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Element ID and other old Properties

Anonymous
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I have quite a simple question. But I really could find a simple solution in the documentation. I have check Element and Memo structure and it's not there.

I would like to access element ID and also other Properties which are older than properties like: structural function, position. How can I do it?
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leilei
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kzaremba wrote:
I have quite a simple question. But I really could find a simple solution in the documentation. I have check Element and Memo structure and it's not there.

I would like to access element ID and also other Properties which are older than properties like: structural function, position. How can I do it?
Hi,
The element id is elemInfoString in memo.You can find what you want in the Do_DumpElem function in the Element_baseic.cpp

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leilei
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kzaremba wrote:
I have quite a simple question. But I really could find a simple solution in the documentation. I have check Element and Memo structure and it's not there.

I would like to access element ID and also other Properties which are older than properties like: structural function, position. How can I do it?
Hi,
The element id is elemInfoString in memo.You can find what you want in the Do_DumpElem function in the Element_baseic.cpp
Anonymous
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leilei wrote:
elemInfoString
Thanks a lot, I would never found it out Do you have any clue how to access other parameters like position, structural function?

I mean time I did a workaround and put ID into the property with an expression. Probably we will do it with other properties and kind of skip using those old props.
leilei
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Hi,
You can see this in Element_Test example.

// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Dump element category value
// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
void		Do_DumpElemCategoryValue (const API_ElemCategoryValue& elemCategoryValue)
{
	WriteReport ("   %s   : %s (%s)", GS::UniString (elemCategoryValue.category.name).ToCStr ().Get (), GS::UniString (elemCategoryValue.name).ToCStr ().Get (), APIGuidToString (elemCategoryValue.guid).ToCStr ().Get ());
}


// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Dump element's categories
// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
void		Do_DumpElemCategories (const API_Guid& elemGuid, const API_ElemTypeID& typeID, const API_ElemVariationID& variationID, bool dumpDefaults)
{
	GSErrCode			err = NoError;

	GS::Array<API_ElemCategory> categoryList;
	ACAPI_Database (APIDb_GetElementCategoriesID, &categoryList);

	categoryList.Enumerate ([&] (const API_ElemCategory& category) {
		if (category.categoryID != API_ElemCategory_BRI) {
			API_ElemCategoryValue	elemCategoryValue;

			if (dumpDefaults) {
				err = ACAPI_Element_GetCategoryValueDefault (typeID, variationID, category, &elemCategoryValue);
				if (err == NoError)
					Do_DumpElemCategoryValue (elemCategoryValue);
				else
					ErrorBeep ("ACAPI_Element_GetCategoryValueDefault ()", err);
			} else {
				err = ACAPI_Element_GetCategoryValue (elemGuid, category, &elemCategoryValue);
				if (err == NoError)
					Do_DumpElemCategoryValue (elemCategoryValue);
				else
					ErrorBeep ("ACAPI_Element_GetCategoryValue ()", err);
			}
		}
	});
}
Anonymous
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Thanks a lot. I saw it but when I saw name Categories i thought it Zone related function. Thanks for the right direction.