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Revisit

cgay — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 20:42:39 GMT

Referring back to my original message:
"Selection Set with relational filter" posted on:
Aug/03/05 - 13:09 (EDT)

http://discussion.autodesk.com/thread.jspa?threadID=419571

I had kind of hoped this problem would have been addressed in Service Pack 1 for AutoCAD 2006, but it was not. Will this ever be fixed, or do I need to go with Tony Tanzillo's fix and reference AutoCAD ActiveX Libraries as well? I am trying to NOT have a reference to AutoCAD's ActiveX libraries at all.
If this problem will never be fixed could you (Autodesk) give us an example using P/Invoke?

Thanks,
CG

Oh yeah, Tony, thanks for your help.

Re: Revisit

Anonymous — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 03:06:04 GMT

Yes, it will be fixed. Unfortunately, it didn't make it into the SP. Service
packs have an extremely high triage bar. I recommend that you use the
workarounds posted in the meantime.

Albert

wrote in message news:4948509@discussion.autodesk.com...
Referring back to my original message:
"Selection Set with relational filter" posted on:
Aug/03/05 - 13:09 (EDT)

http://discussion.autodesk.com/thread.jspa?threadID=419571

I had kind of hoped this problem would have been addressed in Service Pack 1
for AutoCAD 2006, but it was not. Will this ever be fixed, or do I need to
go with Tony Tanzillo's fix and reference AutoCAD ActiveX Libraries as well?
I am trying to NOT have a reference to AutoCAD's ActiveX libraries at all.
If this problem will never be fixed could you (Autodesk) give us an example
using P/Invoke?

Thanks,
CG

Oh yeah, Tony, thanks for your help.

Re: Revisit

Anonymous — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 03:58:52 GMT

A non-ActiveX solution using P/Invoke is possible, but not
trivial. That is because the managed selection set is not
like the unmanged or 'native' selection set.

To do it, you must call acedSSGet() directly through P/Invoke,
and hadk the result buffer that you pass in to it, by calling the
ResultBuffer's UnmanagedObject.ToPointer() member. There
is example code posted here that shows how to do the latter.

You don't have to deal with the resulting ADS_NAME,
because if there is a selection set, it becomes the Previous
selection set and you can just use SelectPrevious to get the
managed counterpart.

I agree that binding to AutoCAD's type libraries is a problem
because of versioning, but there is a way to do late-binding
that does not require binding to any type library. You must
use reflection and System.Type.InvokeMember().

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wrote in message news:4948509@discussion.autodesk.com...
Referring back to my original message:
"Selection Set with relational filter" posted on:
Aug/03/05 - 13:09 (EDT)

http://discussion.autodesk.com/thread.jspa?threadID=419571

I had kind of hoped this problem would have been addressed in Service Pack 1 for AutoCAD 2006, but it was not. Will this ever be fixed, or do I need to go with Tony Tanzillo's fix and reference AutoCAD ActiveX Libraries as well? I am trying to NOT have a reference to AutoCAD's ActiveX libraries at all.
If this problem will never be fixed could you (Autodesk) give us an example using P/Invoke?

Thanks,
CG

Oh yeah, Tony, thanks for your help.

Re: Revisit

cgay — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 13:45:02 GMT

Albert, Tony:

Thank you both for your responses.

Albert, If "Service packs have an extremely high triage bar" why would this problem be addressed in a SP or at all? I really hope it makes it into an update of some kind soon. I would like to deploy a solution for my company, but this issue needs to be address first.

Tony, I will try to find the example you mentioned and give it a shot.

Thank you both,
CG

Re: Revisit

Anonymous — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 14:43:27 GMT

I think you are reading too much into my post. I just wanted to assure you
that it will be fixed. I didn't give you any specific timeline. Neither did
I say that it will be fixed in service pack.

Albert
wrote in message news:4949023@discussion.autodesk.com...
Albert, Tony:

Thank you both for your responses.

Albert, If "Service packs have an extremely high triage bar" why would this
problem be addressed in a SP or at all? I really hope it makes it into an
update of some kind soon. I would like to deploy a solution for my company,
but this issue needs to be address first.

Tony, I will try to find the example you mentioned and give it a shot.

Thank you both,
CG

Re: Revisit

Anonymous — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 15:04:35 GMT

More than likely it won't be fixed in a SP. IMO, Autodesk's philosophy is to
upgrade to the next version.

wrote in message news:4949023@discussion.autodesk.com...
Albert, Tony:

Thank you both for your responses.

Albert, If "Service packs have an extremely high triage bar" why would this
problem be addressed in a SP or at all? I really hope it makes it into an
update of some kind soon. I would like to deploy a solution for my company,
but this issue needs to be address first.

Tony, I will try to find the example you mentioned and give it a shot.

Thank you both,
CG