How Can Utilize a dwindow in the same fashion as an Assistant in virtuoso so that it is available on All design windows .

Sort of. It has a nice example of changing out the contents of a form in a dockable window. That's pretty useful. I still can't seem to get this new dock window to show up in the window->assistants menu (without jumping through all sorts of hoops) or the banner popup at all (can't seem to figure out how to access the banner popup). What is interesting is that if I run the example in that article with no modifications, it creates a new session, a new window, adds the dockable window, and the dockable window *does* show up in the banner popup and I fail to see which part of the code causes that addition to the popup. So this is mystery #1 (getting the dockable added to the assistants menus in the two spots).


In Ted's first reply he implies that an assistant is somehow different than a dockable window and that an assistant can be added to more than one window (a dockable window can only be added to a single window at a time). If this is indeed true, it would be helpful for me to figure out how to do that (create an actual assistant instead of multiple dockable windows, each with their own form as forms can't be instantiated in more than one window at a time and dockable windows are tied to a single session+window). My other option is I can keep track of all of my dockable windows and put in place some code that keeps groups of them synchronized (sort of like the palette is synchronized across layout windows) but that sounds like it may start to be a bit of a book keeping headache.

-Dan

p.s. here is the (very ugly with no error checking) code I hacked together to insert something into the Window->Assistants schematic menu:

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win = getCurrentWindow()
menus = hiGetBannerMenus(win)
window_menu = nil
foreach( m menus
m2 = eval(m)
;;printf("m2~>?? = %L\n", m2->_menuTitle)
when( m2->_menuTitle == "&Window"
window_menu = m2
)
)

foreach( m hiGetMenuItems(window_menu)
when(boundp(m)
m2 = eval(m)
;;printf("m2~>?? = %L\n", m2->_menuTitle)
when(m2->_menuTitle == "&Assistants"
a_menu = m2
)
)
)

my_act = hiCreateAction(
?name 'my_dock_act
?iconText "Example Dock"
?toolTip "my example dock tooltip"
?enabled t ?checkable t ?checked t
?callback "my_callback()"
)

hiInsertMenuItem(a_menu, my_act, 100)

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Sort of. It has a nice example of changing out the contents of a form in a dockable window. That's pretty useful. I still can't seem to get this new dock window to show up in the window->assistants menu (without jumping through all sorts of hoops) or the banner popup at all (can't seem to figure out how to access the banner popup). What is interesting is that if I run the example in that article with no modifications, it creates a new session, a new window, adds the dockable window, and the dockable window *does* show up in the banner popup and I fail to see which part of the code causes that addition to the popup. So this is mystery #1 (getting the dockable added to the assistants menus in the two spots).


In Ted's first reply he implies that an assistant is somehow different than a dockable window and that an assistant can be added to more than one window (a dockable window can only be added to a single window at a time). If this is indeed true, it would be helpful for me to figure out how to do that (create an actual assistant instead of multiple dockable windows, each with their own form as forms can't be instantiated in more than one window at a time and dockable windows are tied to a single session+window). My other option is I can keep track of all of my dockable windows and put in place some code that keeps groups of them synchronized (sort of like the palette is synchronized across layout windows) but that sounds like it may start to be a bit of a book keeping headache.

-Dan

p.s. here is the (very ugly with no error checking) code I hacked together to insert something into the Window->Assistants schematic menu:

<pre>

win = getCurrentWindow()
menus = hiGetBannerMenus(win)
window_menu = nil
foreach( m menus
m2 = eval(m)
;;printf("m2~>?? = %L\n", m2->_menuTitle)
when( m2->_menuTitle == "&Window"
window_menu = m2
)
)

foreach( m hiGetMenuItems(window_menu)
when(boundp(m)
m2 = eval(m)
;;printf("m2~>?? = %L\n", m2->_menuTitle)
when(m2->_menuTitle == "&Assistants"
a_menu = m2
)
)
)

my_act = hiCreateAction(
?name 'my_dock_act
?iconText "Example Dock"
?toolTip "my example dock tooltip"
?enabled t ?checkable t ?checked t
?callback "my_callback()"
)

hiInsertMenuItem(a_menu, my_act, 100)

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