Access to IEdmTemplate5 during Template Card Control hook

Hey Jeff,

To answer your question on how to chage combo box values at runtime, or how I've used it:

• Hook into EdmCmd_CardInput in GetAddInInfo
  
  
• Get the template card from EdmCmd (for EdmCard_CardInput it's provided at mlObjectID4)
  • I've added logic to check that this is a card I'd like to have dynamic controls on. Also, after you get the handle for the card, you can check to see if it's the right card type, too (via IEdmCard6.CardType)
  • Ex. if (thiscard.CardType == EdmCardType.EdmCard_Template && thiscard.Name == "CardInQuestion") { ...continue... }
    
    
• The ID of the control that was accessed (i.e. what's calling the EdmCmd_CardInput hook) and the ID of the variable it's tied to are provided at mlObjectID1 and mlLongData1, respectively
  
  
• From here, you can do similar logic checks to be sure that this is the control/variable you're looking for
  • Ex. if (thisvar.Name == "DesiredVariable") { ...continue... }
    
    
• You're given a handle to an IEdmEnumeratorVariable5 via EdmCmd.mpoExtra. Use getVar to get the value of the variable the modified control is tied to, then setVar to set another control's variable based on the choice of the first control.

Hope this helps! Let me know if anything in my ramblings isn't clear

Kyle

Also, it wouldn't be the end of the world to have separate template cards to determine what I need at runtime, to populate the combo box correctly. It would involve remapping ~15 card and template variables to each other, which really isn't that bad at all...

It's more the principle of the matter, and curiousity of if it can be done, rather than avoiding creating two template cards.

Kyle