Zone Labels: read parameters from zones

[Jochen Suehlo]

For zone labels the usually used command

REQUEST ("ASSOCLP_PARVALUE", "ROOM_NAME", ...

seems not to work.

What is the corresponding command for zone parameters?

[Palawat]

You might want to look at the "Built-in Property".
For the Indigo Figs Zone Label, I request "Property_Value_Of_Parent" with a "Built-in Property" using "Builtin.Zone_ZoneName" for "Zone Name".

[Jochen Suehlo]

Thank You, Palawat.
This is very interesting. I checked your zone stamp from Indigo and in the stamp and MVO object I have seen that the whole parameters section from the zone stamp is there in the Property list.
Questions:
1. does the zone label uses these zone properties and not a direct request to the zone parameters?
2. How did you get those "zone parameters" in the Properties dropdown list?
Is there any example in the Archicad library that I didn't find?

[Palawat]

Glad I could help.

1. Yes, it does. Since all the ROOM_NAME, ROOM_NUMBER, ... are available only for zone stamp, so the zone label uses built-in zone properties.

2. Not sure if there's an example but I use UI_CUSTOM_POPUP_INFIELD which accepts array variables.

Master script:

dim uiZoneParam[][]

uiZoneParam[1][1] = "Zone Name"
uiZoneParam[1][2] = "Catagory Name"
uiZoneParam[1][3] = ""
uiZoneParam[1][4] = "Zone Name"

uiZoneParam[2][1] = "Zone Number"
uiZoneParam[2][2] = "Catagory Name"
uiZoneParam[2][3] = ""
uiZoneParam[2][4] = "Zone Number"

...

UI script:

dim parentProperties[]
n = REQUEST ("Properties_Of_Parent", "", parentProperties)
n = REQUEST("PROPERTY_NAME", name, typeName, groupName, propertyName)
ui_custom_popup_infield{2}	name, x, y, width, height,
				1, 3, 1, propertyName,
				"None", "", "", "None",
				uiZoneParam,
				parentProperties

These are not the actual code. I simplified it a bit but yes, you get the idea. 🙂

[Piotr Dobrowolski]

BTW. Zone labels biggest drawback (resulting in "not using" in general) is inability to access the zone stamp parameters - GS devs please read 🙂

[Peter Baksa]

Hi,

please enter/vote a wish about those which aren't available as properties.

[Piotr Dobrowolski]

Done

[Jochen Suehlo]

The example objects from Graphisoft are very complicated. The GDL manual is also not very well documented. It therefore took me a while to figure out the simplest version of how to read a room stamp parameter with a label (Thank You Palawat for the hint).

IF _param[i] = "Room Name" THEN
  _actProperty = "Builtin.Zone_ZoneName" ! Room Name
  m = request ("Property_Value_Of_Parent", _actProperty, _typeValue, dim1, dim2, _propertyValues)
  _content_2D[i] = _propertyValues
ENDIF