ApplicationFormBase

Tekla Open API applications that want to make full use of ApplicationFormBase should inherit from it. However, this is not needed when only making use of some of its features.

Applications that inherit from ApplicationFormBase must call InitializeForm() method. Call it after the InitializeComponent() method of the Form as follows:

using Tekla.Structures.Dialog; 
 
public class MainForm : ApplicationFormBase 
{     
    MainForm()     
    {  
        InitializeComponent();         
        InitializeForm();     
    }
}

The following code example shows one way to initialize an application making use of a local .XML file holding the translated strings.

using Tekla.Structures.Dialog; 
using Tekla.Structures.Datatype; 
 
public class MainForm : ApplicationFormBase 
{     
    MainForm()     
    {         
        InitializeForm();
        if(GetConnectionStatus())         
        {             
            string messageFolder = null; 
            Model.GetAdvancedOption("XS_MESSAGES", ref messageFolder); 
            messageFolder = Path.Combine(messageFolder, @"DotAppsStrings"); 
            Dialogs.SetSettings(string.Empty); 
            Localization.Language = (string) Settings.GetValue("language"); 
            Localization.LoadFile(Path.Combine(messageFolder, Application.ProductName + ".xml")); 
            Localization.Localize(this);         
        }         
        else         
        {             
            MessageBox.Show("Tekla Structures is NOT running...");        
        }     
    } 
}