topic Re: ACAPI_Element_UnLink issues in Archicad C++ API

ACAPI_Element_UnLink issues

Anonymous — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 08:54:49 GMT

After used ACAPI_Element_UnLink to delete all links of an element , the number of the links got by ACAPI_Element_GetLinks is still not zero.
(The links is created and deleted by the same add-on, alos set undo functions )

Re: ACAPI_Element_UnLink issues

Ralph Wessel — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 09:54:42 GMT

wcyoot wrote:
After used ACAPI_Element_UnLink to delete all links of an element , the number of the links got by ACAPI_Element_GetLinks is still not zero.
(The links is created and deleted by the same add-on, alos set undo functions )

Are you first calling ACAPI_Element_GetLinks to retrieve a list of linked elements, and then repeatedly calling ACAPI_Element_UnLink to remove each link? Does ACAPI_Element_UnLink return an error? And are you sure the guid_linkFrom and guid_linkTo parameters are in the right order?

Re: ACAPI_Element_UnLink issues

Anonymous — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 13:04:05 GMT

Ralph wrote:
Are you first calling ACAPI_Element_GetLinks to retrieve a list of linked elements, and then repeatedly calling ACAPI_Element_UnLink to remove each link? Does ACAPI_Element_UnLink return an error? And are you sure the guid_linkFrom and guid_linkTo parameters are in the right order?

Yes, I am first calling ACAPI_Element_GetLinks, and then calling ACAPI_Element_UnLink one by one, and sure ACAPI_Element_UnLink returns no error, and sure parameters are in the right order

Re: ACAPI_Element_UnLink issues

Ralph Wessel — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 17:32:01 GMT

wcyoot wrote:
Yes, I am first calling ACAPI_Element_GetLinks, and then calling ACAPI_Element_UnLink one by one, and sure ACAPI_Element_UnLink returns no error, and sure parameters are in the right order

I'm not sure what else to suggest - this call works for me. Which version of ArchiCAD are you developing for? Can you post some of the essential code that demonstrates this problem?

Re: ACAPI_Element_UnLink issues

Anonymous — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 06:05:41 GMT

Ralph wrote:
I'm not sure what else to suggest - this call works for me. Which version of ArchiCAD are you developing for? Can you post some of the essential code that demonstrates this problem?

AC13.


err = ACAPI_Element_Get (&element);
API_Guid		linkFrom = element.header.guid;
API_Guid**		linkToList = NULL;
err = ACAPI_Element_GetLinks (linkFrom, &linkToList, &nLinks);	
   for (GSIndex index = 0; index < nLinks; index++) {
   err = ACAPI_Element_Unlink (linkFrom, (*linkToList)[index]);
      }
BMKillHandle ((GSHandle *) &linkToList);
Int32 nLinksTemp = 0;
err = ACAPI_Element_GetLinks(linkFrom, NULL, &nLinksTemp);
// There nLinksTemp is not zero

Re: ACAPI_Element_UnLink issues

Ralph Wessel — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 11:37:50 GMT

wcyoot wrote:
AC13.


err = ACAPI_Element_Get (&element);
API_Guid		linkFrom = element.header.guid;
API_Guid**		linkToList = NULL;
err = ACAPI_Element_GetLinks (linkFrom, &linkToList, &nLinks);	
   for (GSIndex index = 0; index < nLinks; index++) {
   err = ACAPI_Element_Unlink (linkFrom, (*linkToList)[index]);
      }
BMKillHandle ((GSHandle *) &linkToList);
Int32 nLinksTemp = 0;
err = ACAPI_Element_GetLinks(linkFrom, NULL, &nLinksTemp);
// There nLinksTemp is not zero

That looks OK to me. Are you doing this within an Undo session, i.e. using ACAPI_OpenUndoableSession?

Re: ACAPI_Element_UnLink issues

Anonymous — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 01:31:21 GMT

Ralph wrote:
That looks OK to me. Are you doing this within an Undo session, i.e. using ACAPI_OpenUndoableSession?

Yes, Of course. I am sure.

Re: ACAPI_Element_UnLink issues

Ralph Wessel — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 08:07:05 GMT

wcyoot wrote:
Ralph wrote:
That looks OK to me. Are you doing this within an Undo session, i.e. using ACAPI_OpenUndoableSession?
Yes, Of course. I am sure.

These functions work for me, so I don't know what else to suggest. I recommend cutting the add-on functionality down to the bare minimum required to test this code. Then you can be sure that the problem isn't caused by some earlier corruption.

Re: ACAPI_Element_UnLink issues

Anonymous — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 02:50:33 GMT

Ralph wrote:
These functions work for me, so I don't know what else to suggest. I recommend cutting the add-on functionality down to the bare minimum required to test this code. Then you can be sure that the problem isn't caused by some earlier corruption.

In my test, there is nothing else to do.

Maybe it is a bug.