Color of NCI icon

[Masako Nohara Genetec]

I have a question about the color of NCI icon in the toolpath manager.

For this icon, Mastercam has two color of status.

Black with grey lines for displayed, grey with green lines for not displayed.

 

But one of our customer loaded MCX file whose toolpaths had created with our customized chook,

the NCI icons are displayed with light blue with black lines.

 

I couldn't find this bitmap of this icon in resource files of Mastercam.

 

Does anybody know that how Mastercam assign this icon and meaning of this color of icon?

[Takashi Sato from Ai Solutions.]

See op.db.display_toolpath is true or false.

it will toggle toolpath display on/off

[Masako Nohara Genetec]

Thank you for your help.

But I'd like to know why my NCI icon is displayed in strange color.

(with light blue with black lines)

[Takashi Sato from Ai Solutions.]

you mean this icon?

quote:

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Toolpath NCI not restored - The NCI file has not been restored (via a toolpath regeneration) since the file was opened with the "restore NCI" option deselected (icon is light blue).

Note: Click the Options button in the upper right corner of Mastercam's Open dialog box to set this restore NCI option.

 

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[Masako Nohara Genetec]

Thank you for you reply.

But it's not exactly my status.

My icon is displayed without "X"(dirty) mark.

[Takashi Sato from Ai Solutions.]

Hmm, I found that icon in opmanres.dll.

But I have no idea what it is.

[Thee Rickster ™]

I'd like to change mine to blue with black lines.

I can barely tell the difference between the 2

default colors.

[Roger Martin from CNC Software]

Rickster,

 

Resource Tuner

 

Of course make sure you have a backup copy of the Resource DLL that you're altering!

 

You'll find Mastercam's resources in the [mcamx is here]resources folder.

[Roger Martin from CNC Software]

Aqua / Takashi,

 

Are you referring to this icon? ->

It is bitmap resource #702 in the OPMANRES.dll

 

"...loaded MCX file whose toolpaths had created with our customized chook".

 

Aqua,

Have the creator of your CHook check the value of the op->db.nci_restored item in the operations it is creating.

If nci_restored == FALSE (and the operation is not marked as "dirty") you will get that icon.

 

[ 02-26-2008, 10:35 AM: Message edited by: Roger Martin from CNC Software ]

[Thee Rickster ™]

Roger,

 

Very interesting software, thanks for the link.

 

Rick

[Masako Nohara Genetec]

Hello,Roger.

Sorry for the slow reply. The creator checked the value and it was FALSE.

Thank you for your imformation!

I appreciate your help.