Looking for a way to handle a user clicking (x) to close a sidebar extension

[johnpierson]

Dynamo version

Dynamo 2.6.1

Operating system

Windows 10

What did you do?

Trying to implement a handler that unchecks a menu item when a sidebar view extension is closed. Kind of like this,

Dynamo/src/WorkspaceDependencyViewExtension/WorkspaceDependencyView.xaml.cs

Line 180 in fd18ceb

DynamoView.CloseExtension += this.OnExtensionTabClosedHandler;

What did you expect to see?

The ability to subscribe to its closing event to uncheck it.

What did you see instead?

It is internal. 🤦

Dynamo/src/DynamoCoreWpf/Views/Core/DynamoView.xaml.cs

Line 80 in 0a72ece

internal static event Action<String> CloseExtension;

[QilongTang]

@johnpierson I know this is going to come up at some time :) I still need to confirm with @Amoursol that we would like to encourage 3rd party extensions to be able to add Dynamo menu items. If that is the case, we can expose this event to unblock you.

[johnpierson]

😁

Funny enough this is for thesaurus.

[mmisol]

Hi @johnpierson . Just chiming in to say that thesaurus looks very intriguing. Is that some sort ML driven tool to suggest nodes related to the ones you add?

[Amoursol]

@mmisol - @QilongTang worked on this! Feel free to reach out internally 😄

[Amoursol]

Hi @johnpierson!

Are you looking to simply have a tick removed from a menu item when that same extension is closed in the sidebar panel? If so, I'm 💯 on board with opening that up @QilongTang.

[johnpierson]

That’s the goal! 🙂

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[QilongTang]

@Amoursol This should be small effort given just making the event public. Do you want to make it available in Dynamo 2.8 given it will probably gain popularity?

[Amoursol]

@QilongTang if you have time to squeeze this in, then yes please.

[johnpierson]

I actually think I can work around this using OnUnloaded on the user control.

Here is how I am handling it in SimpleSearch right now,

 // establish the simple search view (user control)
            SimpleSearch.SimpleSearch ss = new SimpleSearch.SimpleSearch(p);
            ss.Unloaded += SsOnUnloaded;

private void SsOnUnloaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
        {
            this._simpleSearchMenuItem.IsChecked = false;
        }

[Amoursol]

Glad to hear it @johnpierson !