Disable File, New in Creo only if connected to PDM

[llie]

All,

We would like to disable File, New in Creo 5 if the user is connected to PDM and if they are in Offline, then File New is enabled.

Has anyone figured out the code for this?

Input is much appreciated.

[sully7]

This should be possible using a Bracket function.

I haven't tried running it myself yet, but here's some pseudocode for ProToolkit:

1. Find the name of the command for File->New using a mapkey or trail file (I believe it is "ProCmdModelNew", but as we all know... command names and mapkeys might change from version-to-version of Creo)
2. use ProCmdCmdIdFind to find the uiCmdCmdID of the function
3. Define a bracket function in the format of  uiCmdCmdBktFn
4. In the body of the function you define, you'll want to add handling something to the effect of:
   

   /*! @brief An example uiCmdCmdBktFn function to stop the command from running
   *   @details Use 'ProServerIsOnline' to determine if the server is online
   */
   int stop_the_desired_function(uiCmdCmdId command, 
                                 uiCmdValue* p_new_value, 
                                 int entering_command,
                                 void** pp_bracket_data) { 
     if (entering_command ==1) {
       // Get the current server
       wchar_t* server_alias;
       ProError err = ProServerActiveGet(&server_alias);
       if (err != PRO_TK_NO_ERROR) { return 1; } // if we don't have a server, allow action
   
       // Check if the server is set to "online"
       ProBoolean server_is_online = PRO_B_FALSE;
       err = ProServerIsOnline(server_alias, &server_is_online);
       ProWstringFree(server_alias);
       if (server_is_online == PRO_B_TRUE) {
         return 0; // stop the command from running
       }
     }
   }

5. Add a bracket function to the desired command using ProCmdBracketFuncAdd

For some more options... check out "Manipulating Existing Commands", which should be in the following file in your Creo install: <creo_install>/protoolkit/protkdoc/manual0/Menus.html#4

Also, as an FYI, this process should look pretty similar in either the C++ OTK, but obviously the code would look a bit different. I haven't checked the docs, but I would assume that the Java OTK should look pretty similar as well.

Hope this helps!

Thanks,

James Sullivan