with the conext menu. Sorry for the confusion. Do you have an example? I tried to add it to the ordinate dimension add-in

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-customization/edit-ordinatedimension-with-vb-net/td-p/3759478

But I could not get it running.

Georg

[Jon.Dean]

Hi Georg,

Hopefully Brian will get back to you soon with a reply.

Jon.

[xiaodong_liang]

Hi Georg,

could you elaborate what is your difficulty? In the other post my colleague Adam recommended a blog which exactly introduces how to create context menu. Have you been able to make that sample project work? In case you did not find it, I enclosed the download link directly.

 VB.NET project

Or, this sample is not what you need?

[GeorgK]

Hello Xiaodong,

the problem is to make a flyout menu for a drawing. I would like to edit an ordinate dimension and add some text at the end.

Thank you Georg

[adam.nagy]

Hi Georg,

You can add single items to the context menu, that's not a problem.

The problem is with adding children to them. This behaviour has been logged in our database under id #56842, but I think it has not been sorted yet. 😞

So for the time being you would have to add all the children a level higher:

Sorry for the bad news 😞

Cheers,

[GeorgK]

Hello Adam,

is it possible to make a separate context menu when I choose an ordinate dimension? Do you have a sample for it? The standard menu would be very long.

Thank you

Georg

[adam.nagy]

Hi Georg,

You customize the context menu by modifying its content inside the "OnLinearMarkingMenu" event handler.

That event also has a "SelectedEntities" input parameter, so based on what entities are selected you can modify the context menu's content differently

Cheers, 

[GeorgK]

Hello Adam,

do you have an example for it? How to edit the ordinate dimension and add some text? To edit the ordinate dimension is solved here:

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-customization/edit-ordinatedimension-with-vb-net/m-p/3759478/...

But how to get it in the context menu? I tried it but could not get it running.

Thank you Georg

[adam.nagy · Accepted solution]

Hi Georg,

I'm not sure what issue you run into.

I've written a post that might help:

http://adndevblog.typepad.com/manufacturing/2015/03/entity-specific-context-menu.html

Cheers,

[GeorgK]

Hello Adam,

thats great. Thank you.

Georg

[GeorgK]

Hello Adam,

is it possible to add this to an OrdinateDimensionSet?

Thank you Georg

[adam.nagy]

You mean adding it to the context menu?

You just have to check for that entity type as well and if it is that, then add it.

[GeorgK]

Hello Adam,

I mean to change the program from an ordinatedimension to an ordinatedimensionset:

http://adndevblog.typepad.com/manufacturing/2015/03/entity-specific-context-menu.html

Sorry for the confusion.

Georg

[adam.nagy]

You just have to modify the bd1_OnExecute function's code to handle that:

Private Sub bd1_OnExecute(ByVal Context As NameValueMap)
  Dim ss As SelectSet
  Set ss = ThisApplication.ActiveDocument.SelectSet

  Dim ordDim As OrdinateDimension
  For Each ordDim In ss
    ' If the dimension belongs to a dimension set
    ' then do the operation on all the other dimensions
    ' that belong to that set
    If Not ordDim.OrdinateDimensionSet Is Nothing Then
      Dim ordDimSet As OrdinateDimensionSet
      Set ordDimSet = ordDim.OrdinateDimensionSet
      
      Dim ordDim2 As OrdinateDimension
      For Each ordDim2 In ordDimSet.Members
        ' Change the text of the selected ordinate dimension
        ordDim2.Text.FormattedText = _
          ordDim2.Text.FormattedText + "+"
      Next
    Else
      ' Change the text of the selected ordinate dimension
      ordDim.Text.FormattedText = _
        ordDim.Text.FormattedText + "+"
    End If
  Next
End Sub

Cheers,

[adam.nagy · Accepted solution]

Hi Georg,

Is this what you need?

http://adndevblog.typepad.com/manufacturing/2015/04/set-context-menu-for-ordinatedimensionset-member...

I really hope so 🙂

Cheers,

[GeorgK]

Hello Adam,

thats exactly what I am looking for.

Thank you very much.

Georg