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Hi!
I'm working on a project where I need to know when a part or an assembly has been redrawn. I'm using the notification PRO_MDL_DISPLAY_PRE so when someone Hide or Show a part or an assembly I receive a notification and I print the name and the type of the model by the notification:
//get and print the type of the given model
ProError getModelType(ProMdl model, ProMdlType* mdlType)
{
ProError err;
err = ProMdlTypeGet(model, mdlType) ;
if (err == PRO_TK_NO_ERROR)
{
Printf(" Model Type ");
if (*mdlType == PRO_MDL_UNUSED) ConnectorLog::log("PRO_MDL_UNUSED");
if (*mdlType == PRO_MDL_ASSEMBLY) ConnectorLog::log("PRO_MDL_ASSEMBLY");
if (*mdlType == PRO_MDL_PART) ConnectorLog::log("PRO_MDL_PART");
if (*mdlType == PRO_MDL_DRAWING) ConnectorLog::log("PRO_MDL_DRAWING");
if (*mdlType == PRO_MDL_3DSECTION) ConnectorLog::log("PRO_MDL_3DSECTION");
if (*mdlType == PRO_MDL_2DSECTION) ConnectorLog::log("PRO_MDL_2DSECTION");
if (*mdlType == PRO_MDL_LAYOUT) ConnectorLog::log("PRO_MDL_LAYOUT");
if (*mdlType == PRO_MDL_DWGFORM) ConnectorLog::log("PRO_MDL_DWGFORM");
if (*mdlType == PRO_MDL_MFG) ConnectorLog::log("PRO_MDL_MFG");
if (*mdlType == PRO_MDL_REPORT) ConnectorLog::log("PRO_MDL_REPORT");
if (*mdlType == PRO_MDL_MARKUP) ConnectorLog::log("PRO_MDL_MARKUP");
if (*mdlType == PRO_MDL_DIAGRAM) ConnectorLog::log("PRO_MDL_DIAGRAM");
Printf("\n");
}
return err;
}
//get and print the name of the given model
ProError getModelName(ProMdl model, char* name)
{
ProError err;
ProName w_name;
err = ProMdlNameGet(model, w_name);
if (err == PRO_TK_NO_ERROR)
{
ProWstringToString (name, w_name);
Printf( "Model Name: %s", name);
}
return err;
}
//the callback for when a model has been displayed
ProError UserTestNotification(ProMdl mdl_handle)
{
char name[PRO_LINE_SIZE] = "";
getModelName(mdl_handle, name);
ProMdlType MdlType = PRO_MDL_UNUSED;
getModelType(mdl_handle, &MdlType);
return PRO_TK_NO_ERROR;
}
//init the notification
extern "C" int user_initialize()
{
ProError err = PRO_TK_NO_ERROR;
ProMode mode = PRO_MODE_UNUSED;
ProModeCurrentGet(&mode);
if(mode != PRO_TK_BAD_CONTEXT)
{
ProError err = PRO_TK_NO_ERROR;
err = ProNotificationSet(PRO_MDL_DISPLAY_PRE,(ProFunction) UserTestNotification);
}
return(0);
}
the problem is that I always get the name of the root parent of my model and the type is always PRO_MDL_ASSEMBLY. Is it possible to receive the precise information that a part has been displayed?
Thank you very much!
Emilie
Emilie,
I tested similar code myself, it seems like that notification doesn't run recursively (aka, it doesn't run a component in a model). It only runs on the top-level model, regardless of which model or sub-component is changed.
From what I can tell, your best bet would be to build an array of the current state of every component in the model, save that array into memory, and then do a comparison of the current-state to the previous-state on every new model display change (using the notification). Problem is, that check could impact model performance depending on how large your models are.
Thanks,
Sully