running Python code externally on multiple opened Archicad files

[Ady84a]

Hello everyone,

When I have more than one Archicad file open, and I run the python code externally (not in the Python Palette inside Archicad) the code runs on the first file I opened. 

How can I run the code in another opened file? Is there a way in python API to list the opened Archicad files, so that I open my python program externally and then choose in which file the python code runs?

best regards

[Aaron Bourgoin]

Question for Graphisoft:  is this due to the same bit of software design that opens a Grasshopper connection on the first AC session opened which may not be the session I want to run the Grasshopper connection in? It sounds eerily similar and both issues need to be fixed.

[poco2013]

FYI --- For two running instances of Archicad, Archicad will use separate ports,

Set the port for your script manually as in:

conn = ACConnection.connect( 19723 )

I believe ports are assigned serially from 19723 - 19744 but another application could take a port # 

[poco2013]

BTW--- in the Python Palette, if you click on the info icon, it will list the port that the present instance of Archicad is using.