How to start a batch with toolkit

Question

Hello,
I'm trying to write the application which reads some informations from asm/prt files in a directory and writes them into xml files.
What I can do now is to create an exe-file in VS2012, a prodev.dat and a rbn-file (just did according to the document "Getting Started with Creo Object TOOLKIT C++ 3.0").
If I start creo 3 from the folder containing prodev.dat, then I see the button in the OTK group and can run the application.
 
My Question is, how can I start my application without GUI and the button is automatically pushed (means, my application is automatically executed)?
 
Thank you in advance
Xinyu

sully7 · Accepted Answer

Aaaah okay - sorry, I forgot one additional requirement during my original post. Your additional arguments also need to be prefixed with a "+" or a "-". (I'll go back and edit the post to include that)

The documentation states (page 63-ish of the ProToolkit user guide):

The first command-line argument passed to Creo Parametric TOOLKIT is the
same one seen by Creo Parametric; that is, it is the name of the Creo Parametric
executable. The remaining command-line arguments passed to user_
initialize() are a subset of those given on the command line that invoked
Creo Parametric. The rule is that Creo Parametric passes on to user_
initialize() any command-line argument that starts with a “+”, or with a “-”
followed by an upper-case character.
For example, these command-line arguments will be passed to Creo Parametric
TOOLKIT:
+batch=mybatchfile.txt
-Level=expert

Give that a try - it should work just fine 🙂

Thanks,

James Sullivan

sully7 · Answer

You'll need to use the windows command prompt to start Creo. You can do this by navigating to the folder for your working directory, opening a command prompt, and running the following command line:

In this example, I have set my creo install path as a windows environment variable, so that I can quickly replace the command for different versions of Creo, etc.

call "%CREO_INSTALL_PATH%\Parametric\bin\parametric.exe" -g:no_graphics -batch_mode -i:rpc_input

From there, if you pass OTHER arguments after the last one, they will be also passed into your Toolkit application's "user_initialize" function. Aka, if you use

call "%CREO_INSTALL_PATH%\Parametric\bin\parametric.exe" -g:no_graphics -batch_mode -i:rpc_input -RUN_MY_DESIRED_APPLICATOIN

Then you should see a command line pop up, it should load Creo in non-graphical mode, load your toolkit application, and pass the argument "-RUN_MY_DESIRED_APPLICATION" in as one of the values in your "argv" array.

You would then basically write code into your "user_initalize" to look for those arguments, and do the appropriate actions.

For more information, there is a section of the ProToolkit documentation called "Using Creo Parametric TOOLKIT to Make a Batch Creo Parametric Session" (located on Page 63-ish, depending on what version of the docs you are looking at).

Hope this helps! Please don't hesitate to reach out if you have any issues.

Thanks,

James Sullivan

james.sullivan@cadactive.com

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