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Thanks to MaxStudio and Pat Stanford for their help in the topic "Saved View / Layer". My code now works fine... however:

When I add a new design layer, VS adds it as the first layer. It would be good if the stacking order of the new layer could be changed as part of the script.

I've had a look in the function API, but there doesn't appear to be anywhere to access the layer stacking order. Have I missed something?

VW2008 on Mac OS-X

Regards,

Timbo

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Timbo,

???Since no one else has posted I decided to try this. hMoveBackward() does work. Here's an example that creates a new layer with a stock name, numbers it and sends it to the bottom. It can be easily made into a procedure or function that can be called from within a larger script.

Raymond

PROCEDURE NewLayerOnBottom;
{ Create a new layer and send it to the bottom of the stacking order. }
CONST
BLN = 'Layer';		{ Base Layer Name }
VAR
I :Integer;
S :String;
BEGIN
I := 1;
while (GetLayerByName(concat(BLN, ' ', I)) <> nil) do 
	I := I + 1;
S := concat(BLN, ' ', I);
Layer(S);
hMoveBackward(GetLayerByName(S), True);	
END;
Run(NewLayerOnBottom);

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@MullinRJ

 

Stumbled into this script and it solved another one of those inexplicable aggravating anomalies in Vectorworks

 

Reverse order of new Design Layers...

Created a New Design Layers by duplicating an existing one

VW will add a sequential suffix number with the same name. (Page 1, Page 2, etcetera) - works great !

¿ The Problem ? - The Stacking order is the exact opposite (?)

 

Your script above does the trick - It is even easy to go in and change the name of the Layer to what is needed...

 

Thanks Much

 

Peter 

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