Grouped Custom Commands in Context Menu

[spencer]

Hopefully there's a simple answer for this, but I'm trying to make a group of commands in the context menu but haven't had any luck. Doing everything through a VB.NET addin, commands are being added just fine on their own but I wanted to group some of that were related to each other (ie. a main command and come copies with different arguments).

Really I want it to be like the Component drop-down shown.

 

Any suggestions?

[bradeneuropeArthur]

Could you post your code that you are having that far?

Regards,

[spencer]

The entirety has a lot going on, but the important bits are like this:

'Stuff

Private WithEvents OriginConstrainCmd As Inventor.ButtonDefinition
Private WithEvents OriginConstrainCmdNX As Inventor.ButtonDefinition
Private WithEvents OriginConstrainCmdNY As Inventor.ButtonDefinition
Private WithEvents OriginConstrainCmdNZ As Inventor.ButtonDefinition

'More stuff
OriginConstrainCmd = objControlDefs.AddButtonDefinition("Origin Constrain", "OriginConstrainCmd", CommandTypesEnum.kQueryOnlyCmdType,,, "Constrains origins of selected parts to first selection.")
OriginConstrainCmdNX = objControlDefs.AddButtonDefinition("Exclude X Plane", "OriginConstrainCmdNX", CommandTypesEnum.kQueryOnlyCmdType,,, "")
OriginConstrainCmdNY = objControlDefs.AddButtonDefinition("Exclude Y Plane", "OriginConstrainCmdNY", CommandTypesEnum.kQueryOnlyCmdType,,, "")
OriginConstrainCmdNZ = objControlDefs.AddButtonDefinition("Exclude Z Plane", "OriginConstrainCmdNZ", CommandTypesEnum.kQueryOnlyCmdType,,, "")

'More Stuff
Private Sub addin_OnLinearContextMenu(SelectedEntities As ObjectsEnumerator, SelectionDevice As SelectionDeviceEnum, LinearMenu As CommandControls, AdditionalInfo As NameValueMap)
  LinearMenu.AddButton(OriginConstrainCmd)
  LinearMenu.AddButton(OriginConstrainCmdNX)
  LinearMenu.AddButton(OriginConstrainCmdNY)
  LinearMenu.AddButton(OriginConstrainCmdNZ)
End Sub

Commands themselves work fine, but on the Linear Menu object trying to use the other methods (AddButtonPopup, AddPopup, AddComboBox, AddSplitButton) all fail with a 'not implemented' error 

[bradeneuropeArthur]

Private WithEvents OriginConstrainCmd As Inventor.ButtonDefinition
Private WithEvents OriginConstrainCmdNX As Inventor.ButtonDefinition
Private WithEvents OriginConstrainCmdNY As Inventor.ButtonDefinition
Private WithEvents OriginConstrainCmdNZ As Inventor.ButtonDefinition

'More stuff
OriginConstrainCmd = objControlDefs.AddButtonDefinition("Origin Constrain", "OriginConstrainCmd", CommandTypesEnum.kQueryOnlyCmdType,,, "Constrains origins of selected parts to first selection.")
OriginConstrainCmdNX = objControlDefs.AddButtonDefinition("Exclude X Plane", "OriginConstrainCmdNX", CommandTypesEnum.kQueryOnlyCmdType,,, "")
OriginConstrainCmdNY = objControlDefs.AddButtonDefinition("Exclude Y Plane", "OriginConstrainCmdNY", CommandTypesEnum.kQueryOnlyCmdType,,, "")
OriginConstrainCmdNZ = objControlDefs.AddButtonDefinition("Exclude Z Plane", "OriginConstrainCmdNZ", CommandTypesEnum.kQueryOnlyCmdType,,, "")

'More Stuff
Private Sub addin_OnLinearContextMenu(SelectedEntities As ObjectsEnumerator, SelectionDevice As SelectionDeviceEnum, LinearMenu As CommandControls, AdditionalInfo As NameValueMap)
  
Dim a As ObjectCollection
a = ThisApplication.TransientObjects.CreateObjectCollection
a.Add(OriginConstrainCmd)
a.Add(OriginConstrainCmdNX)
a.Add(OriginConstrainCmdNY)
a.Add(OriginConstrainCmdNZ)


LinearMenu.AddSplitButton(OriginConstrainCmd,a, True, True, "BEFORE WHAT", True)
'''''''''else LinearMenu.AddSplitButton(OriginConstrainCmd,a, True, True,)

End Sub

[spencer]

No dice unfortunately, still throwing exceptions on right-click.

System.NotImplementedException: 'Not implemented (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80004001 (E_NOTIMPL))'

[bradeneuropeArthur]

also if you declare the buttondef as object

like dim OriginConstrainCmd as object

[spencer]

Neither declaring nor direct casting as an object seemed to make any difference

[etaCAD · Accepted solution]

A few years ago I tried as well to add grouped commands to the context menu and did many tests but there was no solution. This was not supported by the API.

Unfortunately, I think nothing changed so far.

[bradeneuropeArthur]

Hi @etaCAD ,

I remember that too.

For the Context menu this is not supported.

For the Ribbon and the menu's it is possible.

Regards,

[spencer]

Figured that might be the case. At least I know for sure and stop trying to find a way to make it work