Like most people here, I'd struggled badly at the beginning to figure out
how to create an add-in
I felt like working in the dark of something which is obviously simple if
there is some help document.
Thanks to Brian and Sanjay who have been great helpers here.
Why don't autodesk create some document or manual to explain step by step of
"How to"
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"Venkatesh Thiyagarajan (Autodesk)"
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Unfortunately, there isn't documentation for the wizards. The
wizards/templates are provided to automate the steps of creating an addin
and are meant to be transparent enough so that you see the code as you would
if you were not using the wizard. But, the C++ wizard is a little bit of an
exception because it abstracts some of the code to make it easier for the
user. This is good if you only care about the result and not how things
work. But, if you need to understand the code, then there is an additional
layer of code inserted by the wizard that you need to decipher. Currently,
"\SDK\Include" folder has
AtlAddInServer.h file that contains the base class that implements the
ApplicationAddInServer interface methods and the wizard generates a class
that derives from this base class and implements hook methods (OnActivate
and OnDeactivate). You should be able to start using this wizard created
addin and implement your code in the OnActivate and OnDeactivate methods.
Most of the other stuff created by the wizard is COM/ATL code needed to
create the AddIn. The Inventor API Programming help section has a topic
about AddIns. The sample code is demonstrated in VB, but the general concept
applies to any language.
I hope this helps.
-Venkatesh Thiyagarajan.
wrote in message news:5789098@discussion.autodesk.com...
Hi,
We are trying to develop addin for Inventor using wizard.Is there any
documentation available on the code generated by wizard to proceed
further.(Theare are some classes and macros in the wizard generated
code).Some Documentation on this code is needed to understand it. Any
link....
Thanks
Rakesh
