topic Re: Widgetnames PM2019 in PowerMill Forum

Widgetnames PM2019

BS_agru — Tue, 10 Jul 2018 09:11:16 GMT

Hi,

yesterday i downloaded PM & PS 2019. We change from PM2017 to PM2019. My first impression - catastrophic... maybe we will not change now...

One Problem: We generate our Sheetupsheets with a Visual Basic Program wich doesn´t work anymore.

PM2017:

To get the Part Name:

PMILL.ExecuteEx("Print formvalue ProjectNotes.Shell.ProjSettings.ProjectName"

To get the Order Number:

PMILL.ExecuteEx("Print formvalue ProjectNotes.Shell.ProjSettings.OrderNo").Trim

PM2019:

To get the Part Name:

PMILL.ExecuteEx("Print formvalue ProjectNotes.Shell.BackstageInfo.PartName").Trim

To get the Order Number:

PMILL.ExecuteEx("Print formvalue ProjectNotes.Shell.BackstageInfo.OrderNo").Trim

but BackstageInfo does´t work!?

And how do i get the (1) Projekt Name and (2) the Projekt Path

In PM2017 it was (1)

PMILL.ExecuteEx("Print formvalue ProjectNotes.Shell.ProjSettings.ProjectName").Trim

and (2)

PMILL.ExecuteEx("Print formvalue ProjectNotes.Shell.BackstageInfo.ProjectPath"

ken.poyner — Tue, 10 Jul 2018 10:00:25 GMT

Hi SurgaB,

you can use the parameters that are backing all this.

print par $project.Partname
print par $project.OrderNumber
print par $project.Notes
Unlike the GUI, these (should) never change.

BS_agru — Tue, 10 Jul 2018 11:53:40 GMT

Thank´s Ken. All works, except for the Path of the Project. What´s wrong?

PMILL.ExecuteEx("print par $project.Path").Substring(9).Trim

ken.poyner — Tue, 10 Jul 2018 11:59:12 GMT

It looks like that's not in those parmeters, you can try project_pathname to get that though:

print par $project_pathname(TRUE)\r]

(STRING) pmta114624a.prj

print par $project_pathname(FALSE)

(STRING) D:/devdisk/dmk/test_data/pmdata/pmta114624a.prj

BS_agru — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 04:48:33 GMT

I tried different "print par $project_xx", "$project.xx" without success. Is there any other solution to get the path of the project?

ken.poyner — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 07:03:51 GMT

print par $project_pathname(FALSE)