JLink: Modal menubar menu button

[cbell]

Example: The button for Manikin only appears when an assembly is opened. I'd like to do this for parts with JLink. Can anyone point me in the right direction? It seems like it should be a listener but none of the available ones I have found seem to serve the purpose.

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[mark_stallard]

Chris -

I'm sure other JLink users want this functionality - I know I do, but
I haven't found a way to do it.

> Example: The button for Manikin only appears when an assembly is opened.
> I'd like to do this for parts with JLink. Can anyone point me in the
> right direction? It seems like it should be a listener but none of the
> available ones I have found seem to serve the purpose.Example: The
button
> for Manikin only appears when an assembly is opened. I'd like to do
this
> for parts with JLink. Can anyone point me in the right direction? It
> seems like it should be a listener but none of the available ones I have
> found seem to serve the purpose.

The UICommandActionListener interface exposes only one event method,
OnCommand, which is executed after you select the menu. I don't know
why PTC didn't add another method called OnUIDisplay or something similar.

Pro/Toolkit users can define callback functions of type uiCmdAccessFn to
enable/disable menu entries, and they work quite well. I can't see the
point, though, of writing a Pro/Toolkit task DLL for this purpose alone.

Has anyone submitted an SPR or enhancement request for this?

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[gchampoux]

I asked PTC support about this some months ago.
This functionality was introduced in WildFire 4.
Unfortunately, I'm still at WilFire 3.

Gerry

[jfelkins]

Hello

In WF3 this is not supported as you know. My suggested is to determine the type of model that is active so if anyone selects on the menu button a message will appear informing the user that the button can not be used based on the model type.An example is below.

//Get model type
ModelType modelType =mdlObject.GetType();

if (!modelType.equals(ModelType.MDL_ASSEMBLY)){
currSession.UIShowMessageDialog("Please select an assembly.",null );
}

Hope this helps. If you have questions, please contact me at jfelkins@felcosolutions.com.

In Reply to Chris Bell:

Example: The button for Manikin only appears when an assembly is opened. I'd like to do this for parts with JLink. Can anyone point me in the right direction? It seems like it should be a listener but none of the available ones I have found seem to serve the purpose.