topic Re: Global Variable gs_label_width in Modeling

Global Variable gs_label_width

fuzzytnth3 — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 15:04:40 GMT

I am bringing an old Archicad 11 Project back to life as we have been tasked with re-cladding the Building and so need to edit a lot of the original Details.

What I have discovered is that a Label object I made as a poor mans Keynote tool uses a couple of Global Variables to find out the size of the label within the MasterScript.

Now it seems since Archicad 22 this is a bad thing. The other problem is the variable I called doesn't appear in the current Archicad 25 GDL Guide which means I assume I need to find out its new name.

The two variables giving me the issue are...

gs_label_width

gs_label_height

Any idea what these variables are now called as I haven't found them in the manual yet?

Thanks

Re: Global Variable gs_label_width

fuzzytnth3 — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 15:32:35 GMT

Oh argh, so my object was based on a Graphisoft Archicad 9 label object which I tweaked to suit what I wanted as it was good at handling changes of view scale and guess what it uses the variable "Glob_Scale" in the Master Script which the manual says you can't use as a parameter which obviously this label object does...

"I'm going to be sometime" as Captain Oates said

Re: Global Variable gs_label_width

DGSketcher — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 16:00:22 GMT

@fuzzytnth3 See if these pages help...

https://gdl.graphisoft.com/tips-and-tricks/labels-special-parameters

https://gdl.graphisoft.com/tips-and-tricks/new-parametrization-of-labels-for-archicad22

Re: Global Variable gs_label_width

fuzzytnth3 — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 09:03:20 GMT

Thanks for those links. Looks like they could fix the problem. Fingers crossed.