Position button on Open dropdown of QAT

[Anonymous]

Is it possible to position a button on the Open dropdown of the Quick Access Toolbar?

The following works:

CommandControls AssemblyQATControls = oAssemblyRibbon.QuickAccessControls;
CommandControls PartQATControls = oPartRibbon.QuickAccessControls;
CommandControls ZeroQATControls = oZeroDocRibbon.QuickAccessControls;
 
AssemblyQATControls.AddButton(MyButton, true, true, "AppFileNewCmd");
PartQATControls.AddButton(MyButton, true, true, "AppFileNewCmd");
ZeroQATControls.AddButton(MyButton, true, true, "AppFileNewCmd");

but not this:

ZeroQATControls.AddButton(MyButton, true, true, "NewFileTemplate4");

[Anonymous]

Sorry, I mean the "New" dropdown.

[xiaodong_liang]

Hi,

did you mean you can add your button to [New] menu if it is Assembly Ribbon or Part Ribbon, but cannot in Zero Ribbon? 

[Anonymous]

No, I am saying that I can add a button (to any ribbon) *after* the New dropdown, but I cannot add a button (to any ribbon) to the New dropdown itself (where my button is not visible until the New dropdown is opened).

[xiaodong_liang]

Hope the code below and the snapshot explains:

Sub test()

Dim ZeroQATControls As CommandControls

Set ZeroQATControls = ThisApplication.UserInterfaceManager.Ribbons("ZeroDoc").QuickAccessControls
Dim o As Object
Set o = ZeroQATControls(1)

o.ChildControls.AddButton ThisApplication.CommandManager.ControlDefinitions("AppFileSaveAsCmd")

End Sub

[Anonymous]

Hi Xiaodong, can you give that to me in C#?  For some reason I can't convert it myself.

 

[xiaodong_liang · Accepted solution]

Hi michael.collins2,

I am a little bit astonished it would be difficulty for you with these lines. Anyway, I took a tool to convert it and modify to meet the syntax of C#. Although it is not neccessary for these few lines, but just in case you have more codes need to be converted in the future:

http://www.developerfusion.com/tools/convert/vb-to-csharp/

public void test()
{

 CommandControls ZeroQATControls =   ThisApplication.UserInterfaceManager.Ribbons["ZeroDoc"].QuickAccessControls;

 object o = ZeroQATControls[1];

 o.ChildControls.AddButton(ThisApplication.CommandManager.ControlDefinitions["AppFileSaveAsCmd"]);

}

[Anonymous]

Thank you.  I tried a different tool but the output of that tool would not compile.  I guess that tool was not familiar with the Inventor data model and got confused between what was a method and what was an array.

Let me try this code.  Thanks.

[Anonymous]

Hi Xiaodong, yes that was a good start.  I just had to cast o as a CommandControl, and use my button.  Here is what I ended up with:

          CommandControl oA = AssemblyQATControls[1];
          oA.ChildControls.AddButton(dokument_Konfigurator);
          CommandControl oP = PartQATControls[1];
          oP.ChildControls.AddButton(dokument_Konfigurator);
          CommandControl oZ = ZeroQATControls[1];
          oZ.ChildControls.AddButton(dokument_Konfigurator);