Creating partial cuix that appends Panel to “Add-ins” tab

By Balaji Ramamoorthy

Here is a sample code to create a partial cuix at runtime. It creates a ribbon panel with a command button. After the cuix is loaded in AutoCAD using cuiload, the panel should appear in the “Add-ins” tab.

CustomizationSection csNew = new CustomizationSection();
csNew.MenuGroupName = "myMenuGroup";

// Create a new menu macro
MacroGroup myMacGroup = 
    new MacroGroup("myMacroGroup", csNew.MenuGroup);

MenuMacro macroLine = myMacGroup.CreateMenuMacro(
    "TestLine", 
    "^C^C_Line ", 
    "ID_MyLineCmd", 
    "My Line help", 
    MacroType.Any, 
    "RCDATA_16_LINE", 
    "RCDATA_32_LINE", 
    "My Test Line");

RibbonRoot ribbonRoot = csNew.MenuGroup.RibbonRoot;

// Create a panel
RibbonPanelSource ribPanelSource
    = new RibbonPanelSource(ribbonRoot);
ribPanelSource.Text = "MyPanel";

// Create a ribbon row
RibbonRow ribRow = new RibbonRow();
ribPanelSource.Items.Add((RibbonItem)ribRow);

//Create a Ribbon Command Button
RibbonCommandButton ribCommandButton 
    = new RibbonCommandButton(ribRow);
ribCommandButton.Text = "MyTestLineButton";
ribCommandButton.MacroID = macroLine.ElementID;

//Add the ribbon command button to the ribbon row 
ribRow.Items.Add((RibbonItem)ribCommandButton);

//Get the panels from the RibbonRoot 
RibbonPanelSourceCollection panels 
    = ribbonRoot.RibbonPanelSources;

// Add the Ribbon Panel Source to the Ribbon Panels 
panels.Add(ribPanelSource);

RibbonTabSourceCollection tabs 
    = ribbonRoot.RibbonTabSources;

// Create a new Ribbon Tab Source 
RibbonTabSource tabSrc 
    = new RibbonTabSource(ribbonRoot);
tabSrc.Name = "MyTab";
tabSrc.Text = "MyTab";
tabSrc.ElementID = "MyTabElementID";
tabSrc.Aliases.Add("ID_ADDINSTAB");
tabSrc.WorkspaceBehavior 
    = TabWorkspaceBehavior.MergeOrAddTab;
tabs.Add(tabSrc);

if (tabSrc != null)
{
    //Add the Panel to the Tab 
    RibbonPanelSourceReference ribPanelSourceRef 
        = new RibbonPanelSourceReference(tabSrc);
    ribPanelSourceRef.PanelId 
        = ribPanelSource.ElementID;
    ribPanelSourceRef.ElementID = "MyPanelID";
    tabSrc.Items.Add(ribPanelSourceRef);
}

csNew.SaveAs(strCuiFile);