Peck amount with NET-Hooks

[ThomasF]

I am trying to pass several drill parameters, the most important being the peck amount, to operations I create with a NET-Hook in C#.

But NET-Hooks don't seem to provide any means to define the peck amount.

At least I can't find anything about it in the reference guide.

 

Now I am suspecting that other operations will also have restrictions as to which parameters I can define in a NET-Hook.

Is that correct and I should have switched to C-Hooks instead of C# NET-Hooks (sigh!)?

 

Any advice greatly appreciated...

[Roger Martin from CNC Software]

But NET-Hooks don't seem to provide any means to define the peck amount.

I saw this as thought of course you should be able to...

and then I dug deeper and found that you cannot. ;(

I will log a request that the DrillOperation support in NETHook API gets a look over and improved.

*Any changes when they come will happen after X6.

 

Now I am suspecting that other operations will also have restrictions as to which parameters I can define in a NET-Hook.

The functionality in the NETHook API is a sub-set of what you can do in a CHook.

 

Is that correct and I should have switched to C-Hooks instead of C# NET-Hooks (sigh!)?

Which method you use (NETHook and/or CHook) really depends on what functionality your AddOn will require to accomplish its task.

[ThomasF]

The functionality in the NETHook API is a sub-set of what you can do in a CHook.

...

Which method you use (NETHook and/or CHook) really depends on what functionality your AddOn will require to accomplish its task.

I noticed that even the equivalent for the VBScript 'AskForFilename' is missing in the NETHook API.

 

Will have to jump on the CHook train (again).

So much changed since good old Watcom...

(Big sigh!)

[Roger Martin from CNC Software]

'AskForFilename' ?

 

From Visual Studio's Object Browser when browsing NETHook2_0.DLL ->

 

public static string Open()

Member of Mastercam.IO.FileManager

 

Summary:

This is used to prompt the user to select a file to open within Mastercam.

 

Returns:

The full path of the opened file if the user successfully chose a file to open and a null value if not.

[ThomasF]

Just came back to correct myself... Wanted to delete/edit my last post.

But you are too fast.

 

Although this is not exactly what I was looking for.

But there will be something for that, if I just look hard enough.

 

And now I will stop whining!