Hi,
I was wondering if there is a way to ad an inputbox directly in the Ilogic browser or even in the Ribbon so you can directly enter some tekst or numbers whitout opening a form. This would eliminate some clicks and searching for pop-up windows.
thank you all
Hi @h.w.landGE4MY. I assume this 'InputBox' would be directly linked to something like a Parameter or iProperty type object? The short answer would be no...at least not right now, and not directly in either the iLogic browser or the Ribbon. Within the iLogic browser's Forms or Global Forms tab, we can edit what the area under those tabs looks like, but only in pretty basic ways, such as adding a button to directly run an iLogic rule, or launch an iLogic form, or to include things like Group, Tab Group, Row, Empty Space, or a Splitter (things you can normally put into an iLogic form). But we can not add things like Parameter or iProperty editing textboxes. In a RibbonPanel , we can use the methods shown under this Link to add different types of controls, but none of those control types is for something like a simple InputBox that is linked directly to something like a Parameter or iProperty within a specific document. One similar thing we may be able to do is put something like a Form or dialog into a DockableWindow.
In other forum posts I showed an example iLogic rule that would launch an iLogic Form, then place that form into a DockableWindow. But that is not the 'proper' way to do something like this, because it would only be very temporarily useful, and would have to be manually docked, and manually disposed of when done. I have also similarly launched the Parameters dialog, then put it into a DockableWindow using the same process. But what you would need is to develop your own Inventor add-in (ApplicationAddIn) which would start when Inventor starts, and end when Inventor quits, which would create and host the functionality of the stuff in that DockableWindow, and react to any 'events' that happen to the stuff in it. But I have not created my own complete Inventor add-in's yet, so I would not be much help there.
Wesley Crihfield
(Not an Autodesk Employee)
