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Add an item ADE-XL results tab (when right clicking on a test result)

PatrikOsgnach

Hello,

I have this scenario: in ADE-XL, after I load an old result to active, if I select the results tab and right click on a result, I have a nice menu with many options.

I would like to add an item to this menu. From what I read on this forum, I added this code to menus/spectre.menus


(sevAddMenuItemLists                                                                                          
    (lambda (session name)
        (case name
              ("&Results" list( (list "TestItem" ?disable nil ?form t ?callback "(testfunc session)") ) )
        );case
    ) ; lambda
) ; sevAddMenuItemLists
(procedure (testfunc s) (println (sprintf nil "Simdir is %s" s->axlCurrentDataDir)) )

but, when I right click, I get this message in CIW:

ERROR (ADEXL-2822): Invalid menu list structure "(false false)" provided.
Menu items must be specified as a list of ("menu name" "callback" {"true", "false"}), where the last argument specifies whether the item is disabled.
For submenus, replace the callback string with a sublist of menu items.

and nothing gets printed

What is the correct way to achieve this? I need to be able to access the "session" variable inside my callback

Best regards,

Patrik

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  • Hi Patrick,

    Doing  search for sevAddMenuItemLists in the forums came up with two other threads; both were more focussed about adding a menu in ADE L, ideally a new pulldown menu altogether,

    In order to add context menus in ADE XL, you really need to call the menu "&Results" (as you've done) but what your code would be trying to do is replacing that menu rather than adding a new item into it. I'm sure that's not what you want. My solution 11286092 covers this - it's the slightly more complex example at the end. The idea is that you need to record the existing lambda function that generates the Results menu, and then augment that with your own lambda function.

    The callback shouldn't be specified as a string, but using this backquote syntax and ,session so that the session id passed into the lambda when the function is called is passed to your callback.

    An example of adding an item to the Results menu is as follows (this is a bit simpler than the example in the solution):

    ;------------------------------------------------------------------------
; Get hold of the original menu construction function. This avoids redefining
; the Results menu as "&Results ", which breaks ADE-XL
;------------------------------------------------------------------------
myOrigSpectreMenus=sevCustomEntity('sevItemListsCME)

;------------------------------------------------------------------------
; now define the "Simulation" menu, appending the
; new stuff to the already defined "Simulation" menu items...
; Also replace existing items
;------------------------------------------------------------------------
(sevAddMenuItemLists
  (lambda (session name)
    (case name
      (("Results" "&Results")
       ;-----------------------------------------------------------------
       ; Traverse the existing Simulation menu, and re-use all the items,
       ; until we find the "Options" submenu - which will be extended
       ;-----------------------------------------------------------------
       (append1
         (funcall myOrigSpectreMenus session name)
         `("Save Violations to HTML" 
           ?callback (abHiSaveViolationsToHTML ',session) 
           ?form t 
           ?disable (sevNoViolationsFound ',session))
         )
       ) 
      ) ; case
    ) ; lambda
  ) ; sevAddMenuItemLists

    Regards,

    Andrew.

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  • Hi Patrick,

    Doing  search for sevAddMenuItemLists in the forums came up with two other threads; both were more focussed about adding a menu in ADE L, ideally a new pulldown menu altogether,

    In order to add context menus in ADE XL, you really need to call the menu "&Results" (as you've done) but what your code would be trying to do is replacing that menu rather than adding a new item into it. I'm sure that's not what you want. My solution 11286092 covers this - it's the slightly more complex example at the end. The idea is that you need to record the existing lambda function that generates the Results menu, and then augment that with your own lambda function.

    The callback shouldn't be specified as a string, but using this backquote syntax and ,session so that the session id passed into the lambda when the function is called is passed to your callback.

    An example of adding an item to the Results menu is as follows (this is a bit simpler than the example in the solution):

    ;------------------------------------------------------------------------
; Get hold of the original menu construction function. This avoids redefining
; the Results menu as "&Results ", which breaks ADE-XL
;------------------------------------------------------------------------
myOrigSpectreMenus=sevCustomEntity('sevItemListsCME)

;------------------------------------------------------------------------
; now define the "Simulation" menu, appending the
; new stuff to the already defined "Simulation" menu items...
; Also replace existing items
;------------------------------------------------------------------------
(sevAddMenuItemLists
  (lambda (session name)
    (case name
      (("Results" "&Results")
       ;-----------------------------------------------------------------
       ; Traverse the existing Simulation menu, and re-use all the items,
       ; until we find the "Options" submenu - which will be extended
       ;-----------------------------------------------------------------
       (append1
         (funcall myOrigSpectreMenus session name)
         `("Save Violations to HTML" 
           ?callback (abHiSaveViolationsToHTML ',session) 
           ?form t 
           ?disable (sevNoViolationsFound ',session))
         )
       ) 
      ) ; case
    ) ; lambda
  ) ; sevAddMenuItemLists

    Regards,

    Andrew.

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