topic Re: ISSUE_Style - ArchiCAD GDL Reference Guide in Libraries & objects

ISSUE_Style - ArchiCAD GDL Reference Guide

Nader Belal — Tue, 29 Jan 2019 20:15:56 GMT

Hi there,

In "ArchiCAD 22 GDL Reference Manual" page 494 under "Variable names" it states and I quote:

You should use a prefix in generally used variable names to denote general categories. This can spare time when someone needs to find out the
type of a variable or parameter.

But there nothing mentioned about Building Materials ... I think you should include this point in the GDL manual

Re: ISSUE_Style - ArchiCAD GDL Reference Guide

Lingwisyer — Wed, 30 Jan 2019 01:41:31 GMT

I just use "buildingMatIndex" or something along those lines then maybe follow it with a suffix if there are multiple. Or following a similar line of thought, you could put "Index or idx" at the start in reference to file attributes. But in the end, it comes down to user preference and/or user protocol of how you label everything.

Ling.

Re: ISSUE_Style - ArchiCAD GDL Reference Guide

Nader Belal — Wed, 30 Jan 2019 15:14:42 GMT

Ling, my comment was for standardisation