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Installing a menu using userMenuTrigger

Shico90

Hello, 
I'm trying to add a menu to my schematic window using userMenuTrigger instead of post install trigger as suggested many times in these forums. The problem is every time I open the application where the menu is supposed to be installed, I get 
*Error* append: argument #1 should be a list or another acceptable type - t

That's the error coming from cds.log

\i ddsServOpen("spacetime" "test" "schematic" "read" nil nil)
\e *Error* append: argument #1 should be a list or another acceptable type - t

and that's how I register the menu in schematic

deRegUserTriggers("schematic" nil 'MyMenu_sch)

Not sure what does the error mean or why it happens. I have to say that this problem doesn't happen when I register the menu using postinstalltrigger

Thanks for your help.

  • Andrew Beckett

    The user menu trigger should not return t and it should also not add the pulldown menus into window itself. It should return a list of pulldown menus and then the "Design Editor" system will take care of adding them into the set of pulldown menus for that window.

    So that's what's wrong - your code is doing the wrong thing.

    Note, you should not use the user postInstall trigger to add menus either, as things can misbehave if you do that (you can find that the triggers fight with each other if there is more than one post install trigger).

    Andrew

  • RK56
    in reply to Andrew Beckett
    Andrew Beckett said:
    "Design Editor" system will take care of adding them into the set of pulldown menus for that window

    Is that you are referring to user menu files? I mean instead of using hiCreateMenu* functions

    -Thanks

    Ramakrishnan

  • Andrew Beckett
    in reply to RK56
    RK56 said:
    Is that you are referring to user menu files? I mean instead of using hiCreateMenu* functions

    No. I was talking about what happens with userMenuTriggers - you return a list of pulldown menus, and the Design Editor takes care of inserting them into the banner menus for the window (you don't need to nor should do this within the trigger).

    Andrew

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