topic Re: modeless application in Archicad C++ API

modeless application

Anonymous — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 09:47:40 GMT

Hi,

I want to start an external program by ArchiCAD 13. The program starts but ArchiCAD is blocked then. But I want to switch between ArchiCAD and my program.

I tried to start the program by a modeless dialog. But then the dialog and ArchiCAD are blocked both.

Is there a way to start a external application modeless?

Thanks for helping

Andreas

Re: modeless application

Ralph Wessel — Wed, 19 May 2010 11:06:08 GMT

andreas_s wrote:
I want to start an external program by ArchiCAD 13. The program starts but ArchiCAD is blocked then. But I want to switch between ArchiCAD and my program.

What method did you use to launch the external application?

Re: modeless application

Anonymous — Wed, 19 May 2010 11:45:01 GMT

Ralph wrote:
What method did you use to launch the external application?

It's a libary which I added to the project. And I included its header-file. So I called the execute-function of the libary.

Re: modeless application

Ralph Wessel — Wed, 19 May 2010 12:31:44 GMT

andreas_s wrote:
It's a libary which I added to the project. And I included its header-file. So I called the execute-function of the libary.

OK - it sounds as if you have actually called an external function rather than launching an application. This means your add-on (and consequently ArchiCAD) will not resume running until the function returns.

What kind of process are you trying to launch? And what is its intended purpose?

Re: modeless application

Anonymous — Tue, 25 May 2010 07:48:48 GMT

Thanks. I changed the show-methods in my application. Now it starts modeless.