BrowserPanes Object
Description
The BrowserPanes object provides access to the existing objects of the browser and allows you to create additional panes. See the article in the overviews section.
Methods
| Add |
Method that creates and returns a new BrowserPane object. The BrowserPane created is one that is explicitly used to house ActiveX controls. |
| AddByManifest |
Method that creates and returns a new BrowserPane object. The BrowserPane created is one that is explicitly used to house un-registered ActiveX Controls. |
| AddTreeBrowserPane |
Method that creates and returns a new BrowserPane object. The BrowserPane created is one in which Inventor's BrowserTreeNodes can be instanced to generate a completely customizable tree view. |
| CreateBrowserNodeDefinition |
Method that creates a new The definition object can then be further used to construct ClientBrowserNodes that make up the tree in a custom tree-browser pane. The new ClientBrowserNodeDefinition is returned. Note that this node definition object is constructed and has an identity within the 'name space' or context of the entire owning document. |
| GetClientBrowserNodeDefinition |
Method that returns the specified ClientBrowserNodeDefinition. |
| GetNativeBrowserNodeDefinition |
Method to obtain the NativeBrowserNodeDefinition object corresponding to a data model object.Also see CreateNativeBrowserNodeDefinition for information on creating a new client browser node definition. |
| GetNativeBrowserNodeDefinitionWithOptions |
Method that returns the NativeBrowserNodeDefinition that corresponds to the input object. |
Properties
| ActivePane |
Property that returns the that is currently being displayed. |
| Application |
Returns the top-level parent application object. When used the context of Inventor, an Application object is returned. When used in the context of Apprentice, an ApprenticeServer object is returned. |
| BrowserPanesEvents |
Property that returns the events sink object for the BrowserPanes object. |
| ClientNodeResources |
Property that returns the collection of ClientNodeResource objects. A ClientNodeResource holds the icons necessary to define the open, closed and status images for all of the ClientBrowserNodes associated with this document. The ClientNodeResources collection has a method that allows you to add a new set of images that can then be used to create a new ClientBrowserNodeDefinition. |
| Count |
Property that returns the number of browser panes in the collection. |
| Item |
Returns the specified object from the collection. |
| Type |
Returns an ObjectTypeEnum indicating this object's type. |
Accessed From
AssemblyDocument.BrowserPanes,
Document.BrowserPanes,
DrawingDocument.BrowserPanes,
PartDocument.BrowserPanes,
PresentationDocument.BrowserPanes
Samples
| Add assembly occurrences to a new folder |
Demonstrates assembly occurrences to a new folder |
| Demote occurence |
This sample demonstrates how to demote a top level occurrence in an assembly into a new sub-assembly occurrence. |
| Navigation between browser and data |
This sample demonstrates the navigation between a browser node and it's corresponding data model object and vice versa. This sample creates a work plane, finds its browser node and gets the work plane object back from the browser node. |
Version
Introduced in version 5
