I am using C++. I cut and paste your code into my program with no luck. Do you know what library contains this function? Right now my list of additional dependencies is: UICtrls.lib MCMill.lib MCCore.lib Mastercam.lib MCMachineDef.lib STEP-NC guy

Markov, This looks like it might work but I am getting an undefined symbol error from the linker for SetActiveMachine. The signature of the function makes me wonder if there has been a change between VC 7 and VC8, or maybe I need to include another dependency file, if so which one? extern DllExport MC_BOOL SetActiveMachine (LPCTSTR name); I tried changing LPCTSTR name to char * name without any joy. STEP-NC guy

Takashi, This code worked. Thanks very much my problem #1 is gone. For problem #2 I want to set the Machine type to mill/Generic Haas 4X MM. Letting the type be the default does not seem to work. Eventually, I am going to want to set the Machine type to a value taken from my input data. STEP-NC guy

Takashi, I am setting the group idn but perhaps I am setting it to the wrong value. My code to get the idn value consists of the single line m_grp_idn = default_op_group (group_list_ptr, NULL_ID); at tbe beginning of the program. This part of the API is new to me so perhaps I need to do more. Thanks for the pointer. STEP-NC Guy

Hi, I have CHook code that I am moving from MCAM9 to MCAM X2. Mostly the transfer has been seamless but I have three problems: 1. When my program creates tools using the tool manager they do not appear in the operation dialog until I save and then restore the data to an mcx file. 2. Unlike MC9, MCX has Machine types, are there any new functions in CHooks that I can use to set the machine type? 3. When I run my program MCX pops-up a dialog box asking the user to "Enter a new NC name" is there a function that I can use to set this name to a default in my program? Thanks in advance for any help that you can give me. STEP-NC Guy.