NX API Getting Started : Adding your own UI to remove journal selection stickiness

NX API Getting Started : Adding your own UI to remove journal selection stickiness

When you record a journal the generated code contains hard-coded references to
any NX objects that you selected rather than code which would put up the UI to
have the end user do the selection.  This is by design and we refer to it as
"Selection Stickiness".

Look for any lines which contain the word "FindObject".  These are the lines
you will need to replace unless your program will always be starting in the
same part at the same state it was in when you recorded it.

To simply prompt the user to select one or more objects, you can use the
various methods on the NXOpen > Selection class that start with the word Select
such as SelectTaggedObject(s).  


If you want to do a more complex UI similar to those seen in NX, then you will
want to use the Block UI Styler or the older UIStyler.  These require a
separate NX Open Dialog Designers license so make sure you can save your
dialog before you spent a lot of time making it!

You can also use Winforms or Java Swing to create your UI if you know how to do
that.  These are not Siemens products so GTAC cannot help you with that.

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