topic Re: Editable Hotspots and GLOB_CONTEXT in Libraries & objects

Editable Hotspots and GLOB_CONTEXT

Anonymous — Wed, 24 May 2023 10:49:46 GMT

I'm trying to write an object which will display different information in the Plan and Section/Elevation windows. I have successfully used the GLOB_CONTEXT to differentiate between the two, and display the two variations successfully. However, any editable hotpots which are set to display in only one view become un-editable.

ie, in the following case

IF GLOB_CONTEXT = 4 THEN
HOTSPOT2 0,0,0,leftext,1
HOTSPOT2 -leftext,0,0,leftext,2
...
ENDIF

The hotspots will display in the section window, but I cannot use them to edit the parameter.

Is there some way around this problem, or must editable hotspots display for all cases of the 2D script?

Re: Editable Hotspots and GLOB_CONTEXT

Laszlo Nagy — Sun, 17 Oct 2004 00:01:06 GMT

Rowan wrote:
I'm trying to write an object which will display different information in the Plan and Section/Elevation windows. I have successfully used the GLOB_CONTEXT to differentiate between the two, and display the two variations successfully. However, any editable hotpots which are set to display in only one view become un-editable.

ie, in the following case

IF GLOB_CONTEXT = 4 THEN
HOTSPOT2 0,0,0,leftext,1
HOTSPOT2 -leftext,0,0,leftext,2
...
ENDIF

The hotspots will display in the section window, but I cannot use them to edit the parameter.

Is there some way around this problem, or must editable hotspots display for all cases of the 2D script?

I don't think so because the HOTSPOT2 is a 2D GDL command, it applies to the Floor Plan. So Hotspots you see in a S/E Window are actually 3D Hotspots. (I might be wrong).

Re: Editable Hotspots and GLOB_CONTEXT

Anonymous — Tue, 19 Oct 2004 08:40:38 GMT

I'm not referring to the 3d HOTSPOT command, which would produce different hotspots visible in the section window, but an entirely 2d object which will show different information depending on the view the object is placed into.

Re: Editable Hotspots and GLOB_CONTEXT

Anonymous — Tue, 16 Nov 2004 13:26:40 GMT

Rowan wrote:
I'm trying to write an object which will display different information in the Plan and Section/Elevation windows. I have successfully used the GLOB_CONTEXT to differentiate between the two, and display the two variations successfully. However, any editable hotpots which are set to display in only one view become un-editable.

ie, in the following case

IF GLOB_CONTEXT = 4 THEN
HOTSPOT2 0,0,0,leftext,1
HOTSPOT2 -leftext,0,0,leftext,2
...
ENDIF

The hotspots will display in the section window, but I cannot use them to edit the parameter.

Is there some way around this problem, or must editable hotspots display for all cases of the 2D script?

The HOTSPOT/HOTSPOT2 statement has been chenged since AC 8. Now it requires more statement to define an editable hotspot.
For example, to edit a length type parameter, three hotspots must be defined. To edit an angle type parameter, four hotspots must be defined.

You can find detailed introduction in Help file.

Good luck.

Wolf