Add menu item in .exe-File

Is there any way, that i can add a menu item in the .exe-File?
I need a menu which is expandable for the customer!
thanks wiesi

Wiesi,
I thought this was an interesting question, because I noticed a number of people with previous questions who had serious difficulty with .rtm files and executables, and they weren't even trying to add or remove menu items dynamically. Are you using .rtm files to define your custom menus both in the development envuronment and in the EXE?
If so, I think I agree with Dennis and suggest that you abandon that approach and just build your menu programmatically, as shown in the example he points out. That way, you can create an arbitrary menu each time the VI or EXE is run. One wrinkle is that you now have to create some extra logic for constructing, saving, and loading your run-time menus. I put together an example (attached, LV 7.0) that demonstrates one way to go about it. I tested both in the development environment and after creating an EXE, and it works fine.
I'm interested in something else: how do you plan to make your EXE flexible enough to actually respond correctly to newly-introduced menu items? I guess you'll have to take some kind of a "plug-in" approach, where the anticipated menu choices will lead to the execution of additional code that you are packaging alongside the executable?
Regards,
John
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So a "cmd" with admin. right was opened,
a
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v8.1A\bin\NETFX 4.5.1 Tools\sn.exe" -k "C:\Users\<username>\Documents\Visual Studio 2013\Projects\GWSaveToDatabase\GWSaveToDatabase.sn k"
fired
and the created "GWSaveToDatabase.snk" file added to the solution.
I don't want to be picky, but it's gacutil that needs the strong names. ragasm is not complaining
Originally Posted by Username951
(Development) Remarks
1.) While I used the "C3PO" wizard first time I used "Add Menu" item - as you said in your tutorial! :-(
And that is definitely wrong!
See:
The result was a C# project that does not show any new context menu entry.
So I tried at the next wizard run "Add Menu Item".
The wizard created again a C# project but still no new context menu entry in the GroupWise client.
(And that after all needed steps
like
copy to GroupWise installation path,
regasm and gacutil over all .dlls
etc.
were successful be made).
It took a complete day to get the idea to "merge" the two wizard created projects!
Why merging?
Because the second project contained a "const" which were used in the switch statement of the "Execute()" method
(with the same meaning like your "WIASSArchivButton.vWIASS" - see your code snippet above!)
and the "CustomizeContextMenu(...)" method in "CommandFactory.cs" looked also different
while the first project does not contained something similar.
( For example:
The "CustomizeContextMenu(...)" method had more statements.
And that made more sense to me compared to the first wizeard created C# project.
Since I uploaded a better example this is obsolete.
Originally Posted by Username951
So I ASSUME that the second project would work but it does not because of regasm / gacutil behaviour.
Means I believe it would work when all
with regasm registered
and
with gacutil to the cache added "things"
would be "un-registerd" and "un-cached".
This is, as I assume, due to the Interop.C3POTypeLibrary.dll. This must me cached every time the project is build. maybe you could use gacutil -i Interop.C3POTypeLibrary.dll -f to force the recaching
Originally Posted by Username951
So, finally I took the second, wizard created C# project and copied the "const", adjusted the "Execute()"
and "CustomizeContextMenu(...)" methods, etc.
After that the context menu were shown in the GroupWise client!
Thats is correct. But I never had to do this. The thing is, that the "Add Menu Item" is giving you the opputunity to specify a command, which the "Add Menu" doesn't.
Originally Posted by Username951
2.) The next issue was that the context menu was added as often as many emails were selected.
Means: For example: Three selected emails ends up in three time added context menu.
Solution:
Checking
var existsAlready = menuItems.Item("...");
if (existsAlready != null)
return;
in "CustomizeContextMenu(...)" method and leaving the method under shown circumstances.
I added a fix for this in the second post, but it isn't working in GW2012 anymore. I have a very ubly fix for that in my new code.
Originally Posted by Username951
3.) The by the wizard created registry path contained the version number "5.0".
This may confuse but it is finally ok. No need to change here anything!
On the other side:
It will NOT work when the registry entry
"SOFTWARE\\Novell\\GroupWise\\5.0\\C3PO\\DataTypes \\...."
will be changed/"adjusted to that GroupWise client version you are currently using"!
This is all part of the official documentation and wasn't touched by Novell since quite a long time.
I think i will make a github repository in the futer as a proof of concept and kind of a accessable documentation for everyone.

Add menu item in .exe-File

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