https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Libraries-objects/Testing-to-Relative-coordinates-in-GDL/m-p/160872#M20474 <DIV class="actalk-migrated-content"><T>How can I test the rotation of a 2D symbol I've scripted against the rotated screen orientation, as opposed to the original rotation? <BR /> <BR /> I can't find anything in the GDL reference about rotated orientation.</T></DIV> Mon, 21 Jun 2010 01:43:49 GMT Bruce 2010-06-21T01:43:49Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Libraries-objects/Testing-to-Relative-coordinates-in-GDL/m-p/160872#M20474 <DIV class="actalk-migrated-content"><T>How can I test the rotation of a 2D symbol I've scripted against the rotated screen orientation, as opposed to the original rotation? <BR /> <BR /> I can't find anything in the GDL reference about rotated orientation.</T></DIV> Mon, 21 Jun 2010 01:43:49 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Libraries-objects/Testing-to-Relative-coordinates-in-GDL/m-p/160872#M20474 Bruce 2010-06-21T01:43:49Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Libraries-objects/Testing-to-Relative-coordinates-in-GDL/m-p/160873#M20475 Use the TEXT2 GDL command in the 2D Script to display the SYMB_ROTANGLE global variable.<BR /> I suspect the orientation change will have no effect on the value returned by this variable but you should try to make sure.<BR /> <PRE>TEXT2 0,0,SYMB_ROTANGLE</PRE> Edit: You may want to check out this post, Frank Breister mentions a bug related to exactly this GDL global variable.<BR /> <BR /> <A href="http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=32721" target="_blank"><LINK_TEXT text="http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/vie ... hp?t=32721">http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=32721</LINK_TEXT></A> Mon, 21 Jun 2010 18:09:13 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Libraries-objects/Testing-to-Relative-coordinates-in-GDL/m-p/160873#M20475 Laszlo Nagy 2010-06-21T18:09:13Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Libraries-objects/Testing-to-Relative-coordinates-in-GDL/m-p/160874#M20476 Yeah - this gives the rotation angle based on the default orientation. Ta anyway Mon, 21 Jun 2010 23:22:55 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Libraries-objects/Testing-to-Relative-coordinates-in-GDL/m-p/160874#M20476 Bruce 2010-06-21T23:22:55Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Libraries-objects/Testing-to-Relative-coordinates-in-GDL/m-p/160875#M20477 Ah, you want to do something that is always horizontal regardless of the orientation rotation? Tue, 22 Jun 2010 08:50:25 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Libraries-objects/Testing-to-Relative-coordinates-in-GDL/m-p/160875#M20477 Laszlo Nagy 2010-06-22T08:50:25Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Libraries-objects/Testing-to-Relative-coordinates-in-GDL/m-p/160876#M20478 Yeah, something like that. Tue, 22 Jun 2010 19:51:20 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Libraries-objects/Testing-to-Relative-coordinates-in-GDL/m-p/160876#M20478 Bruce 2010-06-22T19:51:20Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Libraries-objects/Testing-to-Relative-coordinates-in-GDL/m-p/160877#M20479 I see.<BR /> I checked the GDL Docs for both AC13 and 14 and there does not seem to be such a GDL variable:<BR /> <BR /> <A href="http://download.graphisoft.com/ftp/techsupport/documentation/developer_docs/BasicLibraryDoc/14/" target="_blank"><LINK_TEXT text="http://download.graphisoft.com/ftp/tech ... aryDoc/14/">http://download.graphisoft.com/ftp/techsupport/documentation/developer_docs/BasicLibraryDoc/14/</LINK_TEXT></A><BR /> <BR /> You may want to create a wish for that. Tue, 22 Jun 2010 21:49:30 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Libraries-objects/Testing-to-Relative-coordinates-in-GDL/m-p/160877#M20479 Laszlo Nagy 2010-06-22T21:49:30Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Libraries-objects/Testing-to-Relative-coordinates-in-GDL/m-p/160878#M20480 Aha! Found it.<BR /> <BR /> Page 297 of the v13 GDL reference guide:<BR /> <BR /> REQUEST ("view_rotangle", "", angleViewRotation)<BR /> <BR /> Returns the rotation angle of the current view.<BR /> <BR /> Cool Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:08:43 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Libraries-objects/Testing-to-Relative-coordinates-in-GDL/m-p/160878#M20480 Bruce 2010-06-22T22:08:43Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Libraries-objects/Testing-to-Relative-coordinates-in-GDL/m-p/160879#M20481 Oh, that's good you found it.<BR /> I thought it should be a Global variable, I didn't think that it could also be obtained by a REQUEST function as well. Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:09:41 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Libraries-objects/Testing-to-Relative-coordinates-in-GDL/m-p/160879#M20481 Laszlo Nagy 2010-06-23T12:09:41Z