ProcessedCommand Event

[TK.421]

How is this used? I'm looking to capture when my plugin tabs are switched. I thought maybe this would do it but apparently I'm using it incorrectly.

comms.EventUtils.Subscribe(new EventSubscription("ProcessedCommand", Process_Command));

and then

      private void Process_Command(string event_name, Dictionary<string, string> event_arguments)
        {
            if (event_arguments["Command"] == "PLUGIN TAB '{8720D785-4D58-47BD-A76D-35DB484B3BD2}:1'")
            {
                // my commands here
            }
        }

does anyone know how i can find out when a plugin tab is changed? @rafael.sansao  @5axes  @kukelyk ?

thanks!

[peter.lockyer · Accepted solution]

I'm sorry, I think this is the one plugin event that was never actually implemented.  If I recall correctly, there were significant concerns that if plugins started to subscribe to this event, PowerMill performance would start to degrade noticeably.

[TK.421]

Nooooooooooooo! i spent so much time on that yesterday, lol!! Thank you for informing me that it does not work, that'll save some headaches!

Do you think that it'll be implemented in the future? I would think that most of us developing plugins would know to roll back our functionality if it started harming the performance of the software...

thanks @peter.lockyer !

[iroda]

Awh. Same problem here... I wanted to 'watch' only one command.

[krasimir.vasilev]

it might sounds a bit primitive 😅 is it possible to create a UDP placeholder and set a value when event in your plugin occur? 

[iroda]

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@krasimir.vasilev wrote:

...UDP placeholder...

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What do you mean? Can you be a bit more specific?

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@krasimir.vasilev wrote:

...and set a value when event in your plugin occur? 

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It is the other way around: to get a command processed by PowerMill can mark an event in PowerMill, and not in the plugin, so the plugin can act accordingly. Example: user reorders the toolpaths/NC programs in PowerMill Explorer - there is no event for this. So if we can 'watch' for the command 'ORDERSESSION' and its arguments, then the plugin can initiate a necessary action.

[Sean571]

You might be able to do something with a WPF event instead. Not sure off the top of my head which one but it could be some event like "has focus" or something  that could flag which tab is being used? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯