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gcoombridge
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Activate the Text Box Dialogue Box (In IDW environment)

Hi All,

 

I currently have some time on my hands so I'm tweaking my idw templates with everything useful I can think of. I use an ilogic form to enter titleblock values etc... and on this form I also have a few rules that print to PDF with the correct rev and so on. I also wanted one to place and edit drawing notes (I haven't decided between sketch symbols or general notes).

 

I understand how to place these, edit their components, delete them etc... using code but rather than adjusting the contents of the notes through the .formattedtext approach I would just like to fire up the dialogue box you get when you manually double-click on text in the IDW environment. Is this possible? 

 

The notes I am looking to create might say anything and may have 10 numbered points etc... 

 

This is where I got to with a sketch symbols version (below). It opens the symbol for editing and selects the textbox..

 

Dim oDoc As DrawingDocument
oDoc = ThisDoc.Document
Dim oSheet As Sheet
oSheet = oDoc.ActiveSheet
Dim oSketch As SketchedSymbol

For Each oSketch In oSheet.SketchedSymbols
	If Left(oSketch.Name, 5) = "Notes" Then
	Dim oSketchSketch As Sketch
	oSketch.Definition.Edit(oSketchSketch)
	NotesText = oSketchSketch.TextBoxes.Item(1)

	ThisApplication.CommandManager.DoSelect(NotesText)
	
	oSketch.Definition.ExitEdit
Else ' Do nothing
	End If
Next oSketch

 

Thanks for your help!

 

Glenn

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