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Reading "Prompted Entry" Title Block info with VBA

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joeabberley
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‎05-11-2003 07:37 PM
‎05-11-2003 07:37 PM

Reading "Prompted Entry" Title Block info with VBA 

I've spent ages reading similar-ish posts, and made up some code to read the values from the title block on an idw.



Does it make any difference if the 'type' of the property feild is 'Prompted Entry' (I don't think it should)



I just want my VBA prog to read all the values in the titleblock. Here is the code to try and read one value, and then display it in a massage box:



    Dim oPropsets As PropertySets

    Set oPropsets = ThisApplication.ActiveDocument.PropertySets

    Dim oBlock As PropertySet

    Set oBlock = oPropsets("{D5CDD505-2E9C-101B-9397-08002B2CF9AE}")

    Dim oBlockProp As Property

    For Each oBlockProp In oBlock

    Select Case oBlockProp.Name

        Case "COMPANY"

            MsgBox oBlockProp.Value

    End Select

    Next



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joeabberley
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‎05-12-2003 08:00 PM
‎05-12-2003 08:00 PM 







I have been experimenting with all the ways I think people

have been doing this, and I can't get anything to work.

I would like to know if this is actually possible, or

am I just wasting time.



If there is an old drawing, with 'prompted entry' info

in the title block, can I run a macro that will read that

titleblock information and display it in a textbox?



If so how?



I would be very grateful if someone could help me with this



Thanks



Joe
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Anonymous
in reply to: joeabberley
‎05-12-2003 10:42 PM
‎05-12-2003 10:42 PM

The value of a prompted entry is in the FormatedText property of the
titleblocks TextBox. I use the following function to retrieve the value for
a specified promted text.

Public Function IvGetPromptedValue(ByRef oTbl As Inventor.TitleBlock, _
sPromptName As String) As String
'get value of specified prompted property from titleblock and return it
'with Function. If property can't be found return "-1"
'
'references:
'mXML.ParseXML

Dim oTextBoxes As Inventor.TextBoxes
Dim lBox As Long

'get textboxes of titleblock
Set oTextBoxes = oTbl.Definition.Sketch.TextBoxes

'iterate through text boxes and find value
For lBox = oTextBoxes.Count To 1 Step -1
If Left(GetFormattedText(oTextBoxes(lBox)), 😎 = "" Then
Dim sValue As String
sValue = ParseXML(oTextBoxes(lBox).FormattedText, "Prompt")

If UCase(sValue) = UCase(sPromptName) Then
IvGetPromptedValue = oTbl.GetResultText(oTextBoxes(lBox))
Exit Function
End If
End If
Next

IvGetPromptedValue = "-1"
End Function


Private Function GetFormattedText(ByRef oTextBox As Inventor.TextBox) As
String
'get value of formatted text property. If error return error string
On Error Resume Next

GetFormattedText = oTextBox.FormattedText

If Err Then
Err.Clear
GetFormattedText = ""
End If
End Function

-Frank
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joeabberley
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‎05-13-2003 12:10 AM
‎05-13-2003 12:10 AM 





Thanks very much for the help, but as I'm a bit new to VBA

I am very frustrated with myself as I cannot understand

everything in the code.



I'm used to using subs, and am a bit unsure about functions.

I'm not sure what the 'ByRef oTbl As Inventor.titleblock'

is refering to in the arguments for the first function.

And is the 'ParseXML' important, as I can't find any

reference to it in my VBA help. How do the two functions

relate to each other, ie which on do I call.

And Im having trouble calling the functions, I'm not sure

what to put in the argument list.



(I'm worried I put the wrong thing in my original question,

I want to read the values from the titleblock, and just

use them elsewhere. As long as I can get a set of text

strings containing the values in the title block, i'll be

happy)



Thanks for the previous help
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Anonymous
in reply to: joeabberley
‎05-13-2003 03:23 AM
‎05-13-2003 03:23 AM

- You can use a function the same way that you use
a sub.  In this case a function is used because it can return a value
to the calling statement.

 

- ByRef passes the address of the argument
instead of the value, which lets you change the variables actual
value.

 

- oTbl As Inventor.Titleblock is the titleblock
object which represents an instance of a title block on a sheet.
face=Arial size=2>     

 

- ParseXML is a function that I've got from
somebody on the net, that returns the value of an XML string.

 

The following code returns the value for a prompted
property of a title block on the first sheet of a drawing document.  Let me
know if you need more information on how to extract the file property values of
the title block.

 


Frank

 

 

'start
code========================================================================

Option Explicit


Const xs = "<"
Const xe = ">"
Const
xend = "</"

 


Sub test()
    Dim oDoc As
DrawingDocument
    Dim oTbl As
TitleBlock
   
    Set oDoc =
ThisApplication.ActiveDocument
    Set oTbl =
oDoc.Sheets(1).TitleBlock
   
    'Name of
prompted property that you extract the value for

    Dim sPropName As String
    sPropName
= "<replace this with your property name>"
   

    Dim sPropValue As String
    sPropValue
= IvGetPromptedValue(oTbl, sPropName)
   

    MsgBox "Prompted Property" & vbCrLf & vbCrLf
& sPropName & " = " & sPropValue, vbOKOnly
End Sub

 

Public Function IvGetPromptedValue(ByRef oTbl As Inventor.TitleBlock,
_
                                  
sPromptName As String) As String
'get value of specified prompted property
from titleblock and return it
'with Function. If property can't be found
return "-1"
'
'references:
'mXML.ParseXML
   

    Dim oTextBoxes As
Inventor.TextBoxes
    Dim lBox As Long
   

    'get textboxes of titleblock
    Set
oTextBoxes = oTbl.Definition.Sketch.TextBoxes
   

    'iterate through text boxes and find
value
    For lBox = oTextBoxes.Count To 1 Step
-1
        If
Left(GetFormattedText(oTextBoxes(lBox)), 😎 = "<Prompt>"
Then
            Dim
sValue As
String
           
sValue = ParseXML(oTextBoxes(lBox).FormattedText,
"Prompt")
               

            If
UCase(sValue) = UCase(sPromptName)
Then
               
IvGetPromptedValue =
oTbl.GetResultText(oTextBoxes(lBox))
               
Exit
Function
           
End If
        End
If
    Next
   
   
IvGetPromptedValue = "-1"
End Function

 

Private Function GetFormattedText(ByRef oTextBox As Inventor.TextBox) As
String
'get value of formatted text property. If error return error
string
    On Error Resume Next
   

    GetFormattedText =
oTextBox.FormattedText
   
    If Err
Then
       
Err.Clear
        GetFormattedText =
"<Application-defined or object-defined error>"
    End
If
End Function

 

Private Function ParseXML(ByVal XMLSource As String,
_
    ByVal XMLName As String, _
   
Optional Instance As Integer = 1, _
    Optional Default As
Variant = "") As String

 

    Dim x As Integer, y As Integer, XMLStart As Integer,
XMLTag As String, c As String
    Dim XMLTagEnd As
String
    Dim XMLMatch As Integer, XMLEnd As Integer,
XMLLength As Integer
   
    XMLLength =
Len(XMLSource)
    XMLTag = xs + XMLName +
xe
    XMLTagEnd = xend + XMLName + xe
   

    '*** Find the start of the requested
intstance...
    XMLStart = 1
    For x = 1
To Instance
        y = InStr(XMLStart,
XMLSource, XMLTag)
        If y >=
XMLStart
Then
           
XMLStart = y + Len(XMLTag)
       
Else
           
ParseXML =
Default
           
Exit Function
        End
If
    Next
   
    '***
Find the end of the instance...
    XMLEnd =
XMLStart
    XMLMatch = 1
    Do Until
XMLMatch = 0
        c = Mid(XMLSource,
XMLEnd, Len(XMLTagEnd))
        If c =
XMLTagEnd
Then
           
XMLMatch = XMLMatch - 1
        ElseIf
Left(c, 1) = xs
Then
           
XMLMatch = XMLMatch + 1
        End
If
        XMLEnd = XMLEnd +
1
        If XMLEnd = XMLLength
Then
           
ParseXML =
Default
           
Exit Function
        End
If
    Loop
   
   
ParseXML = Mid(XMLSource, XMLStart, XMLEnd - XMLStart - 1)

 

End Function

'end
code========================================================================

 

 


style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
 

 

Thanks very much for the help, but as I'm a bit new to VBA 

I am very frustrated with myself as I cannot understand 

everything in the code. 
I'm used to using subs, and am a bit unsure about functions. 

I'm not sure what the 'ByRef oTbl As Inventor.titleblock' 

is refering to in the arguments for the first function. 

And is the 'ParseXML' important, as I can't find any 

reference to it in my VBA help. How do the two functions 

relate to each other, ie which on do I call. 

And Im having trouble calling the functions, I'm not sure 

what to put in the argument list. 
(I'm worried I put the wrong thing in my original question, 

I want to read the values from the titleblock, and just 

use them elsewhere. As long as I can get a set of text 

strings containing the values in the title block, i'll be 

happy) 
Thanks for the previous help
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joeabberley
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in reply to: joeabberley
‎05-13-2003 06:08 PM
‎05-13-2003 06:08 PM 





Thanks for all the help. I have finally managed to get the titleblock info!



I used the suggest code from Lian Xie (thank you!) to get the values I wanted. I suppose it will be useful if I post my successful solution, just in case anyone else is interested:



Public Sub TitleBlock()

    

    Dim oDoc As DrawingDocument

    

    Set oDoc = ThisApplication.ActiveDocument

    Dim oTitle As Inventor.TitleBlock

    Set oTitle = oDoc.ActiveSheet.TitleBlock

    

    Dim oTextBox As TextBox

    Dim oTextBoxes As TextBoxes

    Dim sData As String

    

    Set oTextBoxes = oTitle.Definition.Sketch.TextBoxes

    

    For Each oTextBox In oTextBoxes

      sData = oTitle.GetResultText(oTextBox)

      If oTextBox.text = "COMPANY" Then

      Company = sData

      ElseIf oTextBox.text = "SALES ORDER No" Then

      SalesOrderNo = sData

      ElseIf oTextBox.text = "TITLE LINE 1" Then

      TitleOne = sData

      ElseIf oTextBox.text = "TITLE LINE 2" Then

      TitleTwo = sData

      ElseIf oTextBox.text = "DRAWING NUMBER" Then

      DrgNoOne = sData

      ElseIf oTextBox.text = "DRAWING NUMBER 2 " Then

      DrgNoTwo = sData

      ElseIf oTextBox.text = "DRAWN BY" Then

      Author = sData

      End If

    Next

End Sub



Thats it!



(Note: if anyone who understands this is reading, I can't post this using the via newsgroup, using outlook newsreader. For some reason it wont accept my username and password for the discussion.autodesk.com server. This username and password work fine for the web based version...?)



Again, Thanks All



Joe
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Anonymous
in reply to: joeabberley
‎05-14-2003 02:09 AM
‎05-14-2003 02:09 AM

There was just a similar discussion in the Inventor 6 Newsgroup.

Have you tried just going here
http://discussion.autodesk.com/WebX?14@78.jFQNakmspr3.317952@.ee93814
and clicking on the group under the Newsreader column? If you are able to read but not
post it may be some sort of firewall issue at your company?

--
Kent
Assistant Moderator
Autodesk Discussion Forum Moderator Program


"joeabberley" wrote in message news:f16292c.4@WebX.maYIadrTaRb...

(Note: if anyone who understands this is reading, I can't post this using the via
newsgroup, using outlook newsreader. For some reason it wont accept my username and
password for the discussion.autodesk.com server. This username and password work fine for
the web based version...?) Again, Thanks All Joe
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