topic Re: How to hide parameters in Libraries & objects

How to hide parameters

Anonymous — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 10:37:55 GMT

Hey i am searching for a way to hide parameters. This is because i want to disable parameters if another parameter is on
can someone help
thx a lot

Re: How to hide parameters

Anonymous — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 10:57:24 GMT

Hi,
You have to go to parameter script and use:

hideparameter "parameter_name"

You can also lock parameters, give them possible values.......

Re: How to hide parameters

Erich — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 16:46:33 GMT

IF you want it dependent on another parameter then you want the following:

IF parameter1 THEN HIDEPARAMETER 'parameter2'

This says that if parameter1 is turned on, parameter2 is to be hidden. For this to work, parameter1 must be a boolean value.

Re: How to hide parameters

Anonymous — Sun, 18 Jan 2015 11:13:03 GMT

Thx but i am using a text code. I am making a desk and you can choose if you want a door or drawers in the desk. But if you choose door then all the parameters which include drawers must be disabled

Re: How to hide parameters

Anonymous — Sun, 18 Jan 2015 11:16:46 GMT

also is there a possibility to limit material parameters

Re: How to hide parameters

David Maudlin — Sun, 18 Jan 2015 13:57:13 GMT

jensvs:

You will want to use an If-Then command, for example:

If Door_Type="None" Then HideParameter "Door_Mat", "Trim_Mat"

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David

Re: How to hide parameters

Anonymous — Sun, 18 Jan 2015 16:58:28 GMT

I have the parameters
Type_of_Desk choose between "Door" "Drawers"
But i have also a parameter Number_of_Drawer and Material_Drawers
and those parameters must be disabled when you choose "Door"

Can you please send me a script or something

I tried this in the parameter script
IF "Type_of_Desk" = "Door" THEN
HIDEPARAMETER "Number_of_Drawers"
HIDEPARAMETER "Material_Drawer"
ENDIF

Re: How to hide parameters

Dave Seabury — Sun, 18 Jan 2015 18:03:44 GMT

Jensvs

You jumped over Erich's Comment.....

This says that if parameter1 is turned on, parameter2 is to be hidden. For this to work, parameter1 must be a boolean value.

For your desk you need to create a Boolean value for the doors and or drawers. If the only two options are drawers or doors then try something like this (assuming you are using a VALUES script in the master script)

Parameters

desk_type Abc
desk_drawers Boolean
desk_doors Boolean

Master Script

dt_1 = "Doors"
dt_2 = "Drawers"

VALUES "desk_type" "Doors", "Drawers"

Parameters Script

IF desk_type = dt_1 THEN
PARAMETERS desk_doors = 1
PARAMETERS desk_drawers = 0
ENDIF

IF desk_type = dt_2 THEN
PARAMETERS desk_doors = 0
PARAMETERS desk_drawers = 1
ENDIF

Then you set up what parameters you want hidden or showing based on the values of desk_door and desk_drawers

IF desk_drawer = 1 THEN
HIDEPARAMETERS .................
ENDIF

Hope that helps.

David

Re: How to hide parameters

Erich — Sun, 18 Jan 2015 21:18:58 GMT

jensvs wrote:
I tried this in the parameter script
IF "Type_of_Desk" = "Door" THEN
HIDEPARAMETER "Number_of_Drawers"
HIDEPARAMETER "Material_Drawer"
ENDIF

Given that your parameters are text (i.e. door or drawers) and not boolean, then what you show is fine, other than you have quotes around Type_of_Desk in your code.

You can even simplify this as follows:

IF Type_of_Desk = 'Door' THEN
  HIDEPARAMETER 'Number_of_Drawers', 'Material_Drawer'
ENDIF

Re: How to hide parameters

Barry Kelly — Mon, 19 Jan 2015 03:02:12 GMT

Also note you wont see the parameters "hide' while you are editing the script.
The parameter list will remain unchanged - you can't tell what is hidden or not until you save the object and use it in Archicad.

A little trick I do though is to also 'LOCK' the parameters.
This you can see while you are editing the script - the locked parameters will turn grey in the parameter list.

IF Type_of_Desk = 'Door' THEN 
   LOCK 'Number_of_Drawers', 'Material_Drawer' 
   HIDEPARAMETER 'Number_of_Drawers', 'Material_Drawer' 
ENDIF

Barry.

Re: How to hide parameters

Anonymous — Tue, 20 Jan 2015 10:29:37 GMT

Dave wrote:
Jensvs

You jumped over Erich's Comment.....

This says that if parameter1 is turned on, parameter2 is to be hidden. For this to work, parameter1 must be a boolean value.

For your desk you need to create a Boolean value for the doors and or drawers. If the only two options are drawers or doors then try something like this (assuming you are using a VALUES script in the master script)

Parameters

desk_type Abc
desk_drawers Boolean
desk_doors Boolean

Master Script

dt_1 = "Doors"
dt_2 = "Drawers"

VALUES "desk_type" "Doors", "Drawers"

Parameters Script

IF desk_type = dt_1 THEN
PARAMETERS desk_doors = 1
PARAMETERS desk_drawers = 0
ENDIF

IF desk_type = dt_2 THEN
PARAMETERS desk_doors = 0
PARAMETERS desk_drawers = 1
ENDIF

Then you set up what parameters you want hidden or showing based on the values of desk_door and desk_drawers

IF desk_drawer = 1 THEN
HIDEPARAMETERS .................
ENDIF

Hope that helps.

David

Thx David
I have done what you said

But i have this code

IF Type_Drawer_Left = "Drawers" THEN
MATERIAL Material_Drawers_Left
IF Number_of_Drawers_Left = "1" THEN
BLOCK Width_Desk_Left, .015, Height_Desk-.105
ADDX (Width_Desk_Left/2)-.02
ADDZ .05
ROTX 90
MATERIAL Material_Handle
CYLIND .01, .004
ADDZ .01
ELBOW .02, 180, .004
DEL 1
ADDX .04
CYLIND .01, .004
ENDIF

and in the place of "Drawers" must be a number and i dont know what number

Re: How to hide parameters

David Maudlin — Tue, 20 Jan 2015 13:27:05 GMT

Jens:

The code you posted should work, except you need another EndIf command as you have 2 If statements.

If you zip the object and attach it to your post, others will be able to look at the code without needing to guess at the parameters and other aspects of the object.

Thanks for adding the signature.

David