Wall label that displays composite wall name

[Anonymous]

Hi Folks,

We are creating a bunch of composite walls named their partition type(1, 2, 2A, etc.) And I'm trying to get my wall label to display the name of the composite wall.

I'm using a request to get the name to display in the text, but its not working yet. I'm concerned I'm missing some parameter function. Care to weigh-in?

Thanks.

My script follows:

! Find Wall type name (WTN ) from Composite wall
wall_typ_name=""
Request ('WALL_COMPS_NAME', '', wall_typ_name)
TEXT2 0, 0, wall_typ_name

I thought the text2 command would display the requested value, but it isn't doing anything.

[Anonymous]

Try:

! Find Wall type name (WTN ) from Composite wall 
wall_typ_name="" 
n1 = Request ('WALL_COMPS_NAME', '', wall_typ_name) 
TEXT2 0, 0, wall_typ_name 

I didn't test it but I think it should work.
HTH.

[Anonymous]

Hi Paulo,

Thanks, but no luck.

I get the message, "Unused function return value" and then describes wall_typ_name as an "uninitialized variable." The script stops. ( I know it stops, because there are lines and text that aren't showing up in the 2d full view with the request code. ) Strange, because I thought it would just return a "0" value, and continue.

Other suggestions?

[Anonymous]

Hi Nathan,

Sorry. Yesterday I was just leaving the office when I answered your post...
I've checked the GDL Reference Manual this morning. 'WALL_COMPS_NAME' is not a request, but a global variable for walls... Try this on the 2d script:

TEXT2 0, 0, WALL_COMPS_NAME

This time it will work.

[Anonymous]

Thanks. Did the trick. As usual, making things more complicated than they need to be.

-Nathan