Creating a custom button

[daniel.greil]

I am pretty new to python and Alibre Script and I am trying to build a GUI.
My goal is to create a custom button which should be able to perform a custom action (deleting a file on button press).
At first I tried doing that with the native WindowsInputTypes. Then I tried importing a module called 'tkinter'. That didn't work aswell.

Is there any way I can implement that button

Thanks in advance
Daniel

 

[NateLiquidGravity]

It is possible but very complicated. The short version is that you will need to import and create 'System.Windows.Forms'.
Here is a script I made with a custom GUI.

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[daniel.greil]

Thanks. I wasn't aware that this is a thing. I will look into it

 

[idslk]

I am trying to build a GUI.

What kind of GUI are you thinking about?
For a lot of things AlibreScript is easy to use.
Selecting a file and deleting it is possible with AlibreScript, but maybe quicker if you do it with windows directly...
If you want to do more complex things i would recoment to think about AddOn programming.
But beware, also there you do not have access to all functions of alibre...

Regards
Stefan

 

[daniel.greil]

What kind of GUI are you thinking about?
For a lot of things AlibreScript is easy to use.
Selecting a file and deleting it is possible with AlibreScript, but maybe quicker if you do it with windows directly...
If you want to do more complex things i would recoment to think about AddOn programming.
But beware, also there you do not have access to all functions of alibre...

Regards
Stefan

I am trying to create a GUI where the User can export his current part to a file.
This program also needs to create and read a .ini file, which is needed to save some Information. My custom button should delete this Ini file on button press.
Currently, I am trying to accomplish that with Windows Forms but apparently the OpenFileDialog function doesn't want to start working.
In the attachment below, I found a script that contains the OpenFileDialog function, but it doesn't work either.

Thanks
Daniel

 

[NateLiquidGravity]

I am trying to create a GUI where the User can export his current part to a file.
This program also needs to create and read a .ini file, which is needed to save some Information. My custom button should delete this Ini file on button press.
Currently, I am trying to accomplish that with Windows Forms but apparently the OpenFileDialog function doesn't want to start working.
In the attachment below, I found a script that contains the OpenFileDialog function, but it doesn't work either.

Thanks
Daniel

I assume you want the AlibreScript OpenFileDialog function?

Win = Windows()
Value = Win.OpenFileDialog('Title',  'Part Files|*.AD_PRT', '.AD_PRT')
if not Value:
    inputFile.Text = ''
else:
    inputFile.Text = str(Value)