topic Re: cant create choice...? in PowerMill Forum

cant create choice...?

jsweatherbie — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:18:15 GMT

it says i cant make an choice list ??? is it because its an entity list or am i using this wrong?

reset localvars if not entity_exists('featureset',"") { message info "No Feature-set in session" return } //Filters for only Drilling Programs entity list $temp = filter(folder("toolpath\"),'strategy == "drill"') //dummy list entity list $Selected = {} foreach i in $temp { int f = add_last($Selected, entity('toolpath','')) } string $finalSelection = input choice $Selected "" foreach i in $Selected { ACTIVATE TOOLPATH $i }

Re: cant create choice...?

iamcdn79 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:53:33 GMT

try this

reset localvars if not entity_exists('featureset',"") { message info "No Feature-set in session" return } // Filter for only Drilling toolpaths entity list $temp = filter(folder('toolpath'), 'strategy == "drill"') // Build a string list of names for the choice dialog string list $nameList = {} foreach $i in $temp { int $f = add_last($nameList, $i.Name) } // Select Toolpaths string $finalSelection = input choice $nameList "Select Toolpaths To Activate" // Activate the chosen toolpath by name ACTIVATE TOOLPATH $finalSelection

Re: cant create choice...?

jsweatherbie — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:10:06 GMT

this works but im trying to get it to be multiple selection i didnt know if it needed to be an entity list or a string list...

ive tired keeping it an entity but i never seem to get it working...

im trying to get it so when the user gets the list they can select what they want and continue with the macro

Re: cant create choice...?

rafael.sansao — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:06:42 GMT

RESET LOCALVARS IF NOT entity_exists('featureset',"") { MESSAGE INFO "No Feature-set in session" RETURN } //Filters for only Drilling Programs ENTITY LIST $temp = filter(folder("toolpath\"),'strategy == "drill"') //dummy list STRING LIST $Selected = {} FOREACH i in $temp { INT f = add_last($Selected, $i.Name) } INT LIST $finalSelection = INPUT CHOICE MULTIPLE $Selected "Select toolpaths" FOREACH i in $finalSelection { ENTITY $tp = entity("Toolpath",$Selected[i]) ACTIVATE TOOLPATH $tp.Name }

Re: cant create choice...?

jsweatherbie — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:53:09 GMT

yes that i was trying to do !

seems like i was missing the integer list!

thank you very much!