topic Python Add-in puzzler with menus on a toolbar in Python Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/python-add-in-puzzler-with-menus-on-a-toolbar/m-p/288280#M22312 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I created a Python add-in with the wizard. Then I created a toolbar with a couple of combo boxes and tools. Lastly, I added a menu to hold three buttons that will generate PDF maps that I call the print menu.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I've got the combo boxes initializing as enabled = False, then changing them to true after the user selects some features with the tools. All pretty nice.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I'd like to make the buttons on the print menu disabled until the combo boxes have accepted their value entries. But there's a problem.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>If you try to set them to enabled with the combo box you get a message that the item doesn't exist. That's because those three items haven't been created or initialized yet.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The buttons in the print menu don't initialize until someone clicks the menu name on the toolbar. At that point, the three buttons are initialized and set to be disabled. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The menu items don't exist in the Python script that is user editable, so you can't control them there. They only exist in the config.xml file.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>My question, then, is if there is a way to initialize the menu and its buttons when the toolbar initializes?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 03 Jul 2013 18:30:29 GMT DavidAllen 2013-07-03T18:30:29Z Python Add-in puzzler with menus on a toolbar https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/python-add-in-puzzler-with-menus-on-a-toolbar/m-p/288280#M22312 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I created a Python add-in with the wizard. Then I created a toolbar with a couple of combo boxes and tools. Lastly, I added a menu to hold three buttons that will generate PDF maps that I call the print menu.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I've got the combo boxes initializing as enabled = False, then changing them to true after the user selects some features with the tools. All pretty nice.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I'd like to make the buttons on the print menu disabled until the combo boxes have accepted their value entries. But there's a problem.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>If you try to set them to enabled with the combo box you get a message that the item doesn't exist. That's because those three items haven't been created or initialized yet.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The buttons in the print menu don't initialize until someone clicks the menu name on the toolbar. At that point, the three buttons are initialized and set to be disabled. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The menu items don't exist in the Python script that is user editable, so you can't control them there. They only exist in the config.xml file.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>My question, then, is if there is a way to initialize the menu and its buttons when the toolbar initializes?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 03 Jul 2013 18:30:29 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/python-add-in-puzzler-with-menus-on-a-toolbar/m-p/288280#M22312 DavidAllen 2013-07-03T18:30:29Z Re: Python Add-in puzzler with menus on a toolbar https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/python-add-in-puzzler-with-menus-on-a-toolbar/m-p/288281#M22313 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>At the bottom of your add-in .py file you can pre-initialize them like this:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN style="font-family:Courier New;">button1 = ButtonClass() # Assuming you have a button named button1 with class ButtonClass</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>This usually works fine.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 03 Jul 2013 21:49:40 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/python-add-in-puzzler-with-menus-on-a-toolbar/m-p/288281#M22313 JasonScheirer 2013-07-03T21:49:40Z