topic Re: ThisApplication.OpenDocumentsDisplay in Inventor Programming Forum

ThisApplication.OpenDocumentsDisplay

mikazakov — Thu, 07 Jan 2016 17:51:28 GMT

Hi,

What does object ThisApplication.OpenDocumentsDisplay?

I did not see its effect.

Re: ThisApplication.OpenDocumentsDisplay

Curtis_Waguespack — Thu, 07 Jan 2016 18:58:25 GMT

Hi mikazakov,

As far as I can tell, it controls the recent documents list:

I used this code to toggle it (using iLogic):

If ThisApplication.OpenDocumentsDisplay = True Then
ThisApplication.OpenDocumentsDisplay = False
Else
ThisApplication.OpenDocumentsDisplay = True
End If

I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you in all of your Inventor pursuits,
Curtis
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com

Re: ThisApplication.OpenDocumentsDisplay

MechMachineMan — Fri, 08 Jan 2016 13:26:26 GMT

Just a quick little tidbit.

I'm reading a book called Becoming a better programmer, but am not a programmer.

It suggests avoiding redundancy and keeping things simple and free of loops if possible, so to do a toggle for a boolean property, it suggests using:

ThisApplication.OpenDocumentsDisplay = Not ThisApplication.OpenDocumentsDisplay

It also creates less lines of code which means less to debug in the future!

Best of luck in your code escapades!

Re: ThisApplication.OpenDocumentsDisplay

Curtis_Waguespack — Fri, 08 Jan 2016 15:12:13 GMT

@MechMachineMan wrote:

Just a quick little tidbit.

I'm reading a book called Becoming a better programmer, but am not a programmer.

It suggests avoiding redundancy and keeping things simple and free of loops if possible, so to do a toggle for a boolean property, it suggests using:
ThisApplication.OpenDocumentsDisplay = Not ThisApplication.OpenDocumentsDisplay
It also creates less lines of code which means less to debug in the future!

Best of luck in your code escapades!

Thanks for the tip, Justin!

I just ordered that book (based on your recommendation), so hopefully it'll help me break some bad habits, no promises though.