RibbonMenuButton

Gunnbra

I am trying to make my plugin compatible for both BricsCAD and AutoCAD. The RibbonMenuButton with autocad is from Autodesk.Windows. What do I need to import to get the RibbonMenuButton from BricsCAD.

avc

I use the same CUIX files for plugins for AutoCAD and BricsCAD. This works great. AutoCAD loads CUIX via Bundle, and for Brics you have to call CUIX loading from a plugin:

internal static bool LoadMenu(string pluginPath, string pluginName)
{
  Document doc = Application.DocumentManager.MdiActiveDocument;
  if (doc is null) return false;
  string file = pluginPath + "\\" + pluginName + "_Br.cui"; // first we try to download a special version for BricsCAD
  try
  {
    if (!File.Exists(file))   file = pluginPath + "\\" + pluginName + ".cuix";
    if (!File.Exists(file))   return false;
    int oldFiledia = Convert.ToInt32(Application.GetSystemVariable("FILEDIA"));
    Application.SetSystemVariable("FILEDIA", 0);
    try
    {
      file = file.Replace("\\", "\\\\");
      doc.SendStringToExecute($"(if (eq (menugroup \"{pluginName}\") nil) (command \"_CUILOAD\" \"{file}\")) " , false, true, false);
    }
    finally
    {
      Application.SetSystemVariable("FILEDIA", oldFiledia);
    }
  }
  catch (Exception ex) { return false; }
  return true;
}

Gunnbra

Ok. I am looking for a solution in c#

Owen Wengerd

BricsCAD's .NET API does not implement RibbonMenuButton. You might use a RibbonSplitButton instead.