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bfriesen18-Opal
18-Opal
July 31, 2020
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menu to queue print jobs, need help modifing menu link

Trying to add the set preference to my queue menu, but it does not seem to work. Looking for some guidance in ACL.

 

# create menu
if (!menu_exists('.Window')) {
return;
}

if ( !menu_exists( '.Queue.' ) ) {

menu_add -menu .Window "Queue";

menu_add "Queue." ""Long" cmd "set -preference petransactionoptions = \"queueID:long\""";
menu_add "Queue." ""Short" cmd "set -preference petransactionoptions = \"queueID:short\""";
menu_add "Queue." ""None" cmd "set -preference petransactionoptions = \"queue:yes\""";

}


} # _addmenu()

 

Thanks 

 

BRyon

GarethOakesAnswer
16-Pearl
August 4, 2020

I'm a bit rusty myself but I think you are almost there. If it were me I'd simplify it down a little at least for initial testing to get it working? I added my version of this code at the bottom. I used the Help Center as a reference, I haven't tested this in Arbortext yet. BTW, in case you didn't know already you can use the response() command to test out if the -cmd is being called correctly. It will popup a dialog so you can see what it is about to do.

 

https://support.ptc.com/cs/help/arbortext_hc/ae61_hc/aeAcl/help9122.html

 

function addQueueMenu() {
  if ( !menu_exists( ".Queue." ) ) {

    menu_add -menu .Window "Queue";

    menu_add .Queue. "Long" -cmd {set -preference petransactionoptions = "queueID:long"};
    menu_add .Queue. "Short" -cmd {set -preference petransactionoptions = "queueID:short"};
    menu_add .Queue. "None" -cmd {set -preference petransactionoptions = "queue:yes"};

  }
}

add_hook("menuloadhook", "addQueueMenu");

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GarethOakes16-Pearl
16-Pearl
August 3, 2020

Hi Bryon,

 

This is actually covered in the Arbortext Help Center but long story short you need to use menuloadhook() - see here: https://support.ptc.com/cs/help/arbortext_hc/ae61_hc/aeAcl/help796.html?queryId=173b1b3f891#ATI.759

 

-Gareth

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bfriesen18-OpalAuthor
18-Opal
August 4, 2020

Thanks for the info Gareth, I am not an ACL kind of guy, more of a hack and slash... or copy and paste...

 

Something like this?

 

function _addmenu() {

 

if ( !menu_exists( '.Queue.' ) ) {

menu_add -menu .Window "Queue";

menu_add "Queue." ""Long" cmd "set -preference petransactionoptions = \"queueID:long\""";
menu_add "Queue." ""Short" cmd "set -preference petransactionoptions = \"queueID:short\""";
menu_add "Queue." ""None" cmd "set -preference petransactionoptions = \"queue:yes\""";

}


} # _addmenu()

 

# function: _menuloadhook()

function _menuloadhook(win,menupath) {
_addmenu();
} # _menuloadhook()

 

 

# function: _addhook()
function _addhook() {
add_hook('menuloadhook',package_name()."::_menuloadhook");
} # _addhook()

 

Thanks,

Bryon

 

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GarethOakes16-PearlAnswer
16-Pearl
August 4, 2020

I'm a bit rusty myself but I think you are almost there. If it were me I'd simplify it down a little at least for initial testing to get it working? I added my version of this code at the bottom. I used the Help Center as a reference, I haven't tested this in Arbortext yet. BTW, in case you didn't know already you can use the response() command to test out if the -cmd is being called correctly. It will popup a dialog so you can see what it is about to do.

 

https://support.ptc.com/cs/help/arbortext_hc/ae61_hc/aeAcl/help9122.html

 

function addQueueMenu() {
  if ( !menu_exists( ".Queue." ) ) {

    menu_add -menu .Window "Queue";

    menu_add .Queue. "Long" -cmd {set -preference petransactionoptions = "queueID:long"};
    menu_add .Queue. "Short" -cmd {set -preference petransactionoptions = "queueID:short"};
    menu_add .Queue. "None" -cmd {set -preference petransactionoptions = "queue:yes"};

  }
}

add_hook("menuloadhook", "addQueueMenu");

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