topic Re: Looking for API function definition in Archicad C++ API

Looking for API function definition

Anonymous — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 11:30:35 GMT

Hi guys,

How can I find, if possible, the definition of ACAPI_Property_CreatePropertyDefinition? I modified Element_Test example to have a menu command to open a text file and import the settings but I got a crash in this function

Re: Looking for API function definition

Tibor Lorantfy — Thu, 08 Nov 2018 14:32:46 GMT

Hi,

Could you show me please the definition of your PropertyTestHelpers::CreateProperty function?
I think a little mistake in that function causes the crash.

The definitions of ACAPI functions are inside ARCHICAD, so they are not public.

Regards,
Tibor

Re: Looking for API function definition

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Nov 2018 14:37:34 GMT

Here it is, and is working on Mac:

API_PropertyDefinition PropertyTestHelpers::CreateProperty (API_PropertyGroup group, const char * name)
{
API_PropertyDefinition definition;
definition.guid = APINULLGuid;
definition.groupGuid = group.guid;

GS::UniString uniName (name, CC_UTF8);
definition.name = uniName;

definition.description = "Custom property set by ArchiCADImporter";
definition.collectionType = API_PropertySingleCollectionType;
definition.valueType = API_PropertyStringValueType;
definition.defaultValue.singleVariant.variant.type = definition.valueType;
return definition;
}

Re: Looking for API function definition

Tibor Lorantfy — Thu, 08 Nov 2018 17:22:21 GMT

n.mihaylov wrote:
GS::UniString uniName (name, CC_UTF8);
definition.name = uniName;

Are you sure that the "name" string has UTF8 encoding?
Could you replace these two lines with the following one line and retry it please?

definition.name = name;

Re: Looking for API function definition

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Nov 2018 07:46:03 GMT

Thanks but no luck, the same crash
There is "something" different here between Win and Mac (it's working on Mac) and now I'll try to investigate.

Re: Looking for API function definition

dfintha — Wed, 05 Dec 2018 09:02:37 GMT

Hello,

Could you please provide some example strings, that are used as names for the Property Definitions?
I could not reproduce the same issue yet.

Best regards,
Dénes

Re: Looking for API function definition

Anonymous — Thu, 07 Feb 2019 07:09:37 GMT

Hi,

I fixed the problem several lines further, where I was setting the availability, although the addon crashed "here".