eas Posted February 27, 2007 Share Posted February 27, 2007 Is there a way to edit the name of a viewport? Quote Link to comment
ionw Posted February 27, 2007 Share Posted February 27, 2007 I honestly do not know of one. Sorry. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee klinzey Posted February 27, 2007 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted February 27, 2007 Use the data pane of the object info pal to change the name of the viewport object. Quote Link to comment
eas Posted February 27, 2007 Author Share Posted February 27, 2007 Perfect, thanks Kevin. (Wouldn't it make more sense if the names of viewports could be edited the same way that classes and layers are?) Quote Link to comment
Jonathan Pickup Posted February 27, 2007 Share Posted February 27, 2007 (edited) the name of the viewport is on the data pane of the Object Info Palette, and this can be edited via the organisation palette, the navigation palette, or directly on the Object Info Palette for a selected viewport. To edit the name of the viewport in the Navigation Palette, right mouse click on the viewport, choose edit, then change to the data tab Edited February 28, 2007 by archoncad Quote Link to comment
ionw Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 Great to know that. I have been working with this program for more than a decade and still finding things like this out. Quote Link to comment
Petri Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 Object names can be quite useful. They are checked for uniqueness and are "persistent", ie. retained when copying & pasting between files (uniqueness precedence is on "first in"-basis.) In future we will see - and may want to use - more object names. One of the really exciting new features in the plug-in development world is the ability to associate arbitrarily selected objects. Glad you asked. Of course it does not "mean" anything... What it means, though, is that two or more plug-in objects can talk to each other, exchange information. Two flights oF stairs might be logically connected, a beam might tell a column how it should design itself and so on. Meanwhile, this script will take you to the Principal's Office, if it has been named correctly: PROCEDURE MyOfficeNow; { ? Petri Sakkinen 1994 - 2007 } VAR objName : STRING; x, y : REAL; obHd : HANDLE; BEGIN objName := STRDIALOG('Office to go to for a flogging:', 'Principal'); IF NOT DIDCANCEL THEN BEGIN DSELECTALL; obHd := GETOBJECT(objName); IF NOT(obHd = NIL) THEN BEGIN LAYER(GETLNAME(GETLAYER(obHd))); SETSELECT(obHd); HCENTER(obHd, x, y); SETVCENTER(x, y); SETZOOM(100); END ELSE ALRTDIALOG('No such office, mate!'); END; END; RUN(MyOfficeNow); Quote Link to comment
MKingsley Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 (edited) It would be great if the viewport name could show up in the shape pane of the OIP next to where it says "Viewport" or "Section viewport". You would still edit it in the data pane, but since one spends more time in the shape pane, you could see the name of the viewport while editing it and therefore have a better chance of remembering that name when you go looking for that particular viewport in the navigation palette. It's not an issue when there's only one viewport on a sheet, but when there are many on a sheet or you have overlapping viewports it's easier to know their names and select them directly from the navigation palette when you need to. Edited February 28, 2007 by Michael K Quote Link to comment
mike m oz Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 Michael K's suggestion is an excellent one in my view. On the grounds of consistency it makes sense. Symbol names show so why not Viewport names. Quote Link to comment
islandmon Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 Sooner or later the OIP palettes will get side pop-out tabs ...index tabs listing each of the sheet viewports with the active VP highlited. Click a tab to activate a VP . Quote Link to comment
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