topic Re: scripting autotext in Libraries & objects

scripting autotext

Anonymous — Fri, 01 Aug 2014 20:41:02 GMT

We're in the process of making a part to then create schedules for room finishes etc. (we don't use zones so it may be in there somehow) We've found a way to call in the "Custom 1" from project info, but any new custom auto texts that we create do not work in the scripting. Basically the intent of this part is to have 'paint type 1' and the custom auto text can have the spec and only need to be changed one time.

Thanks for any help.

Re: scripting autotext

Laszlo Nagy — Sat, 02 Aug 2014 15:42:37 GMT

I don't think that Project Info field were ever intended for such a purpose. Those are Project level data which are usually displayed on Layouts. You want to display room-specific information in schedules.

In GDL you can read from and write to TXT (and I think also XML) files. Maybe you should store those value in such a file and all your object would read from there. So then you would only need to change it in the file and update the objects to read the new value. I think this could work.

Re: scripting autotext

Erwin Edel — Mon, 04 Aug 2014 14:30:40 GMT

If you create a new library part and drag a text element with the autotext inside it into the 2d script, you will get a funky autotext value such as

<autotext-B4A088D7-5B40-4D6D-BCFD-2D7F726D37E1>

this will work. Beyond the first 3 custom text entries the numbering seems a bit different.

However, if it is just a finish from a predefined set of values, you might just want to consider using the parameter script to define a range of values that you could pick from the object parameter dialog and use in schedules.

For example:

values "paintfinish" 		"white","blue","red"

For your created custom parameter called paintfinish you will now have a pulldown list of white, blue and red. Make sure the parameter is of the "text" type.

And yes, I'm sure this could also be scripted into a zone stamp.

Re: scripting autotext

Nader Belal — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 01:58:57 GMT

@Erwin

Thank you