Inventor Event Handling

[drewj]

I am looking to set up an event handler in Inventor to track which commands are used and when for logging, can anyone point me in the direction of where to start?

in AutoCAD I have used this:

Autodesk.AutoCAD.ApplicationServices.Application.DocumentManager.MdiActiveDocument.CommandWillStart += new CommandEventHandler(CommandBeginHandler)

in Revit I have used this:

AddInCommandBinding namehere = app.CreateAddInCommandBinding(RevitCommandId.LookupCommandId("COMMAND_NAME_HERE"))

and in Navisworks I have used this:

Autodesk.Windows.ComponentManager.UIElementActivated += new EventHandler<Autodesk.Windows.UIElementActivatedEventArgs>(OnUiElementActivated)

But I cant seem to find a "catch all" event that would work for every command in Inventor, can anyone help?

[nmunro · Accepted solution]

You can subscribe to the UserInputEvents.OnActivateCommand and UserInputEvents.OnTerminateCommand events to catch most of what a user does in Inventor, but it does not fire for all commands. If you install the Developer tools, it includes a very good event watcher application with source code that should be a good reference for you.

Neil