Door orientation

[Joze Marinko]

Hey,

I changed Door GDL code a little bit. Everything work as I expected but orientation text in Schedule got weird. I just want letter L for Left Door and R for Right Door.

What is going on here?

Operating system used: Mac Intel-based Ventura 13.7.1

 

[Laszlo Nagy]

When you opened the Door for editing, did you by any chance change the Left and Right Orientation value fields in the Compatibility Options Dialog?

Can you show me a screenshot that shows the values for your Door?

 

[Joze Marinko]

Hey Laszlo, thanks for your answer. I did not change anything in this dialog (difference to your image is because I took USA door for editing). I also tried all combinations witho no changes in schedule.

As I read there is also a script version of determining the Door opening direction. It may be related, but I can't find a macro that edits this output.

 

[Laszlo Nagy]

My understanding was that those fields (ore or the other) are listed as Orientation in Schedules, so if some other value is listed, I would suspect that it is a bug, so I will report it to GS HQ.

[Peter Baksa]

Hi Joze,

This is something related to localization of .libpack files.

The parameter default value is "L{{Abbreviation of Left}}" which normally gets replaced from the localization dictionaries in the .libpack file to "L" in english. When you extract content from the libpack, AC no longer uses the dictionaries, and will find the unlocalized parameter default.

You can either

* re-assemble the .libpack with the modified code: https://gdl.graphisoft.com/gdl_tips_tricks_chapter/library-package-technology

* embed the libpacks into the plan with localized strings by saving as PLA - this is the easier way if you don't need to switch to another localization later

[Joze Marinko]

The definition of "L{{Abbreviation of Left}}" is in GS Door Functions_USA. Text is nested in parameter stOpeningSide[ ]. 

But I don't understand from where comes text, which is in the original door without modifications. There are letters R and L and also without letters for some special doors. In which macro is this definition? You mentioned localization dictionaries in the .libpack file. Can you be more specific?