topic Re: UpdateFromGlobal style crashes in Inventor Programming Forum

UpdateFromGlobal style crashes

Anonymous — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 07:14:00 GMT

I am trying to update styles that are not up to date by using the UpdateFromGlobal method, but Inventor crashes with catastrophic failure and closes.

What I do is loop through all styles from DrawingStylesManager and check the UpToDate property. If the style is not up to date I call the UpdateFromGlobal method.

What's wrong with this?

Re: UpdateFromGlobal style crashes

Anonymous — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:06:35 GMT

You need to add a check to see whether the style
exists locally as well as in the library. The 'UpdateFromGlobal' call makes
sense only for such styles. The code should look like this:

Sub UpdateFromGlobal()


    Dim oDoc As DrawingDocument
    Set
oDoc = ThisApplication.ActiveDocument


    Dim oStyle As Style
    For Each oStyle
In oDoc.StylesManager.Styles


        If oStyle.StyleLocation =
kBothStyleLocation
Then
            If
Not oStyle.UpToDate
Then

oStyle.UpdateFromGlobal

End If
        End
If
    Next

End Sub

Sanjay-

Re: UpdateFromGlobal style crashes

Anonymous — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 06:27:15 GMT

Thanks for answering. I was doing exactly as you said before - checking if the style needs updating and if the location equals kBothStyleLocation. It still crashes on any kind of drawing style that needs updating. The error that I get is:

Catastrophic failure (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8000FFFF (E_UNEXPECTED))

and it happens only on drawing styles and most of all causes Inventor to close immediately. I really can not see what I am doing wrong.

As additional info I am opening drawings in hidden mode and I am using C# to write my add-in.

Re: UpdateFromGlobal style crashes

Anonymous — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:12:08 GMT

I'm not sure what could be going wrong. Try opening
the drawing visible to see if that makes a difference (there are some known
issues working with invisible drawing documents).

Sanjay-

Re: UpdateFromGlobal style crashes

Anonymous — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 06:37:44 GMT

Seems like when document opened visible the UpdateFromGlobal works fine. Hmm ... i really needed for the document to be invisible.

As I see the Style&Standard support in API is really limited; maybe Autodesk will think about improving this in a later version.