where to learn about "c-hook" ?

[cutama]

Hello,

I'm new to Mastercam but my boss asked me to do something with "c-hooks" . Now it seems that I can find very little info about this on the web . Can anyone point me where I can learn more about "c-hooks" ?

Thanks,

Chris

[cadcam]

Mastercam has chooks inside when you install it.

use the keys "Alt" "C" at the same time to see them.

now to learn about them, go in to the Mcam8 dir look for Chooks and in there you will find *.Doc files about these chooks.

Here is a place to start.

Good luck.

[Bullines]

Simply put, C-Hooks are software extensions to Mastercam. They can automate tasks and introduce features that are not included with the default Mastercam installation, and they come in the form of DLLs. Mastercam ships with several C-Hooks developed by CNC Software that are located in the Chooks subdirectory of your Mastercam directory. Third-party C-Hooks and custom C-Hooks are developed by other companies as well. If you are familiar with the C programming language, you can develop your own C-Hooks without an interface or you can use Mastercam's menu system. If you familiar with C++ and the MFC library, you can develop C-Hooks with advance user interfaces common to Windows applications. The C-Hook API and documentation can be found on the Mastercam CD. Hope this helps

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

Well put Bullines, you stole my thunder.

I will add a bit though. To build your own C-Hooks, you'll need a copy of Visual C++ 6.0 and a fairly strong Programming(C++, Basic, C, etc...) background.

[Bullines]

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Well put Bullines, you stole my thunder.

I will add a bit though. To build your own C-Hooks, you'll need a copy of Visual C++ 6.0 and a fairly strong Programming(C++, Basic, C, etc...) background.

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Believe it or not, the Mastercam header files also have pre-processor directives for Borland's compiler as well as the one from Watcom (which I believe is Open Source now)

But James is right, MSVC is prefered to develop C-Hooks.

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

Bullines what are yo doing up. Isn't it late where you are???

[Bullines]

Yeah, it was late. I was unwinding after an intense Quake 3 Team Arena Freeze Tag session by reading the forum. Sometimes, those hours just fly by

[cutama]

Thanks !

I've managed to copy the header files and setup MSVC to run a few samples.

So far so good, although I feel that CNC should provide more complete documentation for the API, what we have right now is only cut-and-pasted from the header files.

[Bullines]

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I feel that CNC should provide more complete documentation for the API, what we have right now is only cut-and-pasted from the header files.

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I second that opinion. Some complete CHMs would be nice