Element_Change vs. Element_ChangeParameters (faster?)

[Anonymous]

Hi!

The plugin i am coding has to move many Elements (Lines, Arcs, Polylines) to a different layer.
I have wrapper-class for each element-type and each element-wrapper-object is synced with the ArchiCAD-Database using "ACAPI_Element_Change" after the layer-id has been changed.
Moving the elements this way is _very_ slow 😞
1000 lines : 7 seconds...

Recently i found the API-Command "ACAPI_Element_ChangeParameters" which seems to change a amount of elements.
I assume this way would be faster, but it would be difficult for me to change to this method, so i would like to hear about your experiences with that.

Would it be a lot faster?

Thanks for advices 🙂

regards,
John

[Anonymous]

John wrote:
Would it be a lot faster?

I did a little test:
moving 1000 lines to a different layer takes 0.2 seconds 🙂
7 seconds to 0.2 seconds... yes it _is_ a lot faster 😄

cu

[TomWaltz]

Wow, that is faster!!