If I am writing a library of tools to draw things, that library may be used from modal or modeless forms.
I would not want to put the document locking in the library, or would I?
Should I just be safe and always lock the document before drawing something?
Should I add a "running from modeless" param to every function to allow locking?
Its tricky because if I don't put in library, the tools that call the library must know when to lock.
Its obvious sometimes, but not always. Any advice on structuring this?
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Hi,
Yes, you need locking if you modify items within a loaded document.
No, you don't need locking if the command itself has the attribtue for locking/exclusive access.
No, you don't need locking if you are just reading some objects from your loaded document
No, you don't need locking if you modify some objects in a database (not loaded) in editor.
And the last point is the decission (at least for me) to not do a lock in every lib-function as in most function calls I transfer an objectid or an entity or a database as parameter, but never the document .... as I want my lib also working on just db-objects (and not loaded as documents).
I do the locking (and some init-sequence for a global error-handler/-messaging system) at the very early start of a function and the .dispose of it at the end.
my 2c
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thx for reply.
It seems odd to me, so far, that we must deal with locking.
I would expect that when we attempt to modify the database, it tries to lock it automatically.
I think what you mentioned about running on a database not open in the editor is the key.
You need a way to stop the regular interaction of the UI with a loaded drawing to draw stuff.
Seems like that could be handled in the background too though.
I have not seen enough examples that take advantage of not locking the document to see why its left up to us.
Any obvious reasons that come to mind?
thx
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