How do I avoid the wall insertion of my plugin?

[Nebeor]

I don't want my plugin to interfere with the Vectorworks walls because it isn't a door, neither a window.

so I tried to tweak with some object variables (varCreateCustomObjectDontInsertInWall),   

as well the SParametricDef struct that belongs to the plug-in object but without result.

How can I block the wall insertion of my plug-in object?

I'll thank you beforehand for your reply.

[Pat Stanford]

In Vectorscript it would be SetObjectVariableBoolean(ObjectHandle, 6709, True). It should be similar in the SDK.

 

[Nicolas Goutte]

Try:

gSDK->SetObjectProperty(objID, kObjXPropPreventWallInsertion, true);

 

(Where ObjID ist the MCObjectHandle.)

[JBenghiat]

In _EventSink::OnInitXProperties()

 

set:

 

extProps->SetObjectProperty(objectID, kObjXPropPreventWallInsertion, true);

 

varCreateCustomObjectDontInsertInWall is actually an application preference (var* are prefs and ov* are object variables). To use that, you would implement in the handle complete event of your custom tool — get the current setting, set to true, restore setting. This is equivalent of clicking the option in the mode bar.

[Nebeor]

On 7/12/2019 at 6:11 PM, JBenghiat said:

In _EventSink::OnInitXProperties()

 

set:

 

extProps->SetObjectProperty(objectID, kObjXPropPreventWallInsertion, true);

 

varCreateCustomObjectDontInsertInWall is actually an application preference (var* are prefs and ov* are object variables). To use that, you would implement in the handle complete event of your custom tool — get the current setting, set to true, restore setting. This is equivalent of clicking the option in the mode bar.

Thank you Joshua, this makes completely sense!