Hi Allan,
I had a similar issue with a drawing. There was an issue where the code was not working in drawing mode when the drawing was opened from J-Link but it was working when the drawing was the current model.
In Toolkit we can solved the when we play the mapkey "Windows activate -> Crtl-A" but in J-Link is this not possible because we do not have functionality corresponding to the Toolkit function ProMacroExecute() - which synchronize the mapkey executed Session.runMacro() will load only the mapkey in the Creo Program stack and the mapkey will be executed first when the focus is back to UI. Ok there is the dirty solution that mapkey will call a button which continue the program but is not worth to discuss it here further.
So in my case I used some code like this:
public class TryBody
{
public TryBody(Session inSession) {
////////////////////////////////////////////////
Drawing drw=null;
String LOG_FILE = "test_log.txt";
Logger l = new Logger( LOG_FILE );
String MOD_NAME="test_dawing.drw";
l.write("===============================================");
l.write("======== TEST LOGGER FILE Issue =======");
l.write("===============================================");
try {
inSession.GetCurrentWindow().Activate();
ModelDescriptor proeModelDescriptor=pfcModel.ModelDescriptor_CreateFromFileName(MOD_NAME);
proeModelDescriptor.SetPath(".\\data");
drw=(Drawing) inSession.GetCurrentModel();
if(drw==null)
{
Log.write("WARNING Error no current model:" );
drw=(Drawing) inSession.RetrieveModelWithOpts(proeModelDescriptor,pfcSession.RetrieveModelOptions_Create());
drw.Display();
//Make sure that the drawing is displayed...
Thread.sleep(1000);
}
if(drw !=null)
{
l.write("========testDrawingIssue will start ==================");
testDrawingIssue((Model) drw,l);
l.write("======= testDrawingIssue() finished ==================");
}
} catch (jxthrowable x)
{
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
x.printStackTrace();
} catch (Exception e)
{
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
finally {
l.write("===============================================");
l.write("======== END =======");
l.write("===============================================");
try{inSession.GetCurrentWindow().SetURL (inSession.GetCurrentDirectory()+LOG_FILE);}
catch (Exception e1) {JOptionPane.showMessageDialog ( null,"<p> EXCEPTION in inSession.GetCurrentWindow(): "+e1+" <br>");}
}
/////////////////////////////////
}
So what I did try here is that when the drawing model is not the current model (here is not relevant if drawing or an assembly) The important part is that we will use another function sequnece to display the model and will also wait for a second (sleep). In my case was this the solution. May be, this could help also in your case.
Another approach is to create a new window . (this means a second windows to display model - later if you want you can close the old window)
com.ptc.pfc.pfcWindow.Window current_window = null;
try {
inSession.GetCurrentWindow().Activate();
ModelDescriptor proeModelDescriptor=pfcModel.ModelDescriptor_CreateFromFileName(MOD_NAME);
proeModelDescriptor.SetPath(".\\customer_data");
current_model= inSession.GetCurrentModel();
if(current_model==null)
{
Log.write("WARNING Error no current model:" );
}
else
{
new_model = inSession.RetrieveModelWithOpts(proeModelDescriptor,pfcSession.RetrieveModelOptions_Create());
Thread.sleep(500);
}
if(new_model !=null)
{
l.write("========TEST HERE THE CUSTOMERS ISSSUE ==================");
com.ptc.pfc.pfcWindow.Window my_window=inSession.CreateModelWindow((Model) new_model);
if(my_window != null)
{ my_window.Repaint();
my_window.Refresh();
my_window.Activate();
current_window=my_window;
}
l.write("======= OK customer Test =======================");
}
} catch (jxthrowable x)
....
