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Set UIView Co-ordinates

Anonymous — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 05:56:56 GMT

I have found some good info on obtaining the co-ordinates of the UIViews here:

http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2012/06/uiview-and-windows-device-coordinates.html

here is my code for getting the values:

            Dim uiDocument As UIDocument = commandData.Application.ActiveUIDocument
            Dim document As Document = uiDocument.Document

            Dim activeUIView As UIView = (From v As UIView In uiDocument.GetOpenUIViews
                                         Where v.ViewId.Equals(document.ActiveView.Id)
                                         Select v).Single

            Dim topLeft As New UV(activeUIView.GetWindowRectangle.Left, activeUIView.GetWindowRectangle.Top)
            Dim btmRight As New UV(activeUIView.GetWindowRectangle.Right, activeUIView.GetWindowRectangle.Bottom)

Any ideas on how to set them? ie. How can i set a windows size and location?

Re: Set UIView Co-ordinates

jeremytammik — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 06:57:13 GMT

The post you mention already exercises all available methods on the UIView class to get and set the view coordinates.

The only set method currently available is ZoomAndCenterRectangle as shown in the post.

Re: Set UIView Co-ordinates

Anonymous — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 07:10:30 GMT

Thanks Jeremy, I thought this would be the case.

So if ican't set them how would i go about tiling?

Do i have find window handles and use these functions:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ff468919(v=vs.85).aspx

or is there an easier built in Revit way?

Re: Set UIView Co-ordinates

jeremytammik — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 14:01:55 GMT

Dear Bburling,

I don't see any possibility to set the window size and position in the Revit UI, I'm afraid, and I would be surprised if the Windows API helps much either.

I am checking with the development team to see whether they have any other suggestions for this.

I wish you a nice weekend!

Re: Set UIView Co-ordinates

jeremytammik — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 14:39:38 GMT

The development team confirmed that this is currently not possible. I filed a requerst for this functionality.

Re: Set UIView Co-ordinates

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Jun 2016 14:42:31 GMT

Hi,

So why is it possible to Set parameters of Window Rectangle ? (See image)

This is how I do it:

>> activeUIView.GetWindowRectangle.Left = a ; activeUIView.GetWindowRectangle.Top = b

There is no error in the code, but there is no action. What is the use of this command ?

Re: Set UIView Co-ordinates

jeremy_tammik — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 12:19:00 GMT

Dear Zakaria,

The Revit API provides the method GetWindowRectangle.

It is read-only.

It returns the window rectangle.

You can store the result in avariable in your code, or not.

What you are doing is modifying the value of return value.

That has nothing to do with the Revit API.

It affects the temporary data in your add-in memory space containing the return value, and nothing else.

I hope this clarifies.

Cheers,

Jeremy

Re: Set UIView Co-ordinates

Anonymous — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 12:30:36 GMT

the answer is clear, Thank you Jeremy,

Cheers,

zakaria