Heidi

[#1]

Anybody knows how to draw a dwf file with heidi??
right now I want to draw dwf file and add/update/remove hyperlink.
I know there are to toolkit: heidi & dwftk6 which can read/rewrite dwf file.

but anybody give me advice?

thanks.

[#2]

Unless you are a serious C++ programmer and are
familiar with the Microsoft Visual Studio 7 development environment, this is not
for you.

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Anybody
knows how to draw a dwf file with heidi??
right now I want to draw dwf
file and add/update/remove hyperlink.
I know there are to toolkit: heidi
& dwftk6 which can read/rewrite dwf file.

but anybody give me advice?

thanks.

[#3]

thank Soctt sheppard.
frankly I don't worry about the skill set of c++/vc7, the problem is whether it's possible to draw & modify the bookmark (hyperlink) from dwf file with the Heidi and dwftk6 toolkit? or how difficulty it is?
I'm not familiar with the toolkit.

Thanks.

[#4]

The toolkit would allow you to:

open output DWF file

open input DWF file

read input DWF file

while not end of input DWF file

   if primitive = URL change
it

   write output DWF file

end if

close input DWF file

close output DWF file

The above is pseudo code, but you get my drift. You
would only need Heidi if you wanted to create your own viewer. For
reading/writing DWF primitives to a file, you just need the DWF toolkit. The C++
code and specifications (as HTML) files are in a zip file on the Autodesk FTP
site.

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thank
Soctt sheppard.
frankly I don't worry about the skill set of c++/vc7, the
problem is whether it's possible to draw & modify the bookmark (hyperlink)
from dwf file with the Heidi and dwftk6 toolkit? or how difficulty it is?

I'm not familiar with the toolkit.

Thanks.

[#5]

Hi, Scott Sheppard,
I appreciated your kindly help!
Yes I'v got the two toolkits from autocad ftp site.
I know DWF toolkit could read/rewrite the file.
Actually, The critical thing is how to create a own dwf viewer with HEIDI toolkit that can view dwf file and let user add/update URL into the DWF file from the viewer? I have to do it as there is only DWF file, and not AUTOCAD either.

[#6]

or whether there is another better way to draw the dwf file? for instance, use opendwg? as I know, the opendwg toolkit is not free fully.

it's really urgent for me to solve ASAP.

[#7]

You may want to write an app that encompasses AEV.
You can put a callback when a user selects an URL and ask if they want to change
it rather than navigate it. Then you would open the DWF, write the old contents
(except for the old URL), write the new URL, and close the file.

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or
whether there is another better way to draw the dwf file? for instance, use
opendwg? as I know, the opendwg toolkit is not free fully.

it's really urgent for me to solve ASAP.

[#8]

You need only the dwf toolkit (freely
disrupted) to create dwf files. The toolkit comes with documentation and samples
that should help get you started. After you create your dwf files you can use
Autodesk Express Viewer to view the dwf files. This is the path that I would
suggest as writing a viewer is a significant amount for you of work and Autodesk
is committed to free DWF viewing.

Ben

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or
whether there is another better way to draw the dwf file? for instance, use
opendwg? as I know, the opendwg toolkit is not free fully.

it's really urgent for me to solve ASAP.

[#9]

Hi, Scott Sheppard,
It's a great ideal that handle the callback function to update the URL!
but there are two questions:

1) so far I can't find out how to handle the event : OnExecuteURL in
VC/VB project.
For AVE, there are two important OLE DLLs:
AdPageView.dll, which contains the IAdPageViewer/IAdPage/IAdPaper, etc
and event also.

AdView.dll, which contains the IAdView, and can open a DWF file by set
the SOURCEPATH properties.

but I found there are many methods or properties are hidden though I can
view them by OLE VIEWER tool.

I'm sure the the Viewer properties of IAdView contains the IAdPageViewer
instance, so we can get the instance of IAdPageViewer.
it means we only can the instance of IAdPageViewer by IAdView instance
so far.

hence, I don't think we can handle the event of IAdPageViewr's.

Do you have any sample code with VB or VC to handle event?


2) how can I get the correct coordinate in DWF when user's mouse click?
if there is not a function in AVE's DLL that support coordinate
transformation, no way to locate a new URL to the position what user want.

Thanks a lot!!

Chen huaping


Scott Sheppard wrote:
> You may want to write an app that encompasses AEV. You can put a
> callback when a user selects an URL and ask if they want to change it
> rather than navigate it. Then you would open the DWF, write the old
> contents (except for the old URL), write the new URL, and close the file.
>
> "tioman" > wrote in
> message news:f176f03.4@WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> or whether there is another better way to draw the dwf file? for
> instance, use opendwg? as I know, the opendwg toolkit is not free
> fully.
>
> it's really urgent for me to solve ASAP.
>

[#10]

Hi, Ben,
thanks,
I'm trying with this approach. but the AVE api doc is too simple.


Ben Cochran wrote:
> You need only the dwf toolkit (freely disrupted) to create dwf files.
> The toolkit comes with documentation and samples that should help get
> you started. After you create your dwf files you can use Autodesk
> Express Viewer to view the dwf files. This is the path that I would
> suggest as writing a viewer is a significant amount for you of work and
> Autodesk is committed to free DWF viewing.
>
> Ben
>
> "tioman" > wrote in
> message news:f176f03.4@WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> or whether there is another better way to draw the dwf file? for
> instance, use opendwg? as I know, the opendwg toolkit is not free
> fully.
>
> it's really urgent for me to solve ASAP.
>