topic Re: Zone Labels: read parameters from zones in GDL

Zone Labels: read parameters from zones

Jochen Suehlo — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 11:36:33 GMT

For zone labels the usually used command

REQUEST ("ASSOCLP_PARVALUE", "ROOM_NAME", ...

seems not to work.

What is the corresponding command for zone parameters?

Re: Zone Labels: read parameters from zones

Palawat — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 16:33:53 GMT

You might want to look at the "Built-in Property".
For the Indigo Figs Zone Label, I request "Property_Value_Of_Parent" with a "Built-in Property" using "Builtin.Zone_ZoneName" for "Zone Name".

Re: Zone Labels: read parameters from zones

Jochen Suehlo — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 17:50:12 GMT

Thank You, Palawat.
This is very interesting. I checked your zone stamp from Indigo and in the stamp and MVO object I have seen that the whole parameters section from the zone stamp is there in the Property list.
Questions:
1. does the zone label uses these zone properties and not a direct request to the zone parameters?
2. How did you get those "zone parameters" in the Properties dropdown list?
Is there any example in the Archicad library that I didn't find?

Re: Zone Labels: read parameters from zones

Palawat — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 08:47:10 GMT

Glad I could help.

1. Yes, it does. Since all the ROOM_NAME, ROOM_NUMBER, ... are available only for zone stamp, so the zone label uses built-in zone properties.

2. Not sure if there's an example but I use UI_CUSTOM_POPUP_INFIELD which accepts array variables.

Master script:

dim uiZoneParam[][] uiZoneParam[1][1] = "Zone Name" uiZoneParam[1][2] = "Catagory Name" uiZoneParam[1][3] = "" uiZoneParam[1][4] = "Zone Name" uiZoneParam[2][1] = "Zone Number" uiZoneParam[2][2] = "Catagory Name" uiZoneParam[2][3] = "" uiZoneParam[2][4] = "Zone Number" ...

UI script:

dim parentProperties[] n = REQUEST ("Properties_Of_Parent", "", parentProperties) n = REQUEST("PROPERTY_NAME", name, typeName, groupName, propertyName) ui_custom_popup_infield{2} name, x, y, width, height, 1, 3, 1, propertyName, "None", "", "", "None", uiZoneParam, parentProperties

These are not the actual code. I simplified it a bit but yes, you get the idea. 🙂

Re: Zone Labels: read parameters from zones

Piotr Dobrowolski — Sun, 23 Oct 2022 05:31:28 GMT

BTW. Zone labels biggest drawback (resulting in "not using" in general) is inability to access the zone stamp parameters - GS devs please read 🙂

Re: Zone Labels: read parameters from zones

Peter Baksa — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 08:52:26 GMT

Hi,

please enter/vote a wish about those which aren't available as properties.

Re: Zone Labels: read parameters from zones

Piotr Dobrowolski — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 09:02:52 GMT

Done

Re: Zone Labels: read parameters from zones

Jochen Suehlo — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 09:10:21 GMT

The example objects from Graphisoft are very complicated. The GDL manual is also not very well documented. It therefore took me a while to figure out the simplest version of how to read a room stamp parameter with a label (Thank You Palawat for the hint).

IF _param[i] = "Room Name" THEN _actProperty = "Builtin.Zone_ZoneName" ! Room Name m = request ("Property_Value_Of_Parent", _actProperty, _typeValue, dim1, dim2, _propertyValues) _content_2D[i] = _propertyValues ENDIF