GDL Beginner : window questions

[Anonymous]

Hi guys !

I've been using archicad for quite a time so I decided to start learning GDL.

I decided to create a frameless window as exercise and to not start from scratch, I modified the Curved Window 19.
As of now, the window works fine, I can divide it horizontally and vertically but I still have some questions:

1) there is a lot of calls to external functions like

call "GS Window Functions"
call "FM_types"
call "ui_tabIDlistHierarchy_m"

is there more documentation about these function and is there a source code for it ? (to try to get what they are doing internally and how it's done)

2) I don't really get the UI part and it's not straight forward to understand what are the available default panels and if there is a way to modify them without rebuilding it from scratch.
ex: remove the Frame Surface from the model attributes List

! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
! Window Settings and Opening Model Attributes
! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"pageCallWinModAttributes":
	call "ui_WinSettOpeningModAttr_m" parameters listFieldWinOpSettAttrID = listFieldWinOpSettAttrID,
										iWindowShape	= iWindowShape,
										bVentilationProfile	= 0,
										iWindowType			= 18,				! WIN_Curved
										gs_bLeftSLight		= 0,
										gs_bSLight			= 0,
										gs_UTrans			= 0,
										gs_UTrans_Div		= 0,
										gs_LTrans			= 0,
										gs_LTrans_Div		= 0,
										gs_sash_uniform		= 0,
										gs_panes_number		= 0,
										bOverride_MVO_3D	= bOverride_MVO_3D,
										or_bOplines3D		= or_bOplines3D

return

If you have some solutions for that.

3) About the schedule.
a)Is there a way to easily annotate the drawings from the GDL script ? I'd like to have automatic dimensions for my panels. The attachment is made with the "annotate" tool of the schedule. I know how to check if I am drawing in the Schedule :

IF GLOB_CONTEXT = 6 THEN !Schedule 
	iLoD2D = SCALE_50
ENDIF

but I don't know how to draw dimensions objects. I think I can make it work with lines, but quite more complicated.
b) any idea on how to make it work in the elevation view of the window ?

Thank you for your help

[Anonymous]

Barry wrote:
But then what happens then when you want to adjust the length but not the angle?
You won't really win that one.

A Window has 4 hotspots to control the same value. One on each side is way enough to do that.

Barry wrote:
Just change the hotspot radius - that is the best/easiest solution I have found.
You never want hotspots overlapping if you can avoid it.

I am checking with other ways of modifying that angle, and overlapping hotspots are the main trouble I get with these ways. That's why I try to know if there is other solutions.