.NET C# Ribbon tab
Accepted solution
Here's a simple example of adding a new tab, panel, & button. YOu can have it load automatically by utilizing your Intialize event.
using Autodesk.AutoCAD.Runtime;
using Autodesk.Windows;
namespace AutoCADTest
{
public class Class1
{
[CommandMethod("testmyRibbon", CommandFlags.Transparent)]
public void Testme()
{
RibbonControl ribbon = ComponentManager.Ribbon;
if (ribbon != null)
{
RibbonTab rtab = ribbon.FindTab("TESTME");
if (rtab != null)
{
ribbon.Tabs.Remove(rtab);
}
rtab = new RibbonTab();
rtab.Title = "TEST ME";
rtab.Id = "Testing";
//Add the Tab
ribbon.Tabs.Add(rtab);
addContent(rtab);
}
}
static void addContent(RibbonTab rtab)
{
rtab.Panels.Add(AddOnePanel());
}
static RibbonPanel AddOnePanel()
{
RibbonButton rb;
RibbonPanelSource rps = new RibbonPanelSource();
rps.Title = "Test One";
RibbonPanel rp = new RibbonPanel();
rp.Source = rps;
//Create a Command Item that the Dialog Launcher can use,
// for this test it is just a place holder.
RibbonButton rci = new RibbonButton();
rci.Name = "TestCommand";
//assign the Command Item to the DialgLauncher which auto-enables
// the little button at the lower right of a Panel
rps.DialogLauncher = rci;
rb = new RibbonButton();
rb.Name = "Test Button";
rb.ShowText = true;
rb.Text = "Test Button";
//Add the Button to the Tab
rps.Items.Add(rb);
return rp;
}
}
}
Accepted solution
You not only need to set references to AcWindows.dll and AdWindows.dll coming from AutoCAD, you also need to set reference to PresentationFramework.dll, PresentationCore.dll, System.Xaml.dll and Windows.Base.dll from .NET framework, because acwindows/adwindows.dll depend on them.
To respond to user action (clicking, in your case) to a RibbonCommandItem (RibbonButton is derived from RibbonCommandItem), you need to have a class that implements System.Windows.Input.ICommand as a command handler, then assign this command handler to the RibbonCommandItem. Something like:
In the code of adding RibbonButton to a RibbonTab,
...
RibbonButton btn=new RibbonButton()
btn.Text="Click me";
btn...
btn.CommandHandler=new MyRibbonCommandHandler();
btn.CommandParameter="MyCommand";
btn.ToolTip=....
public class MyRibbonCommandHandler : System.Windows.Input.ICommand
{
....
public void Execute(object parameter)
{
RibbonCommandItem btn = parameter as RibbonCommandItem
if (btn!=null)
{
//execute an AutoCAD command, or your custom command defined by [CommandMethod]
Document dwg=Application.DocimentManager.MdiActiveDocument;
dwg.SendStringToExecute((string)btn.CommandParameter + " ", true, false, true);
}
}
}
HTH.
Those are part of .NET Framework, which is, obviously, available with your computer, because you have AutoCAD and/or VIsual Studio installed to do AutoCAD .NET programming.
In VS, open open "Add References..." dialog box, select "Asseblies" tab on the left, then you can find all of them, as shown in pictures below.
When you say "Add-ins Ribbon", do you mean a Ribbon tab, created by your code/add-in, or an existing ribbon tab, created by other add-in (or, simply an existing ribbon tab, which may already loaded at the moment you want to add a button to)? Let's assume this is the possible scenario: you want to add a button to the ribbon menu, preferably, an existing/loaded ribbon tab; however, if the existing ribbon tab does not exists, your code would decide either to add a new ribbon tab (and a ribbon panel on the tab), then the ribbon button; or to not add the button at all.
If you have read Jeff's code (message 2/17) and mine (7/17) carefully enough, you would have gotten the idea already:
1. Obtain RibbonControl object, as Jeff's code shows;
2. Use FindTab() method to decide if the target ribbon tab exists or not;
3. If the tab is found, you will need to decide which ribbon panel the button would be added into, or add a new ribbon panel for the button;
4. If the tab is not found, you need to create one, if the button must be added. Of course you also need to add a ribbon panel to the new tab.
5. Once the button added (as Jeff's code demos), you simply set the button's CommandParameter to a string of command, something like
"_NETLOAD \"[Path]\myApp.dll\""
@norman.yuan Thank you for your detailed reply.
I mean an existing Ribbon which is called "Add-Ins" as below screenshot. However, I'll go through the codes from you and Jeff.
Firstly, changing an existing ribbon menu, which is not created by your own code/customization, might not be a good idea; secondly, changing/updating CUI might be better/easier solution than dynamic change made by code (meaning you have to make sure your code must run to guarantee your ribbon button's availability.
If you have reach the conclusion that you need to use code to generate the said ribbon button, again, Jeff's code HAS ALREADY provide enough clue of how to do it. Let me reiterate again:
1. Use RibbonControl.FindTab() to make sure "Add-ins" tab does exists; You would need to decide what if it does not exists (say, the current AutoCAD profile does not load AutoCAD default ribbon, but user defined custom ribbon): you would either add the tab, or choose not adding your ribbon button.
2. Add a new panel into the "Add-ins" tab, as Jeff's code demos (addContent() and addOnePanel() methods in Jeff's code, you only need minor and obvious change, such as panel/button text...)
3. Set button's CommandParameter property to "_.NETLOAD ..." string.