How to switch to 3d window by ACAPI?

[sxs]

Hi,everyone:

GSErrCode err = ACAPI_Sight_SelectSight (nullptr, &origSight);
if (err != NoError) {
	ErrorBeep ("Cannot switch to the 3D sight", err);
	return err;
}

  I  try this to switch to the 3d window, but it does not work.

[Ralph Wessel]

Call ACAPI_Database_ChangeCurrentDatabase passing APIWind_3DModelID as the API_DatabaseInfo.typeID

[sxs]

This API still has no effect, but the return value is NoError. Is it related to my ArchiCad currently running DEMO status?

[sxs · Accepted solution]

{
		API_WindowInfo      windowInfo;
		API_DatabaseInfo    origDB, planDB;
		API_Element         element;
		GS::Array<API_Guid> elemList;
		GSErrCode           err;

		BNZeroMemory(&planDB, sizeof(API_DatabaseInfo));
		planDB.typeID = APIWind_3DModelID;

		//ACAPI_Database(APIDb_GetCurrentDatabaseID, &origDB, nullptr);
		ACAPI_Database_ChangeCurrentDatabase(&planDB);
		//
		BNZeroMemory(&windowInfo, sizeof(API_WindowInfo));
		windowInfo.typeID = APIWind_3DModelID;
		windowInfo.databaseUnId = planDB.databaseUnId;
		err = ACAPI_Window_ChangeWindow(&windowInfo);
	}

   this can work.

[kolioi]

You can use also ACAPI_View_GoToView()

[Ralph Wessel]

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@sxs wrote:

This API still has no effect, but the return value is NoError. Is it related to my ArchiCad currently running DEMO status?

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When you say it has no effect, do you mean you don't see the view come to the front? If so, this isn't what ACAPI_Database_ChangeCurrentDatabase does. It makes the 3D window the current database for all following API commands that concern a specific database, e.g. ACAPI_View_Rebuild

If you simply want to bring the view to the front, use ACAPI_Window_ChangeWindow, but I don't think that's what you want to do in the context of a notification handler

[sxs]

Ok,I got it