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The Descending and Ascending Sort function in the worksheet are nice but don't work properly on numbers placed in a text field. A lot of PIOS use a number to trace them, ideal to list them in a worksheet. Sadly, that number is stored as a string and won't sort properly Sorting will give the following: 1 10 11 2 21 22 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Is there any way to sort them the right way and not tread them as if they were strings ??

I guess its all about the " Alternate Name" in the parameters setup. Too bad I can't find the script space in the plugin list I did find the fieldname by accident, but is there a way to list the fieldnames of each property of a plugin object/tool ?

From what I know, each object has an asigned record where the data is stored. This way, in a database record we can retrieve data this way: objectname.fieldname This works for most fieldnames, but not for all. Is this because the fieldnames are language based so we need the real variable name ? If so, where do we get them ? For example Object space: space.length gives me the length of the space. space.'ceiling height' doesn't return anything Both length as ceiling height are parameters in the shape pallette of the object "space"..

The select similar tool is different as it will select ALL possible symbols when clicking on one. The tool I made will only select the "kind" of symbols I select. If I want to change All my lights named L1, I just need to click one and the script will select all placed L1 symbols in the layer. Select similar tool would select all symbols instead. If not, i'm a fool. (edit: never noticed the tool properties could be changed. Thus i'm a fool lol, good practice though.) As a sidenote I ran into another problem. when trying to select the basic objects ( text, line ) the command doesn't respond, even if the string is right. t_temp:=concat(BNames[j]); {this returns Text} UprString(t_temp); {make it TEXT} test:=concat('T=',t_temp); {create T=TEXT to select all text objects} SelectObj((test)); {no text gets selected ?}

Ah, exactly what I was looking for, thanks.

Hey, I recently made a small plugin object trough the plug-in editor(Tools=>scripts=>vw plugin editor). Its ment to be a heat device drawn as a rectangle and some info in it. I've added it to my post, use it as a plug in object or look at the code of it to give you a heads up..

In best case, GetName(h) was able to return "none" which indicates the plugin object has no name. The same result with custom and standard plugin objects while they do have a "name" or lets say a "title" in the object info palette. Its that value I need in order to select the object. Anyone ?

I know I can retrieve the type with GetType(h); and change the selection code to retrieve all " lines " etc. But I still can't get the objects

Hello, I've made a script to select ALL symbols in a layer, where atleast one of them is allready selected. I'd like to extend it for other objects(plugin, line, text etc) but I fail at getting the names of the selected objects. I know i'll have to change the selection part, but I just need to find a way to get the selected objects info PROCEDURE SelectObjects; VAR OCount,i,j: INTEGER; r, g, b :LONGINT; OName,OName2,OName3,strinkie,test,selectie :STRING; ONames : DYNARRAY[] of STRING; FUNCTION SelectThem(h :HANDLE) :BOOLEAN; BEGIN OName := GetSymName(h); IF OName ='' THEN BEGIN OName := GetName(h); {can't get the object name ?} END; ONames:=OName; i:=i+1; END; BEGIN selectie:='Geselecteerde symbolen: '; OCount:=NumSelectedObjects; IF OCount<2 THEN OCount:=2; i:=1; ALLOCATE ONames [1..OCount]; ForEachObjectInLayer(SelectThem, 2, 0, 0); SortArray(ONames,OCount,1); DSelectAll; FOR j:=1 TO OCount DO BEGIN IF OName2<>ONames[j] THEN BEGIN strinkie:=concat(ONames[j]); OName2:=strinkie; SelectObj((S=strinkie)); selectie:=concat(selectie,strinkie,', '); END; END; AlrtDialog(selectie); END; RUN(SelectObjects);

It seems like I was combining the both. I can indeed just retrieve it that easily, thanks for helping out though

Hey, I've been making my own objects and would like to have a custom list of choice in the object shape tab. This can be made by setting the parameter to "pop up" but I fail at getting the data from that popup into my vectorscript? Can anyone point me into the right direction ? I've noticed its not possible by doing variable :=PFIELDNAME;...