Custom Palettes in DIAdem

[AJL]

Is there a way to create custom palettes in DIAdem 9.1 or DIAdem 10?  I would like to have a palette that when the icon is clicked on a specific script is run.  I know how to do this with custom menu's but I think a palette would be easier to use.

Thanks in advance.

AJL

[Brad_Turpin]

Hi AJL,

Sorry, DIAdem doesn't support adding customized items to its Panel palettes.  The most obvious place for this would be in the ANALYSIS panel, where a customer's specific analysis scripts would be ideally housed.  Menu customization is probably the best option for the time being.  You can actually use those same menu customization functions to hijack one or more of the existing icons right below the menus in each Panel.  So if you're willing to live without the normal functionality of a given icon, you can associate a custom VBScript to run when that icon is pressed.  There may even be a way to change the appearance of those icons-- but that I'm not sure of.  At any rate I am NOT speaking of the panel icons, but rather the ones on the top of your screen just below the menus.

This is an area of DIAdem that R&D has been musing about for a while, but my recommendation to you is to learn to live with existing functionality.  My guess is that we'll eventually get some added customization here, but I doubt it will be any time soon.

As a gift-offering, I am inclosing my own personal object class for creating DIAdem menus.  I find these much easier to use, particularly for large menus that I keep changing.  Also, if you're interested, I have a second example built on these classes which automatically creates DIAdem custom menus based on a particular directory structure-- this enables you to configure your DIAdem menu by simply arranging a particular folder in Windows Explorer.

Regards,

Brad Turpin

DIAdem Product Support Engineer

[Brad_Turpin]

Here's the gift offering.

[AJL]

How can I "hijack" an Icon?

[JonathanN]

Hi AJL,

I am not sure I understand exactly what you are asking for. Could you please clarify what you mean by "hijack"?

Best Regards,

[mdelsol]

Hi all,

I have a similar "problem": Before to call an InteractionOn I would like to deactivate or hide some of the icons of the DIAdem VIEW, for example the Print and Calculator icons...

Is that possible? How can I do it?

Regards,

Marc.

[AJL]

By "Hijack", I was referring to Brad's post.  Apparently you can use the existing icons below the menu bar and change what action the icon performs.  I was wondering how this is accomplished.

AJL

[Julia Dawkins]

>By "Hijack", I was referring to Brad's post.  Apparently you can use the existing icons below the menu bar and change what action the >icon performs.  I was wondering how this is accomplished.

This is from the DIAdem Help files for Command: MenuItemChange: (it works for me!)

WndName	Specifies the name of a DIAdem panel.
MenuItemPos	Specifies the menu to which DIAdem adds a menu or a menu item.
MenuItemTitle	Specifies the label of a menu or of a menu item.
[MenuItemFct]	Specifies the function of a menu item in the Toolbar.

Call MenuItemChange(WndName, MenuItemPos, MenuItemTitle, [MenuItemFct])

The following example assigns the ToolTip Start Calculator and the CalculatorStart command to the third button in the DIAdem VIEW Toolbar.

Call MenuItemChange("VIEW","I.3","Start Calculator","Call CalculatorStart")

[mdelsol]

Hi,

I see how it works, but do you know why the commands: "MenuItemCountGet" and "MenuItemInfoGet" do not work with the icons?

We can use the MenuItemDel to remove an icon. It’s possible only to deactivate an icon?

Any way my problem is solved.

Thanks for showing me how to access to de icons… “I.3”

Best regards,

Marc.

[Julia Dawkins]

'MenuItemCountGet" and "MenuItemInfoGet" for "MenuItemPos" = "C" or "I" does not work for me either, perhaps I am not using it correctly.  The following:

Call MenuItemCountGet("SCRIPT", "I")
MsgBox MenuItemCount

returns "-1" for me 😞  

Hi,

I see how it works, but do you know why the commands: "MenuItemCountGet" and "MenuItemInfoGet" do not work with the icons?

We can use the MenuItemDel to remove an icon. It’s possible only to deactivate an icon?

Any way my problem is solved.

Thanks for showing me how to access to de icons… “I.3”

Best regards,

Marc.