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IC1616 Custom Toolbar Icons That Change on State

mrharris

I would like to add a toolbar icon that when selected toggles gravity on and off. I have this working through the customization form. As an enhancement I would like the ICON to indicate if gravity is enabled or not instead of looking at the log window to determine this. How would one write a callback such that it updates the icon used based on the state of whether gravity is enabled or not? 

Thanks, 

Micky Harris

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  • Hi Micky,

    If you mark the Action as "checkable" then it will automatically toggle the icon each time you press it. Does that do what you want?

    Andrew.

  • in reply to Andrew Beckett

    That will gray it out vs not, similar to a press button. I was curious if there was a way to have the icon change similar to the partial vs full selection and entry mode. For example a black G for off and a green G for on. 

    Thanks,

    Micky

  • in reply to mrharris

    Micky,

    In the callback for your toolbar action, you would need to do something like this (this is not the code for the partial/full-selection icon, but it's similar to this idea):

    let((win swin optionToolbar action)
      win=hiGetCurrentWindow()
      swin=hiGetSessionWindow(win)
      optionToolbar=car(exists(toolbar hiGetWindowToolbars(swin) hiGetToolbarObjName(toolbar)=="Options"))
      action=optionToolbar->lebSelect
      ; would normally check win~>partialSelect but since changing that 
      ; has a trigger to change the icon, show the principle by using a global variable that you can set to try this out
      if(boundp('PARTIAL_SELECT) && PARTIAL_SELECT then
        action->hiIcon="vertex-select-partial.png"
        action->hiToolTip="Partial Select"
      else
        action->hiIcon="vertex-select-full.png"
        action->hiToolTip="Full Select"
      )
    )

    Hope that helps!

    Andrew.

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  • in reply to mrharris

    Micky,

    In the callback for your toolbar action, you would need to do something like this (this is not the code for the partial/full-selection icon, but it's similar to this idea):

    let((win swin optionToolbar action)
      win=hiGetCurrentWindow()
      swin=hiGetSessionWindow(win)
      optionToolbar=car(exists(toolbar hiGetWindowToolbars(swin) hiGetToolbarObjName(toolbar)=="Options"))
      action=optionToolbar->lebSelect
      ; would normally check win~>partialSelect but since changing that 
      ; has a trigger to change the icon, show the principle by using a global variable that you can set to try this out
      if(boundp('PARTIAL_SELECT) && PARTIAL_SELECT then
        action->hiIcon="vertex-select-partial.png"
        action->hiToolTip="Partial Select"
      else
        action->hiIcon="vertex-select-full.png"
        action->hiToolTip="Full Select"
      )
    )

    Hope that helps!

    Andrew.

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