WindowID of Mechanical main windows for message box
How I get the WindowID of the Mechanical main window to pop up an error message?MessageBox.Show(???, "Message Box Text", "Message Box Title", MessageBoxType.Error, MessageBoxButtons.OK)
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@ThomasDD I don't think this info is needed. Use:
- clr.AddReference("Ans.UI.Toolkit.Base")
- clr.AddReference("Ans.UI.Toolkit")
- from Ansys.UI.Toolkit import *
- MessageBox.Show('test')
or:
- msg = Ansys.Mechanical.Application.Message('my Warning message as string...', MessageSeverityType.Warning)
- ExtAPI.Application.Messages.Add(msg)
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The first answer is known to me. The problem is that the icon cannot be changed.
The second thing I will try. Thanks!
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ChatGPT gave me the right answer!
MessageBox.Show(ExtAPI.UserInterface.MainWindow, "Message Box Text", "Message Box Title", MessageBoxType.Error, MessageBoxButtons.OK)0 -
ExtAPI.UserInterface.MainWindow seems to work. I get an error message that blocks the Mechanical Window until you click on OK. But the focus on the main Window seems lost after that. It seems that ExtAPI.UserInterface.MainWindow is a small and invisible window and not the Mechanical main window.
ExtAPI.UserInterface.MainWindow.Width returns "2" only, for example...
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ExtAPI.UserInterface.MainWindow.Width = 200
ExtAPI.UserInterface.MainWindow.Height = 200If you change the size of ExtAPI.UserInterface.MainWindow, you see that mysterious thing at the top left corner of the Mechanical Window:
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@ThomasDD As this API is not documented, we can't guarantee that it will work... and unfortunately that seems to be the case here. Another solution would be to use Windows Form to create your pop up Window. (Also another method we don't officially support, but as this one is documented by Windows you'll probably manage to get it working). There are a couple of posts on the forum around using this API.
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