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pulldown menu in Assembler & Explorer

FAwqati

Hi All,

I would like to add my own custom pulldown menu in Assembler and Explorer. I have written the procedures and tested they work fine, i just need them to automatically load.

- Background - 

Ive managed to get the following working, but if i put my procedure call on the third argument it doesn't work. I thought the third argument was the menu trigger.

deRegUserTriggers("explorer" nil nil 'MyExplorerPDmenu)

Is this correct ? Should i be using deRegUserTriggers method or is there an equivalent to the below ?

envSetVal("asimenv.startup" "sessInitTrigFunc" 'string "init_session")
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  • Hi Faisal,

    You should use the deRegUserTriggers call to do this, and the right thing to do is to use the user menu trigger (you definitely should not use the user post install trigger, as that can have problematic side effects with code fighting other code if you have more than one set of triggers defined). Note that the user menu trigger does not need to add the menus itself - it merely returns a list of pulldown menus, and "de" (the Design Editor) takes care of adding them for you.

    I would not advise using the sessInitTrigFunc - this is really only designed with ADE L in mind, and is awkward to make it work with ADE XL, Explorer and Assembler such that things don't break. One of the advantages of Explorer and Assembler is that they are "de" applications (ADE L wasn't) which makes this kind of customisation much easier.

    See the code below - I just tested this, and it works fine:

    procedure(CCFexplorerAssemblerMenuTrigger(args)
  list(
    hiCreatePulldownMenu(
      'CCFexplorerAssemblerMenu
      "Custom"
      list(
        hiCreateMenuItem(
          ?name 'menu1
          ?itemText "First item"
          ?callback "println(123)"
        )
        hiCreateMenuItem(
          ?name 'menu2
          ?itemText "Second item"
          ?callback "println(456)"
        )
      )
    )
  )
)

deRegUserTriggers("explorer" nil 'CCFexplorerAssemblerMenuTrigger)
deRegUserTriggers("maestro" nil 'CCFexplorerAssemblerMenuTrigger)

    Kind Regards,

    Andrew.

  • in reply to Andrew Beckett

    Morning Andrew,

    That worked great ! 

    Many thanks

    Faisal

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