Auto Label that tells me the Material Name of an Element

[Anonymous]

Can anyone out there give me some help in finishing an Auto Label I'm trying to write in GDL. I can get the label to bring me back all sorts of information about the object except the "name of the material". I can get the label to return to me the material index number (and all sorts of amazing obscure bits of information) but not the name of the finish.

I have tried using all the GDL REQUEST functions and global variables but none seem to return the "name" of the material only its index number.

[Karl Ottenstein]

JPN,

Welcome to ac-talk with your first post...which is to the wrong forum. This is a wish forum (with poll) and you are asking a question that belongs in the Libraries / Lib Parts / GDL forum. I'm asking the moderator to move this thread there.

Second, always do a search before posting - 90% of all questions asked have already been answered. This is not to discourage posts - only to save everyone's time, including the person with the question who then gets an immediate answer.

Searching on the words 'material label' gives this result:
http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?p=4102#4102
which I believe is what you are looking for?

In the GDL Reference Manual you will find:

REQUEST ("Name_of_material", index, name)
Returns in the variable the material name identified by index.

Cheers,
Karl