String's

[wilson83]

Can anyone give me some insight into Strings? I cant seem to grasp what the underlying concept in using them.

For example, the following code is for a title marker I am TRYING to make. The marker detects the drawings scale and determines what scale bar to show.

n = SPLIT (AC_DrawingScale, "%n:%n", num1,notUsed, num2)
IF num2=100 THEN
MUL2 100,100
GOSUB 100:
ENDIF
IF num2=200 THEN
GOSUB 200:
ENDIF
IF num2=500 THEN
GOSUB 500:
ENDIF


The GOSUBS refer to the various scale bars that I have drawn. I can’t claim credit for the SPLIT command- I pulled that out of another title marker (which is probably part of my problem). Can someone explain to me what I need to make this work and/or why this won’t work? The way I understand it is that num1 and num2 are return the values of scale (1:100 into num1:num2). If num2 =100 then the 1:100 scale is displayed and so on.

Cheers

AC14 on windows 7

[David Maudlin]

wilson83:

The code works for me, but you need to add the parameter AC_DrawingScale to your object for this value to be available. Also, this will not work in the library editing window 2D Full View, you need to place a view in a layout and assign this title to it for testing.

HTH,

David