subWorldDraw Question....

[ChaosInACT]

I'm trying to get some color into my world draw 🙂

This is a custom derived AcDbPolyline object.

I'm working with this for simplicity:

Adesk::BooleanBCHF_LotObject::subWorldDraw(AcGiWorldDraw*mode){

assertReadEnabled();

AcDbPolyline::subWorldDraw(mode);

TCHARbuffer[255];

_stprintf(buffer,_T("\nLOT: %d"),m_LotNo);

mode->subEntityTraits().setColor(2);

mode->geometry().text(m_TxtMspace,normal(),vec.kXAxis,m_TxtSizeMspace,1.0,0.0,buffer);

return(AcDbPolyline::subWorldDraw(mode));

}

Now, when I set subentity traits to 2 here:

mode->subEntityTraits().setColor(2);

the polyline AND the text turns yellow. I really would like them different...so the polyline is say 1 and text 2 (just an example) or I could even pin them to layers, etc. perfect would be everything is set to a color except the polyline itself, which reacts to layer....

any ideas? short of deriving an entity and remaking polylines from scratch?

[owenwengerd · Accepted solution]

What happens if you remove the second call to AcDbPolyline::subWorldDraw()?

[ChaosInACT]

*desperately tries to see second call...*

do you mean the return call here:

return(AcDbPolyline::subWorldDraw(mode));

?

otherwise there is only one:

assertReadEnabled();

AcDbPolyline::subWorldDraw(mode);

though I admit I haven't tried removing the return. the inital DBX wizard put it in there and I left it...

[ChaosInACT]

suffering sucotash!

Great advice my friend!

for those (like me) that didnt' just try this in the firstplace cause it's a return,

return true;

works fine, and puts my base poly on layer and rest on forced behavior..

Excellent....