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Plugin Wizard: Launching from editor toggle toolbar and changing icon?

Hello,

I'm pretty new to developing in FV. I currently am creating a plugin for FV 4.2.1.1005 using the Plugin Wizard in VS2005 and C#. I've gotten the plugin to launch correctly but not the way I want it to launch.

The wizard adds a button for the plugin in the 'editor toggle toolbar'. Pressing this button then loads another vertical toolbar on the right side of the screen with a few buttons.

I don't want this extra toolbar to show up. When I click the button in the 'editor toggle toolbar' I want it to pop up my plugin and that's all.

Also, the icon that is displayed for my plugin in the 'editor toggle toolbar' is red and yellow with a question mark in it. I want to use my own icon for this but I can't figure out how to change it because I can't figure out where this is set. I can't even find this question mark icon on my system! However, the icon file that I include in my .fvz file is displayed correctly in the extra vertical toolbar and I see where it sets this in the code but again I don't want this extra toolbar.

Thank you, Aaron

ammckellar
04/20/11 12:35:08 (2 years ago)
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  • Message #800

    I figured out how to launch the plugin from the 'editor toggle toolbar' so I don't need help with that anymore.

    However, I still have not figured out how to change the icon for it's button. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

    Thank you, Aaron

    ammckellar
    04/20/11 13:42:42 (2 years ago)
  • Message #802

    The icon is specified in the configuration file FvOverlayTypes?.xml. It is the iconFile attribute of the OverlayType? tag.

    I'm not familiar with the plug-in wizard so don't know how it is set in the .fvz file.

    george.menhorn
    04/20/11 15:30:34 (2 years ago)
  • Message #803

    Thank you for your reply.

    There is no FvOverlayTypes?.xml file on my machine. I do have a FvOverlayTypes?.xsd file though which I understand is an XML schema.

    There is an element defined as: <xs.element name="OverlayType?" maxOccurs="unbounded">

    In that element there is an attribute: <xs.attribute name="iconFile" use="required" />

    I am not really all that familiar with XML so could you explain what I need to do here?

    Also, the icon I am trying to change here is not set in the .fvz file because that icon file is used for the extra toolbar I mentioned earlier that I am no longer using.

    Thanks

    ammckellar
    04/20/11 18:52:53 (2 years ago)
  • Message #804

    If you are running vista/win7 the configuration file will be in \ProgramData?\PFPS\data\config. For XP it will live in \documents and settings\all users\application data\pfps\data\config.

    george.menhorn
    04/21/11 10:23:19 (2 years ago)
  • Message #805

    Found it. Thank you!

    ammckellar
    04/21/11 17:12:49 (2 years ago)
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