Fill Styles in Viewports

[twk]

Trying to figure out how to interpret values derived from this function:

fill_style = vs.GetVPClOvrdFillStyle(viewport_handle, class_name)

 

Description says it returns the fill style of that class that has been overridden in the viewport.

 

However whenever I set the class override to a Hatch, it returns a negative index value. Changing the hatch, returns a different negative index value; Tried using the Index2Name function to try and retrieve the hatch name being applied, but it returns nothing. Does anyone know how to convert these return values to the name of the hatch.

 

By the way, from my testings return values are:

1 = Solid Fill

0 = No Fill

3 = Pattern

 

 

Cheers,

Tui

[JBenghiat]

The return indices, starting with 0, should be:

 

None
Solid
Pattern
Hatch
Tile
Gradient
Image
RetainOriginal

 

It's possible that the VS implementation of this also returns the item index.  Try converting it to name with: vs.VectorFillList()

[twk]

Nope,

When a class override is set to use a pattern, it returns 3.

 

fill_style = vs.GetVPClOvrdFillStyle(vp.viewport_handle,class_name)

However, it was returning negative index values for either a Hatch/Tile/Image/Gradient, using vs.Index2Name(-fill_style), returned the name of the resource, then using vs.GetTypeN(vs.GetObject(vs.GetName))), returned the type of resource. whew, what a mission.. but it works,

 

Thanks for the input Josh.

 

-- CORRECTION

0 - None

1 - Solid (Back)

2 - Solid (Fore)

3 and above - Indexes of the Patterns

 

anything below 0 (negatives) use vs.Index2Name with negative mod applied.

 

cheers,

Tui

 

 

Edited August 28, 2018 by twk
correction