topic Re: Scripting question > bgcolor from parameter value in Libraries & objects

Scripting question > bgcolor from parameter value

Mats_Knutsson — Sun, 20 Mar 2016 18:24:51 GMT

Anyone clever knows how to color the label bg color depending on a value from an IFC-property I have a ton of cool uses for this but I don't have a ton of gdl-skills.

Re: Scripting question > bgcolor from parameter value

Barry Kelly — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 01:15:37 GMT

As far as I know GDL has no way of reading IFC values.

Barry.

Re: Scripting question > bgcolor from parameter value

Mats_Knutsson — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 09:49:02 GMT

Barry wrote:
As far as I know GDL has no way of reading IFC values.

Barry.

ouch

Re: Scripting question > bgcolor from parameter value

alemanda — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 11:37:22 GMT

Are you sure Barry?
How does the category label read IFC values and report them?
Is it hard coded label object?

Re: Scripting question > bgcolor from parameter value

Laszlo Nagy — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 13:16:57 GMT

Apparently, this is possible in GDL:

http://gdl.graphisoft.com/gdl-docs/gdl-guide/chapter-12-miscellaneous/application-query-options/#idmidm7974199600

If you look into the Tags and Categories Label's script, these GDL commands are used in one of its macros to get those parameters and their values.

Re: Scripting question > bgcolor from parameter value

Barry Kelly — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 01:43:28 GMT

alemanda wrote:
Are you sure Barry?
How does the category label read IFC values and report them?
Is it hard coded label object?

My bad sorry.
Looks like you can read the values as Laszlo suggested (can't say I have tried).

I hope it is not like the Project Info where you can read and display the value but you can't actually use it because it is only an autotext value.

Barry.