Creating Shelves and Buttons via scripting

[Loki]

Hi all

I'm trying to find a way to create a custom Shelf and Buttons via script (I'm using Python)
I looked at the SDK help and here around and in other blogs/forums...but I found only something about CreateToolbar (not Shelf!!!) and CreateToolbarButton commands, but them seems to be not so useful for what I want to do.

My idea is to create a script that build a custom Shelf only if it doesn't exists and then add a bitmap button on it.

The CreateToolbar command adds a toolbar only (and not Shelves as I want) in the User toolbar folder (should be perfect if I can choose the Workgroup toolbar folder) and the CreateToolbarButton command doesn't permit to sets bitmaps for the button appearance.
Next, after creating this Toolbar and Buttons, I'm not able to add more buttons on it, due to the GUID added as suffix to the toolbar filename.


Someone can help me, please?

Thanks,
Loki

[csaez]

I'm not sure there's SDK to work with shelfs but you can parse the file by yourself, it's a simple text file (xml structure)

[Loki]

Hi csaez and thanks for your reply!
You're right! The next day I opened (by mistake!) a toolbar with the Script Editor and saw that it's a simple XML code. I didn't know it!
This made my code a little more complex, especially to modify an existing toolbar instead of create it... But seems to work

Thanks again,
Loki