topic Re: How to select an element by C++ code in Archicad C++ API

[SOLVED] How to select an element by C++ code

Anonymous — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 11:29:50 GMT

My goal is to select an element by C++ code.

I have a modal dialog and I have elements GUIDs in current document, I want to select an element on dialog's button click.

Is there a way to do that ?

Thanks in advance!

Re: How to select an element by C++ code

Ralph Wessel — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 14:23:08 GMT

ggiloyan wrote:
My goal is to select an element by C++ code.
Is there a way to do that ?

Yes, take a look at ACAPI_Element_Select.

Re: How to select an element by C++ code

Anonymous — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 05:28:41 GMT

Thank you for the help! It works fine!

Re: How to select an element by C++ code

Tibor Lorantfy — Fri, 27 Mar 2015 08:39:19 GMT

To make it clear, ACAPI_Element_Select is working with neig points of elements.
If you have element GUIDs it's not a problem, because you can convert it to neig points the following way:
- with the GUID get the element's header using ACAPI_Element_GetHeader
- use ElemHead_To_Neig function (can be found in APICommon.h in example AddOns) to convert the elemhead to neig