Counting Symbols Inside of a Symbol

[J. Miller]

I seem to be a bit lost here. I have a selection of symbols (that have symbols inside of them),I want to count the quantity of a specific symbol inside of the selected symbols. I'm not sure how to traverse through the individual symbol parts to find the particular symbol i want to count. Believe me, I have tried with no luck. Any hints to this issue?

Thanks in advance

Jeff Miller

[MullinRJ]

Hi Jeff,

???Try the following "untested" code snippet to step inside and count your embedded symbols. You can use an outer WHILE loop to step through the selected objects, or give this snippet a function name and use ForEachObjectInLayer(), pick your poison.

HTH,

Raymond

{ for each selected symbol instance pointed to by SymHnd, step inside and look around }

H := FInSymDef(GetObject(GetSymName(SymHnd)));

while (H<>nil) do begin

???if (GetType(H)=15) & (GetSymName(H)=TargetSymName) then

?????? Cnt := Cnt + 1;

???H := NextObj(H);

end;

[J. Miller]

That's the ticket. I glad to see I'm not the only one reading / writing code on a Sunday. I was getting hung up with the FinSymDef function.

Thanks Raymond,

Jeff

[MullinRJ]

My pleasure, Jeff. Glad I could help. - R