Create MyRibbon on HyperWorks2021

FaForno

Dear All,

I would like to add to my graphical interface a menu (Ribbon) with all my macro.

I would like also, in somehow centralize this for all my company.

Something like the user page.

Someone has done it?

 

At the moment I have created a ribbon.tcl with the command (I have added this file in my working directory and I gave to the icon for start the commnad to run it in the target): 

::hwf::ribbonpage add "L:/CAE Office/Macro_Altair/custom.xml"

 

Then I have defined the custom.xml with the definition of my page:

 

ROOT translationcontext="RibbonBars">
    <PAGE name="MyRibbon" displayName="MyRibbon">
        <GROUP name="My Group">
            <ACTION name="Test" toolTip="Tolltip Test" image="tempMainRibbonStrip-80.png" tcl="source L:/CAE Office/Macro_Altair/test.tcl" />
        </GROUP>
    </PAGE>
    <MENU name="MyMenu" displayName="MyMenu">
        <MENU_ITEM displayName="Test1" hwcommand="source L:/CAE Office/Macro_Altair/test.tcl"/>
    </MENU>
</ROOT>

where the routine test.tcl is a simple routine to verify if it works.

 

At the moment it doesn't work and I can not upload this ribbon with test.tcl file.

Do you have any idea on how to fix this matter? 

 

Thanks a lot to All.

 

Ben Buchanan

I would definitely look into extensions for this:

https://help.altair.com/hwdesktop/hwd/topics/reference/extensions/extensions_r.htm

Extensions are a great way to share things too.

Here is a blog where I go through the creation of a ribbon:

https://community.altair.com/community?id=community_blog&sys_id=0c38fa1fdb7401d0cfd5f6a4e296198f

The Extension Manager changed in 2022.1 and I am working on a new blog to go over these changes.