Arbortext

I stumbled across some code, or one of my authors did, that is behavingdifferently in 6.0 than in 5.3.In 5.3, a package with _STRICT_=1 operates "silently" but in 6.0 the debugwindow opens and displays warnings regarding the implicit declaration ofvariables. The 6.0 behavior seems, actually, to be correct, but I can'tquite figure out why it is behaving differently than 5.3.At this point, not a biggee, just a curiosity.-- Paul Nagai

Hello all,Thanks for the responses on my previous threads. We are learning and trying tocatch up as fast as we can, and I appreiciate everyone's input on past responses.I wanted to know if everyone knew of any place to learn about APP styling code.Some stylesheets we received from our mother company have APP code written into FOSI stylesheets. There are a lot of quirks with their system, and this is part of the bug. They can't print to pdf from edit view. They have to first resolve the document for styling and then print. Their goal was to provide for 2 columns in the fosi sheet with wrapped text around graphics. The problem is, we can't run batch processes if we have to resolve for styling from AE everytime.I might not be able to undo the resolve for styling issue yet, but if I can understand APP better it might give me insight on how to change it in the future.ThanksBryon Thomas

Running into this error when using the PE. It terminates any prints to PDF. I tried increasing the heap size from 768 to 1024 to 2000 fromPE configuration,rebooting every to,e, but this is not fixing the issue. Any thoughts?ThanksBryon Thomas

I have created some macros in the arbortext editor and can't work out how to assign them to a keyboard shortcut. Any help would be great.

Dear Friends, While import the "AI" file in Isodraw 7.1, Some Text are broken. How I will avoid that?

Hello!I use Java (the plugin is made) for modifying the content of the opened XML/SGML files (Arbortext 5.2).I need to collect the text from text nodes. Additionally, I have to add "\r\n" after parsing some nodes."\r\n" are used as sentence terminator.<heading>Some text</heading><content>Main article<content> will be transformed into "Some text\r\nMain article\r\n". So, we have 2 sentences though they don't have standard dots at the end.So, in this example "heading", "content" are external tags, "b" is an internal tag.Can I get the list of such standard internal/external tags? Or should I make a dialog with the settings which allows to add them to ini file? The division is required to control sentence boundaries.

Hello! I use Epic Editor 5.1. I've read that it was impossible to cancel xml modification in event handlers.In Java plugin I use calls like this in DOMSubtreeModifiedListener_ when we deal with node removing:((ADocument) doc).undo();But when I deal with node insertion, I get the following error in DOMSubtreeModifiedListener_ :epic: segment violation (signal 11)undo procedure for insertion is made within DOMNodeInsertedListener_ and DOMSubtreeModifiedListener_ does not execute undo procedure for insertion (the situation is inverse for removing - undo is called within DOMSubtreeModifiedListener_).What are the tricks for indirect cancellation?If I should use ACL, then show me the example of it for Java using Acl class, please.I mean the link of handler written in ACL and the ACL event by Java means.I'd like to avoid using external additional *.acl files in my Java plugin, instead of it I'd like to store acl scripts in String objects.

I just discovered tag templates in Arbortext and strongly encourage any Arbortext user to start using them!Where to find: Tools > Tag TemplatesUse to create and insert frequently used sets of tags and content.  So far I have created tables where I only need to add cell information.

Adepters,Using Arbortext Epic 5.3m040 running on Windows XP with 3 gig of RAM installed I am encountering a problem that I thought was solved y a custom.tmx file back in 2008. When a table continues to another page Arbortext Editor with Print Composer is repeating the top rule. This is not supposed to happen and I have no clue why it is happening now.Does anyone else have this problem or a different fix for it?Here is a snapshot of the top of the page and the applicable portion of the custom.tmx file:[cid:image002.png@01CD554B.109375E0]%------------------------------------------------------------------% File: custom.tmx%% Description: This file defines special formatting instructions% for all doctypes (locate in custom\inputs).%% Version: 2008-01-08 - testing complete, moved to production.%% 2007-07-25 Disable check for "5.0 (Chestnut)" so% "5.2 (Maple and later") will work.% -AWE%------------------------------------------------------------------% ****** Start of Patch NoRepeatColumnhe

Has anyone noticed a change to the behavior of \t within a response()dialog in 6.0?In Editor 5.3 m110 the following:local status = response("Ido:\n\tAAAA\n\tBBBB\n\tCCCC\n\nProceed?\n\n","&Yes","&No");Produced a prompt that looked like:

Hello!I use Java (the plugin is made) for modifying the content of the opened XML/SGML files (Arbortext 5.2).How should I modify the color of the nodes (I mean programming mode)?As far as I'm concerned, the usage of _font nodes is forbidden (a-la <_font>text). At least it leads to errors in SGML.Then we should use processing instructions (PI). How should we create them?The standard Java DOM method createProcessingInstruction() does not work when we deal with SGML.I think that it's because of the different format of PIs in SGML and XML.Should we use Acl OID commands/functions?

Hello all,Are there Java / Arbortext configuration updates required in order to run Arbortext 5.4 with Java 7? After doing an upgrade from Java 6.30 to 7.5 I’m getting the follow errors starting up Arbortext 5.4.“Internal error: dl_load failed for C:\Program Files\Java\jre7\bin\client\jvm.dll”That error is followed by:“[A12281] Cannot create a Java virtual machine from “C:\Program Files\Java\jre7\bin\client\jvm.dll (-1).”Will Arbortext 5.4 run with Java 7? If so, how?Thanks!>> Randy--Randy McGarveyOperations Software ArchitectGeneral Code ♦ 800-836-8834

I'm moving some code into a 6.0 environment and I'm having problemsmanaging a menu item.I can't menu_add -before ".Edit.Delete Markup" in 6.0 m010I can menu_add -before ".Edit.Change Markup" no problem.response(menu_add(".Edit.Delete Markup")) produces empty message.response(menu_add(".Edit.Change Markup")) produces "ChangeMarkup" asexpected.Whassup?A search through the Editor install tree for DeleteMarkup leads me to$DeleteMarkupLabel but I can't find that defined anywhere ... just theplaces it is used.Why can't I menu_add -before Edit.Delete Markup?Or, if you don't know that, where is $DeleteMarkupLabel initialized?Or, maybe just some sympathy 😉-- Paul Nagai

Hi,I have recorded one macro in my desktop. I want to create same macro other computer, How can I move the macro's one computer to another computer?

Does anyone know if I can use an XSLT 2.0 engine in Arbortext Editor . I'm using Arbortext Editor 5.2, M050. If so, how I should replace/config the system. Thanks, Carolyn Helrin

We add lots of callouts to our illustrations and nearly always have to zoom in to each one to move the end of the leader line slightly away from the geometry to make it look cleaner.I want to do a macro to move callout lines away from geometry automatically, but I need to know the start and end points of the callout to do this. I presume that when you select a callout, Isodraw knows where the start and end points of the leader line are but I don't know how to access this information.Anyone know if it's possible?

Hi all,In case you weren't aware, wanted to let you know that we've released Arbortext 6.0 M050 and it's now available for download from www.ptc.com/support. This version primarily was for SPR fixes and minor enhancements.You can take a look at the release notes at http://www.ptc.com/view?im_dbkey=141362Thanks,Pushpinder

Hi,The Hotspots under Isodraw are delimited with green fine line.But when I look them under Isoview. the lines are red and very thick And I don't see the hotspot's names.Have you got a solution to set the hotspots ?Best regards

Hi,I need to put custom change marks in the page margin besidechanged content.I use a UFE with side-by-side alignment with a negative offset.This works for marks beside regular text, such as paragraphsand titles.But there are two problematic cases:1. Next to a list item the side-by-side layout interferes withthe proper indent of the list number and the following text.2. When the change mark is on a table row, the side-by-side doesnot seem to work (not too surprising).So, is there another way to put text in the margin that mightwork better?Environment: Styler 6.0 M040 (APP Engine)Thanks,Richard

Hi,I am updating a checkbox in a XUI document in Editor 6.0 m010: dlgitem_set($win, 'mycheckbox', 'VALUE', 1)The dialog visually updates as expected 100% of the time.Subsequent tests of that checkbox's state SOMEtimes report that it isunchecked.Has anyone seen behavior like this?-- Paul Nagai

Have numerous callouts that have the part name and the "long version" of the part number, i.e.WASHER(01-030, 79-21-11)would like to have a way to click on the callout, hit a macro or hit a button that quickly changes to the "short version" of the part numberWASHER(01-030)It will always be the same pattern. Find the comma, delete it and everthing after it until the paren.have been playing with:selecting the layer with callouts on itmaking it the only visible layerselecting only text that contains "("exporting selection as text filegoing to an outside text editor to do find&replaceimporting them back into IsoDrawGot to be a less klunky way to something so simple?

I am doing a macro to fine tune scaling of elements.We often bring parts of several drawings together and they are usually at different scales. The scale function is fine for the getting it nearly right, then we have to fine tune it. We tend to start with 99%, then 99.9% then 99.99% (or 101% etc if going the other way) to get it as near exact as required. Trouble is that each time the scale is changed, the scaling point has to be set again - and if you are zoomed into one of the edges of the scaled item, you have to zoom back to where you can set the scale point again (and enter the percentage) - then back again to the edge so you can see more clearly as it scales.The macros are just meant to make it a bit quicker to fine tune scaling and my toolbar has icons for the following:99.99% 99.9% 99% SET 101% 101.1% 101.01%The SET macro just prompts the user to pick a point on the drawing, and makes global x and y variables for the other macros to use as the scaling point.It works fine, but o

Hello,We recently upgraded to PE 5.4 M100 from 5.3 M040. I have a custom ACL function that have running on the PE server, that is kicked off by an HTTP request from a servlet.Anyway, this function ran just fine on the 5.3 PE server. Since upgrading to 5.4, I cannot get the function to run.It returns the following error to the diagnostic window:22:33:56 [http-8080-1] INFO e3.XHtmlErrorPage - (pid=7272) Error 0x80042201 source='Epic.Acl.1' desc='Error parsing command string:e3cessna::cleanup( "book","testpub", 'D:\Tomcat 6.0\temp\activ...[A11345] Undefined package name: e3cessna::cleanup(' msg='IDispatch error #8193'.Anyway, I have the app set up in the e3config.xml as follows:<allowedfunctions> <clientfunction pattern="e3apptest::testapp" type="acl"/> <clientfunction pattern="e3appsave::appsave" type="acl"/> <clientfunction pattern="e3cessna::*" type="acl"/> <clientfunction pattern="com.arbortext.*" type="java"/> <clientfunction pattern="E3AppTest" type=

As most of you know, some of the work I've been doing the past few years has been in support of the ASRL for the U.S. Army. This site allowed the downloading of various Army SGML/XML information (DTDs, schema, and style sheets). I was just told that until further notice, the ASRL (which has been operated by CSC) is to be turned off and no responses to queries will be handled. So if any of you folks are working with 40051 and need anything from the ASRL, GET IT NOW. As things change, I'll pass the word.Lynn

Hi all,Wanted to let you know that we've released Arbortext 6.0 M050 and it's now available for download from www.ptc.com/support.This version primarilywas for SPR fixes and minor enhancements.You can take a look at the release notes athttp://www.ptc.com/view?im_dbkey=141362Thanks,Pushpinder Toor