topic Getting all doors and properties in Archicad C++ API

Getting all doors and properties

noriksaroyan — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 07:36:17 GMT

Hey everyone!

I need to get all doors from active archicad project and all their properties such as height, width, material etc.) and I have a question.

I've read the documentation and I wanted to know if I'm thinking the right way:

it seems that I need to do certain steps.

1. get all ids using something like this:

static GS::Array<API_Guid> GetAllDoorIds(){ GS::Array<API_Guid> doorGuids; GSErrCode err = ACAPI_Element_GetElemList(API_DoorID,&doorGuids); if (err != NoError){ return ; } return doorGuids; }

2. I need to get all ids of properties.

3. I have to iterate on every element .

If the steps I described above are somehow right, I would kindly ask for someone to assist with what are the names of these functions, because I've been searching for them in api-reference and, unfortunately, I couldn't find them.

Re: Getting all doors and properties

ReignBough — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 03:32:58 GMT

ACAPI_Goodies
- APIAny_OpenParametersID - starts a parameter operation
- APIAny_GetActParametersID - gets the parameters of an instance/actual element
- APIAny_CloseParametersID - ends a parameter operation

I put any code between open and close parameter inside a "{}" to mark the scope of this operation.

I also advise you to create a wrapper function that will convert the output of APIAny_GetActParemeters into a std::map or GS::HashTable (or any key-val) where key is the parameter name (API_GetParamsType->API_AddParType->name) and value is API_GetParamsType->API_AddParType. This is to make the parameter/s you need easier to find.

Re: Getting all doors and properties

noriksaroyan — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 13:35:44 GMT

I need to store them in json file, so I guess it won't be necessary to wrap it, probably would just store raw data into the json. Thanks for info!