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How to add a menu in both the CIW Window and all the layout window (on opening) !!!

Sonu Chopra

Hello ,

I wanted to add a menu in both the CIW Window and all the layout window (on opening). I am able to add either in layout window or in CIW Window (not in both). 

i am writing a dummy example to illustrate this

Skill code to illustrate addition of menu in Layout window :

procedure(AddMenu(args)
  let( (item1 item2)
    ;; create a couple of menu items
    item1 = hiCreateMenuItem( ?name 'item1 ?itemText "My First Item"
              ?callback "AmitFunctionOne()"
            )
    item2 = hiCreateMenuItem( ?name 'item2 ?itemText "My Second Item"
              ?callback "AmitFunctionTwo()"
            )
    ;; create a menu that includes the menu items and return a list of the
    ;; pulldown menus
    list(hiCreatePulldownMenu('AmitMenu "Amit Menu" list(item1 item2)))
  );let
); procedure
;; create a userMenuTrigger trigger that automatically adds the menu
deRegUserTriggers("maskLayout" nil 'AddMenu)

Skill code to add a menu to the CIW Window

procedure(AddMenu()
  let( (item1 item2)
    ;; create a couple of menu items
    item1 = hiCreateMenuItem( ?name 'item1 ?itemText "My First Item"
              ?callback "AmitFunctionOne()"
            )
    item2 = hiCreateMenuItem( ?name 'item2 ?itemText "My Second Item"
              ?callback "AmitFunctionTwo()"
            )
    ;; create a menu that includes the menu items and return a list of the
    ;; pulldown menus
    CiwMenu = hiCreatePulldownMenu('AmitMenu "Amit Menu" list(item1 item2)))

    hiInsertBannerMenu( window(1) CiwMenu  3 )


  );let
); procedure

AddMenu()

Can you please guide me how i can add the menu to both CIW Window and Layout Window (on opening) ?

Regards

Sonu

  • When you create the second menu using hiCreatePulldownMenu and the same symbol as menu handle, you are implicitely deleting the first. The menu handle is a unique global skill symbol (see documentation). This also means that you can get the menu from anywhere by accessing the symbol 'AmitMenu' in you case.

    So you either have to create the menus with a different menu handles on each creation (not really recommendend), or create the menu only once and insert this once created menu to where you want to have it.

  • in reply to henker

    Hello henker,

    I am not writing two separate procedures to insert in CIW and Layout Window. (That's why i am not having same symbols as you mentioned).  This was an dummy example to illustrate that I am able to generate menu separately for CIW or layout menu through a procedure. I don't know who I am able to do it with a single procedure and store it in my .cdsinit file.

    Regards

    Sonu

  • in reply to Sonu Chopra

    Here's how to do it. Share the code that creates the menu and only create it if it's not already bound:

    procedure(AmitCreateMenu()
  let( (item1 item2)
    ;; create a couple of menu items
    item1 = hiCreateMenuItem( ?name 'item1 ?itemText "My First Item"
              ?callback "AmitFunctionOne()"
            )
    item2 = hiCreateMenuItem( ?name 'item2 ?itemText "My Second Item"
              ?callback "AmitFunctionTwo()"
            )
    ;; create a menu that includes the menu items and return a list of the
    ;; pulldown menus
    hiCreatePulldownMenu('AmitMenu "Amit Menu" list(item1 item2))
  )
)

procedure(AmitAddMenu(args)
  unless(boundp('AmitMenu)
    AmitCreateMenu()
  )
  list(AmitMenu)
); procedure

procedure(AmitAddToCIW()
  unless(boundp('AmitMenu)
    AmitCreateMenu()
  )
  hiInsertBannerMenu(hiGetCIWindow() AmitMenu  3 )
)

;; create a userMenuTrigger trigger that automatically adds the menu
deRegUserTriggers("maskLayout" nil 'AmitAddMenu)
; may need to initialise CIW menus before adding
ciwMenuInit()
AmitAddToCIW()
  • in reply to Andrew Beckett

    Hello Andrew,

    Sorry for delay in reply.. thanks for your code and it works fine for him.

    Regards

    Sonu

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