OTK, PROTK. Selection in the background

[amedina-2]

I want to make dialog like for creating planar constraint, but can't understand how to set filters to wfcSession selection or make call wfcSession->Select(wfcSelectionOptions_ptr) in background with ActionListener like "OnSelect" or something. Can anyone help me with this issue?

creating planar constraint dialog image :http://joxi.ru/v29l1M0sgYEamG

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[Eike_Hauptmann]

wfcSession->Select is perfect for this. What do you want to select ?

AFAIK :

1. Create an option_ptr

pfcSelectionOptions_ptr option_ptr = pfcSelectionOptions::Create("String Identifier");

Creo Parametric Database Item	String Identifier	ModelItemType
Datum point	point	pfcITEM_POINT
Datum axis	axis	pfcITEM_AXIS
Datum plane	datum	pfcITEM_SURFACE
Coordinate system datum	csys	pfcITEM_COORD_SYS
Feature	feature	pfcITEM_FEATURE
Edge (solid or datum surface)	edge	pfcITEM_EDGE
Edge (solid only)	sldedge	pfcITEM_EDGE
Edge (datum surface only)	qltedge	pfcITEM_EDGE
Datum curve	curve	pfcITEM_CURVE
Composite curve	comp_crv	pfcITEM_CURVE
Surface (solid or quilt)	surface	pfcITEM_SURFACE
Surface (solid)	sldface	pfcITEM_SURFACE
Surface (datum surface)	qltface	pfcITEM_SURFACE
Quilt	dtmqlt	pfcITEM_QUILT
Dimension	dimension	pfcITEM_DIMENSION
Reference dimension	ref_dim	pfcITEM_REF_DIMENSION
Integer parameter	ipar	pfcITEM_DIMENSION
Part	part	N/A
Part or subassembly	prt_or_asm	N/A
Assembly component model	component	N/A
Component or feature	membfeat	pfcITEM_FEATURE
Detail symbol	dtl_symbol	pfcITEM_DTL_SYM_INSTANCE
Note	any_note	pfcITEM_NOTE, pfcITEM_DTL_NOTE
Draft entity	draft_ent	pfcITEM_DTL_ENTITY
Table	dwg_table	pfcITEM_TABLE
Table cell	table_cell	pfcITEM_TABLE
Drawing view	dwg_view	N/A

2. Do your select and get back your pfcselection_ptr.

3. Undefined maxlength

int length = sel_ptr.getarraysize();

for (int i = 0; i < length; i++) {

  sel_ptr.get(i);

}

3. Defined maxlength

sel_ptr.get(0);

4. Cast it to the stuff you say he can select. If it's more than one you need to check the type.

Br,

Eike

PS: Code is written down without testing it ... so please check it before you run it ^.^

[amedina-2]

thanks, I tried "wfcSession->Select", but still have default dialog appears, I want to do something like Creo Simulate planar constraint dialog reference selection.

Here some code:

pfcSession_ptr

pSession = pfcGetProESession();

wfcWSession_ptr wSession = wfcWSession::cast(pSession);

wfcSelectionEnvironmentOptions_ptr wfcSelEnvOptions = wfcSelectionEnvironmentOptions::create();

wfcSelectionEnvironmentOption_ptr ptropt = wfcSelectionEnvironmentOption::Create(wfcSELECT_HIDE_SEL_DLG, 1);

wfcSelEnvOptions->append(ptropt);

wfcWSelectionOptions_ptr wOpt= wfcWSelectionOptions::Create("surface",-1,wfcSelEnvOptions);

pfcSelectionOptions_ptr pOpt = pfcSelectionOptions::softcast(wOpt);

wSession->Select(pOpt);

[Eike_Hauptmann]

One more Idea ...

If you use the std. select and you are in a Program that is async. You need to know how the window name ist (collect it by mapkey) and it could be that you can use ProDialogHide() or something like that on it. But I don't know if it reacts after that like it should.

It could be that this isn't possible at that moment and crashes Creo ... so I don't know ... just an idea.

Or you live with the small Dialog, because it's std. PTC behaivior ^.^

Br,

Eike

[amedina-2]

thanks, I'll try ProDialogHide(), may be any ideas how to set up filters without using wSession->Select or ProSelect() ?

[amedina-2 · Accepted solution]

found that if set up to choose one item than dialog hide correctly

pfcSession_ptr pSession = pfcGetProESession();

wfcWSession_ptr wSession = wfcWSession::cast(pSession);

wfcSelectionEnvironmentOptions_ptr wfcSelEnvOptions = wfcSelectionEnvironmentOptions::create();

wfcSelectionEnvironmentOption_ptr selEnvOpt = wfcSelectionEnvironmentOption::Create(wfcSELECT_HIDE_SEL_DLG, 1);

wfcSelEnvOptions->append(selEnvOpt);

wfcWSelectionOptions_ptr wSelOpt = wfcWSelectionOptions::Create(choosenType, 1, wfcSelEnvOptions);

pfcSelectionOptions_ptr pSelOpt = pfcSelectionOptions::softcast(wSelOpt);

pfcSelections_ptr pSelections =  wSession->Select(pSelOpt);

[Eike_Hauptmann]

Pretty cool : ) Thanks for sharing