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ADEXL: How to get parameters of "_" functions for bindkey usage?

dontpanic

Hi! I'm trying to define some ADE-XL bindkeys for actions that I use really often, like the following:

; Open run log (history window)
hiSetBindKey("adexl" "Ctrl Alt Shift<Key>L" "_axlDataViewOpenRunLogAction(axlDataViewForm0->axlDataViewWidget0)")
; Open run results (history window)
hiSetBindKey("adexl" "Ctrl Alt Shift<Key>V" "_axlDataViewShowResultsAction(axlDataViewForm0->axlDataViewWidget0)")
; Export results to csv file
hiSetBindKey("adexl" "Ctrl Shift<Key>S" "_axlExportResultsView(axlOutputsForm3->axlOutputsWidget3)")

I usually get those code snippets from spying on the CIW log to see what gets called when I do these actions using the mouse, and often these "_" functions are involved which seem to be undocumented, private functions.

The problem is that this spying method always gives me arguments that are "hardcoded" to the current application instance, session etc, and when these parameters change, my bindkeys break. For instance sometimes instead of "axlOutputsForm3" I should use "axlOutputsForm4" and so on. Is there any function I can call to pass the correct arguments to these "_" functions?

Thanks and regards,
Jorge.


  • Hi Jorge,

    No. The _ at the beginning is an indication that these are private functions, and they're not intended to be used this way - as a result, there's no support for getting hold of the appropriate argument values for these functions procedurally.

    I don't think there's a public API to open the run log. There is to view the results axlViewHistoryResult, and axlExportOutputView to export the results to a file. In the case of axlViewHistoryResult, you'd have to get the handle for that specific history entry, so you'd probably end up writing some code that displayed a choice of the available histories and then picked the one you want. However, this is likely to be more key clicks than just using the right mouse button menu in the first place...

    Note you could always use right click and then O to open the log or right click and then V to view the results - i.e. using the built-in accelerators...

    Andrew.

  • in reply to Andrew Beckett

    OK Andrew, thanks for the explanation!

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