How to remove an old drawing format table when changing a drawing format?

[jzwijsen]

When you change the format of an existing drawing with ProDrawingFormatAdd(), the tables of the old drawing format remain on the drawing.

Any ideas how I can get rid of them? I was thinking about using a drawing table visiting function and perhaps finding out what the parent of the table is?

Regards,

Jan

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[jzwijsen]

I got several answers (thanks) all giving the same solution: iterate through all the tables , call the function ProDwgtableIsFromFormat() to determine if the table should be deleted.

Now I run into a new problem: I use a table visiting function, but the command ProDwgtableDelete causes the visiting to stop after the first table has been deleted.

When I blank out the ProDwgtableDeletecommand I can notice in the debugger that then all tables are being visited.

I will now work around the problem by trying ProTablesCollect instead of the visiting function, but I was wondering if anybody had experienced the same problem.

Code:

err = ProDrawingTableVisit(dwgptr->drw, (ProDwgtableVisitAction) remove_table, NULL , (ProAppData) NULL);

..

ProError remove_table(ProDwgtable *table_ptr, ProError filter_status, ProAppData data)
{
..

err = ProDwgtableDelete(table_ptr, 1);
return(PRO_TK_NO_ERROR);
}