topic Re: Disable Label Pointer/Arrow in GDL

Disable Label Pointer/Arrow

Jochen Suehlo — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 11:03:18 GMT

I want to disable the pointer/arrow in cases that the label shall be invisible (MVO driven).
Is there a command to disable the pointer?

Re: Disable Label Pointer/Arrow

Lee Hankins — Fri, 03 May 2024 22:04:20 GMT

Does this help?

modelViewOptions:
myModelViewOption:
label:
Hide: true

This code will hide the label pointer as part of the myModelViewOption. Make sure to adjust the names according to your actual model and view option names.

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Jochen Suehlo — Mon, 06 May 2024 08:04:57 GMT

Thank You Lee. Could you please describe the procedure in more detail, as I didn't quite understand it.

Re: Disable Label Pointer/Arrow

Lee Hankins — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 08:26:24 GMT

Hi Jochen,

Sorry I hadn't seen this reply. I'll be honest, I got that code from a search online. I'm not sure how to fully implement it and hoped you may know where to insert this in to the rest of the associated code and that it may assist. Have you tried reaching out to Graphisoft support, they may be able to help further?

Re: Disable Label Pointer/Arrow

Piotr Dobrowolski — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 12:29:08 GMT

There is a label parameter:
LABEL_HAS_POINTER

the bottom of Label Parameters | GRAPHISOFT GDL Center

it may have to be added to Your label...and then hooked to the library global call (probably in master script)

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Jochen Suehlo — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 13:51:00 GMT

Thank You Piotr, but LABEL_HAS_POINTER is a Global Variable and cannot be overwritten.
I can turn the pointer on and off in the labels settings, and this effects the Value of LABEL_HAS_POINTER,

but only in this direction.
What I want, is to deactivate the Pointer in cases that the label is empty. I do not want to see a pointer when there is no text inside the label, but I want to see the pointer when there is text inside the label. (If text is shown or not is driven by MVO).

Re: Disable Label Pointer/Arrow

Piotr Dobrowolski — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 18:01:55 GMT

I did not test it, but I did the same with a lot of such parameters (mainly for doors& windows)... argh... so it is so deeply hardcoded 😞

it intrigues me...I will test my previous findings with such parameters.

Re: Disable Label Pointer/Arrow

Barry Kelly — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 01:44:01 GMT

I think you will find that label objects do not actually draw the leader.

That is done by the label tool and the label object simply uses the values of the leader co-ordinates to position the text if there is a leader.

If the leader is turned off, then you just get the label text at the object origin.

As Jochen said, I don't think there is any way to turn the leader on/of from the label object.

That is controlled from the tool only.

Barry.