topic Re: Story information in Libraries & objects

Story information

Red — Wed, 24 May 2023 10:12:04 GMT

Does anyone have an example they can share that would show the following.

Story information
GLOB_HSTORY_ELEV B_ elevation of the home story
home story is the one the object is placed on
GLOB_HSTORY_HEIGHT Q_ height of the home story
home story is the one the object is placed on
GLOB_CSTORY_ELEV Q~ elevation of the current story
current story is the one currently shown in the Floor Plan window
GLOB_CSTORY_HEIGHT R~ height of the current story
current story is the one currently shown in the Floor Plan window
GLOB_CH_STORY_DIST S~ relative position of the current story to the home story
current story is the one currently shown in the Floor Plan window

To my understanding it is possible that have part of an object show up on one story and part of it on another. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Example:
The object that I'm working with is a Glu-lam and on its on story I would like for it to show the size ( 5 1/8 x 17 7/8 ), but when it is shown one story down the text is not needed. Is there away to achieve this with the variables above.

Re: Story information

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Dec 2004 19:41:35 GMT

Red,
I have a library part of a fireplace and chimney.
When I am in the home story the object shows a firebox and
masonry infill around the fire box and
a dashed line for the chimney above.
When I go up one or more stories the object shows
just the chimney cross-section.

In the parameter list I made an integer type parameter named "sstory"
"Show on stories above home story"
In the 2D script I made a parameter and initialized it "stor=s~"
(GLOB_CH_STORY_DIST S~).
Then I made the following "If" condition,
IF STOR>0 AND STOR<=Sstory THEN ....
followed by the code for just the chimney.
This seems to work for this fireplace object.
Is this what you want to do?
Peter Devlin

Re: Story information

Red — Wed, 08 Dec 2004 19:44:23 GMT

Peter wrote:
Is this what you want to do?
Peter Devlin

It looks to be similar, but it may point me in the right direction.

Re: Story information

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Dec 2004 19:57:32 GMT

Red,
It occurs to me that all you have to do is, in the 2D script,
write:
If s~=0 then
(the code for displaying the size of the glulam)
endif

Wouldn't that do it?
Peter Devlin

Re: Story information

Red — Wed, 08 Dec 2004 21:22:48 GMT

Ok I got another question now. Is there anyway to script a fill that will adjust to the text length.

Re: Story information

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Dec 2004 21:45:37 GMT

Red,
If I understand you correctly, the stw() function is what you need.
On page 119 of the GDL reference manual version AC 8.1
there is an example for using the stw() (string width) function.
The example encloses some text with a rectangle and the
rectangle's width dimension is controlled by the return values
from the stw() function.
You could just substitute the dimensions of a fill
for those of the rectangle using the example code the way it is.

Peter Devlin
PS Did you get the glulam to show the way you wanted
depending on story?

Re: Story information

Laszlo Nagy — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 10:50:16 GMT

On the following web page there is detailed info on each of these Global GDL variables:
http://www.graphisoft.com/support/archicad/archiguide/generalparameters.html

Re: Story information

Red — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 13:14:47 GMT

Thanks for the info because I believe my GDL Manual grew legs and walked off.

Re: Story information

Red — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 14:32:52 GMT

Peter wrote:
PS Did you get the glulam to show the way you wanted
depending on story?

Yes I did and thanks for the help.