[Greg Wahl]

?I would like to add an Action Button to a form that will include 2 actions.  Are the actions added to that button in modifier when I place the button on the form or do I programmatically add the actions to the button in VST? 

I couldn’t find where in modifier I would add them and I can’t find anything on the internet as far as adding actions to action button.

Any help would be appreciated.

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Greg Wahl
Senior Database Administrator
Owensboro Municipal Utilities
Owensboro KY
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[David Musgrave]

Hi Greg

You would need to add a Button Drop List field into window control area (toolbar) of the window.

However, it probably will not get added to the ribbon as this requires some Dexterity code to move the button to the ribbon.

I will have a look to see if you can perform this step with VST.

David

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David Musgrave MVP, GPUG All-Star

Managing Director
Winthrop Development Consultants

Perth, Western Australia

http://www.winthropdc.com
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[Greg Wahl]

Thanks, David.

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Greg Wahl
Senior Database Administrator
Owensboro Municipal Utilities
Owensboro KY
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[Andrew Dean]

Hi Greg

Envisage Software has developed a FREE utility called VST Controls that allows a programmer to add any Windows Control component onto any GP Form. Check out the details at VST Controls – Envisage Software Solutions

I think you should be able to achieve your aim with this tool.

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Andrew Dean
Envisage Software Solutions
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[David Musgrave]

Greg

You can add an event to the form level procedure InitializeWindowRibbon.

But I am looking at the code inside InitializeWindowRibbon and I am not sure if adding an after event will work as the call to FinalizeRibbon of form syWebClientRibbon would have already been made.

I think some testing would be needed if you want to make this happen.

David

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David Musgrave MVP, GPUG All-Star

Managing Director
Winthrop Development Consultants

Perth, Western Australia

http://www.winthropdc.com
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[Greg Wahl]

?Thanks.  I will take a look at that.

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Greg Wahl
Senior Database Administrator
Owensboro Municipal Utilities
Owensboro KY
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[Greg Wahl]

?Thanks, Andrew.  I will take a look at that

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Greg Wahl
Senior Database Administrator
Owensboro Municipal Utilities
Owensboro KY
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[Nicole Albertson]

Greg,

It isn’t exactly what you are looking for, but with your Extender Enterprise, you can add Actions to a GP window and have them go onto the Additional menu.  You cannot add a button to a GP window using Extender, but you could add it to the menus if that works for you.  

The other option that might work is that if you are on Extender 2016 or 2018, there is an Action Type of PreScript.  So, you could create a button in Modifier and then potentially add the action in Extender to that button using the PreScript option.  The reason I say 2016 is that we added the PreScript option in one of our 2016 builds.  I haven’t tested this out completely, but it may work for you as well.

I am not sure what you want your actions to do, but these might be an option for you.  If you want to discuss further, just let me know.

Thanks,
Nicole

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Nicole Albertson
Product Manager
eOne Solutions
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[Dan Peltier]

The Modifier – VST path would look something like this:

Use Modifier to add the button, this adds a modified form to Forms.DIC.
DAG that dictionary, and import the DLL into your VST project.
Instantiate the modified form in your VS solution, and add whatever code you want to the .NET events. 

If you go this route, and you don’t want this code available to everyone, you have to include some kind of check in your .NET code to see if the user should have access to the window or not, I had a case a while back where we had to set up all that, I still have the sample code if you do want to go this route. VST is a little weird in that we’re working with our modified window, but it’s still a part of the original window so certain events can fire regardless of which window is opened.

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Dan Peltier
Sr. Support Engineer
Microsoft
Fargo ND
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