Creating a Task Pane in VBA

Discussion created by Christopher Dubea on Aug 10, 2020
Latest reply on Aug 10, 2020 by Christopher Dubea

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So,

I'm playing around with creating a Task Pane dohicky in VBA. Please don't suggest other tools, for a myriad of reasons that I'm not at liberty to discuss, that's a non-starter.

I found this in the API examples: https://help.solidworks.com/2019/english/api/sldworksapi/add_buttons_to_task_pane_example_vb.htm

Unfortunately, it doesn't work.

In the class we have:

swTaskPane.SetButtonState(buttonIdx) = True

Which, firstly is the wrong syntax.

should be: 
swTaskPane.SetButtonState(buttonIdx, Enable) = True

Unfortunately, once I do that I get an error saying:

"Expected Function or variable."

Any thoughts on what the issue could be?

Is this a function of the fact that the Microsoft Calendar control has been deprecated long ago?

Thanks!

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Austin Schukar Aug 10, 2020 10:59 AM

'Enable' is a variable used in the API Help, and needs to be declared and set - otherwise VBA doesn't know what to do with it.

Visual Basic (Usage)
Dim instance As ITaskpaneView Dim ButtonIndex As System.Integer Dim Enable As System.Boolean instance.SetButtonState(ButtonIndex, Enable)

Parameters

ButtonIndex: Index of Task Pane button
Enable: True to enable Task Pane button, false to disable it

You could skip the declaration and just use the raw boolean value:

swTaskPane.SetButtonState(buttonIdx, True)

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Fifi Riri Aug 10, 2020 10:59 AM

Hello.

It should be:

swTaskPane.SetButtonState buttonIdx, True

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Christopher Dubea @ Fifi Riri on Aug 10, 2020 1:13 PM

Awesome!. That worked. Thanks.

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Austin Schukar Aug 10, 2020 10:59 AM
'Enable' is a variable used in the API Help, and needs to be declared and set - otherwise VBA doesn't know what to do with it.
Visual Basic (Usage)
Dim instance As ITaskpaneView
Dim ButtonIndex As System.Integer
Dim Enable As System.Boolean
instance.SetButtonState(ButtonIndex, Enable)
Parameters
ButtonIndex
Index of Task Pane button
Enable
True to enable Task Pane button, false to disable it

You could skip the declaration and just use the raw boolean value:
swTaskPane.SetButtonState(buttonIdx, True)
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Fifi Riri Aug 10, 2020 10:59 AM
Hello.
It should be:
swTaskPane.SetButtonState buttonIdx, True
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- Christopher Dubea @ Fifi Riri on Aug 10, 2020 1:13 PM
  Awesome!. That worked. Thanks.
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