topic How to Disable a Tool control? in ArcObjects SDK Questions

How to Disable a Tool control?

AndyBridle — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 13:42:03 GMT

Hi,

I'm writing an add-in in VS2010 in VB.Net for ArcMap 10.

I want to run some code whenever the selected tab in a tab control on the displayed form is changed so that it enables and selects the appropriate tool on my toolbar.
I'm using the code below to select the appropriate tool which is working fine but I would also like to disable (grey out) the other tools. Any ideas?

            Dim commandBars As ESRI.ArcGIS.Framework.ICommandBars = My.ArcMap.Application.Document.CommandBars
            Dim commandID As ESRI.ArcGIS.esriSystem.UID = New ESRI.ArcGIS.esriSystem.UIDClass
            commandID.Value = "esriArcMapUI.SelectFeaturesTool"
            Dim commandItem As ESRI.ArcGIS.Framework.ICommandItem = commandBars.Find(commandID, False, False)

            If Not (commandItem Is Nothing) Then
                My.ArcMap.Application.CurrentTool = commandItem
            End If

Re: How to Disable a Tool control?

sapnas — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 13:56:17 GMT

I'm not sure if this is helpful but check out the below link that has an option to enable and disable the command member of ICommandItem.

http://edndoc.esri.com/arcobjects/8.3/componenthelp/esriCore/ICommand_Enabled.htm

Re: How to Disable a Tool control?

sapnas — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:01:26 GMT

here is the link for arcobjects 10

http://help.arcgis.com/en/sdk/10.0/arcobjects_net/componenthelp/index.html#//004300000025000000