Identifying the object you're hovering over

[Anonymous]

Hi all,

I'm inserting blocks into my drawing using a jig (thanks to cupocad) and it
works like a charm. However, I these blocks need additional actions. I'm
breaking lines/polylines to make room for the blocks. Now at first I
identified the object that needs to be broken by using a
selectCrossingWindow call and that worked quite nicely. At least I thought
so, until the testers inserted blocks at crossings of lines.

Now during the selection of the insertionpoint, objects you hover over
(i.e. lines) get highlighted. Is there any way to determine what object is
highlighted so I can store the id of that object in my jig? Idealy this
happens during the Sampler function of the jig which I override.

Rinze

[Anonymous]

Check recent posts for 'PointMonitor tooltip example'. It will show you how
to get the
entity under the cursor.

"Rinze" wrote in message news:6233215@discussion.autodesk.com...
Hi all,

I'm inserting blocks into my draw...

[arcticad]

http://www.caddzone.com/PointMonitorClient.cs

[Anonymous]

You can use the Editor's PointMonitor event to see what
objects are under the pickbox.

See this sample:

http://www.caddzone.com/PointMonitorClient.cs

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"Rinze" wrote in message news:6233215@discussion.autodesk.com...
Hi all,

I'm inserting blocks into my draw...

[Anonymous]

arcticad wrote:
> http://www.caddzone.com/PointMonitorClient.cs

Thanks, it's an interesting piece of code, but it doesn't exactly do what I
want. I specifically need the entity that's highlighted. This code gives me
the entity the snapping part of the cursor is over.

I draw 2 lines as a simple cross (+ sign). I echo the id of the entity I'm
hovering over as per example of the pointmonitor. This works nicely until I
come to the point where they intersect. I position the pointer just outside
the intersection, but close enough to let it snap to the intersection. Then
I always get the same id (the last drawn line) regardless of which line is
currently highlighted.

Rinze

[Anonymous]

I found the solution, I need to hook into the rollover event instead of the
pointmonitor. But the pointmonitor at least pointed me in the right
direction (pun intended :))

Rinze

[Anonymous]

Sorry, there may be an error in my example.

It may be that the entity that's highlighted is the *last*
FullSubentityPath, rather than the first, as I noted. You can verify that
with some testing, and I do believe there is some consistency with regards
to that, so if you need more than just the entity (as the rollover event
gives you), then you can still use the PointMonitor event, and get the
correct object.

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"Rinze" wrote in message news:6234000@discussion.autodesk.com...
arcticad wrote:
> http://www.caddzone.com/...

[Anonymous]

Tony Tanzillo wrote:
> Sorry, there may be an error in my example.
>
> It may be that the entity that's highlighted is the *last*
> FullSubentityPath, rather than the first, as I noted. You can verify that
> with some testing, and I do believe there is some consistency with regards
> to that, so if you need more than just the entity (as the rollover event
> gives you), then you can still use the PointMonitor event, and get the
> correct object.
>

I found that hooking into the RollOver event does exactly what I want and
the code is basically the same as doing it for the PointMonitor. I am
keeping the PointMonitor example because I might be needing it for other
functions (info on the object it's snapping to or something).

So your example is not wasted 🙂

[bert.vanpeteghem]

So you are one of those 3 visitors per month on my blog :). Thanks for the shout 🙂