Toolbar clarification

[Jonathan Spane]

First of all thanks for the responses to my previous posts.

Just to recap the add-on I am writing is in C++ and now I wokring with
toolbars. I have toolbar being made with buttons in it. Now I am trying to
attach the run commad stuff. Unfortuanately , the help is using Visual Basic
a sample and I am just not porting it right. How should I do it in C++? I
have putAddonName and putAddonArgs methods, but I can't seem to get the
correct format in the putAddOnName for it to work. The button stays
disabled. If I take it out the button becomes enabled but it doesn't do
anything useful.

Thanks
JP

 

[Chris Roth [MVP]]

Hi JP,

Are you able to make a successful call to your add-on via any other methods?

Ie: RUNADDON function in the ShapeSheet, or perhaps from the VBA command
line? Ie:

in ShapeSheet:

EventDblClick = RUNADDON("JPAddOn")

or in VBA command line:

visio.Application.Addons("JPAddOn").Run("args")

That would help to determine if your add-on's function is working in the
first place.

If the functions are accessible from Visio, then I'm not sure what is wrong.
Enclosing quotes? Proper C++ string type (I don't know anything about this,
but I used to overhear people complaining about "bstr" and other
obscurities. But I think the SDK has wrappers for all this these days, no?)

--
Hope this helps,

Chris Roth
Visio MVP

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[Jonathan Spane]

It is working now. Using the name for the addon name which what I was doing
and then just passing the argument without any /arg# = modifier.