topic Re: ACAPI_WrieReport Format in Archicad C++ API

ACAPI_WrieReport Format

poco2013 — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 14:40:18 GMT

My add on uses a Alert message via the WriteReport function. I want to format the output message using some embedded variables. but the place holder %s does not seem to work for UniStrings. does work for %f & %d.

AS in:

GS:: UniString str = 'something';
ACAPI_WriteReport ( "message is  %s" , true,  str ); // does not work. returns no conversion error.

however, i can use str directly without a conversion if no format place holder is used. Is there a solution or a conversion?

Re: ACAPI_WrieReport Format

leilei — Mon, 18 Feb 2019 06:11:51 GMT

Hi,
I use this:


GS::UniString successexport;
successexport +="hello";
successexport +="world";
ACAPI_WriteReport(successexport,true);

Re: ACAPI_WrieReport Format

Tibor Lorantfy — Mon, 18 Feb 2019 08:40:01 GMT

poco2013 wrote:
Is there a solution or a conversion?

Use the ToCStr method of GS::UniString:

GS::UniString str = "something";
ACAPI_WriteReport ("message is %s", true, str.ToCStr ().Get ());

Re: ACAPI_WrieReport Format

poco2013 — Mon, 18 Feb 2019 14:45:15 GMT

Thanks all and thanks Tibor -- I was missing the get() part of ToCstr()