Highlight an element

[Mark Oostveen]

Hi,

I am looking for a way to Highlight an element or a group of elements like you use e.g. the group function inside TopSolid.
Usig this function you select one by one some elements and change color:

A alement usualy becomes red (or gray if origional color to close to red), and a shape becomes transparent. If selected a inserted component they all get selected and turn red like above.

What I want is put elements on the stack using the API and then highlight these elements.

With some help I tried to make a LIP using UWselectO, UWselectA and UWselectC. But altough it seems to run OK no highlighting appears. Does anybody has an idear?

Thanks

Mark

[Mark Oostveen]

Ok
Well by analysing the group/create.lip I found out that the graphical echo on a selected element is not coming from UWselect but from the ask function.

So therefore I conclude that I cannot get the same behaviour if I want to skip the question as I have put the elements on stack using API.

Changing the attributes through API is also ( color red, transparant 5) not a solution as it is not always allowed to change these of inserted components. So if I want to highlight a element of such a component I get an error. Logic.

Anyone some other direction I can dig in to?

Grz.

Mark

[gmanucci]

what about drawing blocks?

btw i don't know how to get the screen position of this.

i'll work on that ASAP

[Mark Oostveen]

There is a function ZoomInElement so that gives you the element in the visible area of the screen.

What do you mean by drawing boxes? Like a enclosed block?

[gmanucci]

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    Private Sub Form1_Paint(sender As Object, e As System.Windows.Forms.PaintEventArgs) Handles Me.Paint
        e.Graphics.DrawRectangle(Pens.Green, 10, 10, 200, 150)
    End Sub

[Mark Oostveen]

Sorry I lost you. What is this doing? How does it "highlight" an element in the graphic area of TopSolid?

[gmanucci]

aw, sry,

i didn't understand that to highlight an graphic object...

i did understand to highlight something on the GUI, like the Project Tree, operations Tree...

sry again!

[gmanucci]

did u read about IUser Interface?

there you have some options like AskFace, Color, etc.

[Mark Oostveen]

no, there is none... Working with V6

[gmanucci]

you do meaning it?

if on v6 have the GetColor and SetColor, we can do these things!

[Mark Oostveen]

Buy in case of a component the attributes might be locked. Than your option does not work as it is not allowed to set the color.

But thanks for giving it a thought.

[gmanucci]

are you using assembly file?

i got the shapes getting all elements then using the TopSolidHost.Elements.IsColorModifiable(ElementId), now i can manipulate these list...

i'm not using the TopSolidHost.Shapes.GetShapes(ElementId) > this returns nothing on assembly file (with components).

http://i.imgur.com/00KCvg7.png
http://i.imgur.com/6MRYaVj.png
http://i.imgur.com/9iRTYcb.png
http://i.imgur.com/jUUazvF.png

[Mark Oostveen]

That's TopSolid V7. I am using TopSolid'Wood which is still in V6.