Fire custom tool from another custom tool

BrianBulla

Hi,

I'm trying to run a custom tool from an Editor Extension I am building.  I've done this before with out of the box ArcMap tools (ie. Zoom to Selection), but for some reason this code I am using will not work for a custom tool I have created.  The tool GUID is {079952c5-83c1-49e8-bd1a-4440f623281f} and it is definitely in my map, but when I run the tool it can't seem to find it based on the GUID, so cmdItem is null and the line "cmdItem.Execute();" does not run.

Any ideas what I am doing wrong??

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Anonymous User

Hey Brian,

Where are you getting the GUID for the tool from? If its an add-in dont get confused with the GUID of the add-in itself, as shown in the config file.

For an add-in tool you would normally use the ID of the tool to find it.

e.g. config.esriaddinx

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      <SPAN class="token tag"><SPAN class="token tag"><SPAN class="punctuation token"><</SPAN>Commands</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">></SPAN></SPAN>
        <Tool id="ParttoFeature_ParttoFeatureCmd" ...
        <Button id="ParttoFeature_ActivatePart" ...
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to find the "ParttoFeature_ParttoFeatureCmd" tool

      <SPAN class="comment token">//find the addin tool</SPAN>
      ICommandBars documentBars <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> ArcMap<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>Application<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>Document<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>CommandBars<SPAN class="punctuation token">;</SPAN>
      UID cmdID <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> <SPAN class="keyword token">new</SPAN> <SPAN class="token class-name">UIDClass</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">;</SPAN>
      cmdID<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>Value <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> <SPAN class="string token">"ParttoFeature_ParttoFeatureCmd"</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">;</SPAN>
      ICommandItem cmdItem <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> documentBars<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN><SPAN class="token function">Find</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN>cmdID<SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN> <SPAN class="keyword token">false</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN> <SPAN class="keyword token">false</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">;</SPAN>
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