topic Re: Copy the GUID/s of the current selection(single or multiple objects) to Clipboard in Archicad C++ API

Copy the GUID/s of the current selection(single or multiple objects) to Clipboard

SajW — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 11:27:39 GMT

Can someone help me to write the code to Copy the GUID/s of the current selection(single or multiple objects) to Clipboard.

So far I have used the Database_Control Example without any success.

Re: Copy the GUID/s of the current selection(single or multiple objects) to Clipboard

Tibor Lorantfy — Sun, 19 Sep 2021 13:01:55 GMT

#include "ClipBoard.hpp" static GS::Array<API_Guid> GetSelectedElements () { GSErrCode err; API_SelectionInfo selectionInfo; API_Neig **selNeigs; err = ACAPI_Selection_Get (&selectionInfo, &selNeigs, false); BMKillHandle ((GSHandle *)&selectionInfo.marquee.coords); if (err != NoError || selectionInfo.typeID == API_SelEmpty) { BMKillHandle ((GSHandle *)&selNeigs); return GS::Array<API_Guid>(); } const UInt32 nSel = BMGetHandleSize ((GSHandle)selNeigs) / sizeof (API_Neig); GS::Array<API_Guid> guidArray; for (UInt32 i = 0; i < nSel; ++i) { guidArray.Push ((*selNeigs).guid); } BMKillHandle ((GSHandle *)&selNeigs); return guidArray; } static void CopyGUIDsOfCurrentSelectionToClipboard () { GS::UniString string; const GS::Array<API_Guid> guidsOfCurrentSelection = GetSelectedElements (); for (UIndex ii = 0; ii < guidsOfCurrentSelection.GetSize (); ++ii) { string += APIGuidToString (guidsOfCurrentSelection[ii]) + '\n'; } Clipboard::GetInstance ().SetUniString (Clipboard::uniTextTypeId, string); }

Simply call CopyGUIDsOfCurrentSelectionToClipboard function to use.
You're welcome

UPDATE: I modified the code, now it's platform independent, works both on Windows and macOS platforms.

Re: Copy the GUID/s of the current selection(single or multiple objects) to Clipboard

SajW — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 04:17:38 GMT

Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State
Error (active) E1696 cannot open source file "ClipBoard.hpp"

Cannot solve the error associated with the #Include. Do you have any suggestion?

Re: Copy the GUID/s of the current selection(single or multiple objects) to Clipboard

Tibor Lorantfy — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 06:42:32 GMT

You're right, sorry, ClipBoard.hpp is not part of the public API Development Kit.

Which version of ARCHICAD are you using?

If you use ARCHICAD 22, then feel free to copy ClipBoard.hpp from this zip file into the Support\Modules\GSUtils folder inside the Development Kit.

Re: Copy the GUID/s of the current selection(single or multiple objects) to Clipboard

SajW — Sun, 19 Sep 2021 12:59:26 GMT

static void CopyGUIDsOfCurrentSelectionToClipboard() { GS::UniString string; const GS::Array<API_Guid> guidsOfCurrentSelection = GetSelectedElements(); for (UIndex ii = 0; ii < guidsOfCurrentSelection.GetSize(); ++ii) { string += APIGuidToString(guidsOfCurrentSelection[ii]) + '\n'; } Clipboard::GetInstance().Empty(); Clipboard::GetInstance().SetUniString(Clipboard::uniTextTypeId, string); }

It works.
I had to call Empty() as well.

Re: Copy the GUID/s of the current selection(single or multiple objects) to Clipboard

SajW — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 12:02:37 GMT

Re: Copy the GUID/s of the current selection(single or multiple objects) to Clipboard

Tibor Lorantfy — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 16:05:59 GMT

Hi Guys,

Let me inform you that clipboard handling is supported by C++ API from version 25.

The DGClipboard.hpp is part of the development kit (Support\Modules\DGLib). Using the DG::Clipboard singleton instance you can get or set the content of the clipboard easily.

Please note that the code I previously posted at this topic is outdated (worked for previous versions).

Here is the updated example code:

#include "APIEnvir.h" #include "ACAPinc.h" #include "APICommon.h" #include "DGClipboard.hpp" static GS::Array<API_Guid> GetSelectedElements () { API_SelectionInfo selectionInfo = {}; GS::Array<API_Neig> selNeigs; ACAPI_Selection_Get (&selectionInfo, &selNeigs, false); BMKillHandle ((GSHandle*)&selectionInfo.marquee.coords); return selNeigs.Transform<API_Guid> ([](const API_Neig& neig) { return neig.guid; }); } static void CopyGUIDsOfSelectedElementsToClipboard () { GS::UniString string; const GS::Array<API_Guid> guidsOfCurrentSelection = GetSelectedElements (); for (const API_Guid& guid : guidsOfCurrentSelection) { string += APIGuidToString (guid) + '\n'; } DG::Clipboard::GetInstance ().Clear (); DG::Clipboard::GetInstance ().SetUniString (DG::Clipboard::uniTextTypeId, string); } static GSErrCode SelectElementsFromClipboard () { GS::UniString clipboardString; DG::Clipboard::GetInstance ().GetUniString (DG::Clipboard::uniTextTypeId, clipboardString); GS::Array<GS::UniString> guidStrings; clipboardString.Split ("\n", GS::UniString::SkipEmptyParts, &guidStrings); const USize count = guidStrings.GetSize (); GS::Array<API_Neig> neigs = guidStrings.Transform<API_Neig> ([] (const GS::UniString & string) { return API_Neig (APIGuidFromString (string.ToCStr ().Get ())); }); return ACAPI_Element_Select (neigs, true); }