CustomEventArgs.additionalInfo Property

Parent Object: CustomEventArgs
Defined in namespace "adsk::core" and the header file is <Core/Application/CustomEventArgs.h>

Description

Information being passed to the add-in in the primary thread from the worker thread or other add-in.

"customEventArgs_var" is a variable referencing a CustomEventArgs object.

# Get the value of the property.
propertyValue = customEventArgs_var.additionalInfo

"customEventArgs_var" is a variable referencing a CustomEventArgs object.

#include <Core/Application/CustomEventArgs.h>

// Get the value of the property.
string propertyValue = customEventArgs_var->additionalInfo();

This is a read only property whose value is a string.

Name	Description
Custom Event for Command Dialog	Demonstrates using a custom event to process getting information in the background to display in a command dialog. This is an add-in and should be copied and pasted into an add-in project.
Custom Event Sample	Demonstrates the ability to call into the main thread from a worker thread. This sample is an add-in. To use it, use the Scripts and Add-Ins command to create a new add-in. Delete all of the code in the newly created add-in and replace it with the code below. Have a model open that has a parameter named "Length". Load the add-in. The add-in will change the value of the parameter every two seconds using a random value between 1 and 10.

Introduced in version January 2017