Hello,
I am trying to modify an attribute value in a block which I can select it on screen. The question is: when selecting the block, if the entity I pick is an attribute part of the block, can I get the attribute's tag? What I am trying to do is to update a revision block, changing one particular value but the attribute's tag it is not the same it can be different from drawing to drawing.
Thanks for your suggestions.
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You can use Editor.GetNestedEntity() to allow user to directly pick an AttributeReference inside a BlockReference. Then update the Attributereference
Norman Yuan
Yuan,
About the getnestedentity()
My situation:
I'm standing in paperspace. This has one vp.
Can i use the above method to select an entity in the vp wich i've not opend. So i need to select an entity(drawn in modelspace) while standing in paperspace. I need the to get xrecord information so i can automate my annotation.
Hope you understand my problem.
Otherwise please let me know.
Kind regard,
Irvin
Here is the sample code(might need some adjusment): whatever text I have in the clipboard I'll paste it into attribute:
<CommandMethod("44")> _ Public Sub UpdateAttributeValue() Dim doc As Document = Application.DocumentManager.MdiActiveDocument Dim ed As Editor = doc.Editor Dim rs As PromptNestedEntityResult = ed.GetNestedEntity(vbLf & "Select attribute: ") Dim sTemp As String = String.Empty sTemp = My.Computer.Clipboard.GetText If sTemp = String.Empty Then MsgBox("There is no text in clipboard. Please copy some..") Return End If If rs.Status = PromptStatus.OK Then Dim oid As ObjectId = rs.ObjectId Using tr As Transaction = doc.TransactionManager.StartTransaction() Dim ent As Entity = DirectCast(tr.GetObject(oid, OpenMode.ForRead), Entity) If TypeOf ent Is AttributeReference Then Dim attref As AttributeReference = DirectCast(ent, AttributeReference) attref.UpgradeOpen() attref.TextString = sTemp End If tr.Commit() End Using End If End Sub
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