.vb file called trough a mapkey - fails

[JBlackhole]

To all

I am trying to learn CREO customisation so I am "playing" around with mapkey + .vb file.

I set up a mapkey 'OS Script' option pointing to a .vb file containing a simple test program. If I press 'run' I can see the command DOS window being open but then I get a request to select the app (windows 10) to run the .vb file. So far I have not found anything in the vbapi doc on the matter. How does one run any of the vbapi examples provided?

Thanks

Regards

[MartinHanak]

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@JBlackhole wrote:

To all

I am trying to learn CREO customisation so I am "playing" around with mapkey + .vb file.

I set up a mapkey 'OS Script' option pointing to a .vb file containing a simple test program. If I press 'run' I can see the command DOS window being open but then I get a request to select the app (windows 10) to run the .vb file. So far I have not found anything in the vbapi doc on the matter. How does one run any of the vbapi examples provided?

Thanks

Regards

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Hi,

please upload your simple test .vb program and describe its functionality.

[MartinHanak]

... and tell us installed Creo version.

[JBlackhole]

Creo 5

Any program will do. Maybe the standard "Hello World" either displayed to a msgbox or in the status bar

something like that?

Public Class test1

    Public Sub mytest1

	Dim TheSession As pfcls.IpfcSession
	
	Dim message As Istringseq
	 message = New Cstringseq
	 message.Set(0, "Hello World")
	TheSession.UIDisplayMessage("Title", "a message", message)
	
	Msgbox("Hello World")

End Class

[MartinHanak]

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@JBlackhole wrote:

Creo 5

Any program will do. Maybe the standard "Hello World" either displayed to a msgbox or in the status bar

something like that?

Public Class test1

    Public Sub mytest1

	Dim TheSession As pfcls.IpfcSession
	
	Dim message As Istringseq
	 message = New Cstringseq
	 message.Set(0, "Hello World")
	TheSession.UIDisplayMessage("Title", "a message", message)
	
	Msgbox("Hello World")

End Class

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Hi,

in attached document you will find decription of procedure I just finished. It may help you understand how Creo VBAPI works.

[JBlackhole]

Thanks for the info. I think I have read some of it (in the manual) (PRO_COM_MSG_EXE, etc) . Just haven't tested from xls as my attempt is to see if I can run a .vb file as-is. Having said that I will have ago at the test macro provided