Top level Interaction event

[Anonymous]

Hi all, 

I am trying to create an add in which allows the user to click with a key (CTRL or similar) a drawing view and then drag to manipulate the scale of that view. 

I believe I know how to do this by creating an instance of an interactionEvent  and then a selectEvent and using the onSelect, onPreSelect etc methods.

InteractionEvents requires me to prompt the user to select a view and stops other processes until i stop the interaction. However I want this to run seamlessly so you just click (with CTRL or similar) on a view and drag for scale rather than having to press a button on the ribbon or similar to start the interaction.

So I guess I am looking for the top level interaction which inventor uses to do its event processing? or is there another way to tackle this problem?

I'v done something similar in the past which was just a loop and acting when the select set had an object type i wanted however this method seems dirty and doesn't give me access to pre-selecting objects, I think events will work better.

currently I'm thinking of writing the addin in VB.net but happy to use another language if it makes this easier.

Thanks

[NachoShaw]

Hi
I personally wouldn't do that as a key can be pressed accidentally but, you could fire the event on a keyless

Wouldn't it be better to add it to the right click menu?

Nacho

[Anonymous]

Yeah my thoughts exactly,

I'd prefer not to have to create an instance of the interaction event, and instead use the top level events which inventor would be using. 

right click menu is always an option if i can't find a solution or a short key etc

[Jef_E]

KeyboardEvents Object

KeyboardEvents Object

Description

The KeyboardEvents object supports a set of events that can be received by the client when a key on the keyboard is pressed while the InteractionEvents object has been started AND the InteractionDisabled flag is set to False.

Properties

Name	Description
Application	Returns the top-level parent application object. When used the context of Inventor, an Application object is returned. When used in the context of Apprentice, an ApprenticeServer object is returned.
Parent	Gets the parent object from whom this object can logically be reached.
Type	Returns an ObjectTypeEnum indicating this object's type.

Events

Name	Description
OnKeyDown	Event that occurs when the user presses a button on the keyboard. Only the keys specified in the enumerator are handled through this event. The input signifies the hardware key that was actually depressed.
OnKeyPress	Event that occurs when the user presses and releases an ANSI key on the keyboard. The ANSI value of the key pressed is returned.
OnKeyUp	Event that occurs when the user releases a button on the keyboard . Only the keys specified in the enumerator are handled through this event. The input signifies the hardware key that was actually depressed.

[Anonymous]

Hi Jef_E that's not quite what I'm after,
I basically don't want to have to start an interaction event,
Instead I guess I want to use the top level interaction event which is always running or similar

Cheers