How to open Workbench ACT and launch a wizard by script

charlie.wang

Is there any way to launch a ACT wizard by script?

Aria

Your wizard is ultimately a callback to a python function. You can call that python function within your extension with your inputs.

Lets assume you run your script in a bat file like following

"%AWP_ROOT231%\Framework\bin\win64\RunWB2.exe" -B -R my_script.py

then, my_script would activate the extension and run the python callback

appAPI = Ansys.ACT.Core.ApplicationRepository.GetApplication("Project")
ExtAPI = appAPI.GetExtensionApi(None)

myACTName = "SomeACTextension"
extension = [x for x in ExtAPI.ExtensionManager.Extensions if x.Name == myACTName]

if len(extension) == 1:
    appFormat = "Scripted" # or = "Binary"
    GUID = "some-GUID-value"
    Extensions.LoadExtension(Id=GUID, Format=appFormat)
    ext=ExtAPI.ExtensionManager.GetExtensionByName(myACTName).GetModule()
    ext.SomeWizardCallback(arg1, arg2, arg3...)

charlie.wang

Thank you. It works now!

Pernelle Marone-Hitz

Han han

how to send the input to ACT using script