iLogic - How to use Balloons.AttachToComponent?

[Skadborg.NTI]

iLogic snippets include these two balloon commands:

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ActiveSheet.View("VIEW1").Balloons.DoNotAttachToComponent("Pin:1")
ActiveSheet.View("VIEW1").Balloons.AttachToComponent("Pin:1")

They have apperently no impact on the view. It seems that they just prepare for a following command that actually will place the ballon(s).

Anybody knows how to use Balloons.AttachToComponent and Balloons.DoNotAttachToComponent?

My alternative will be to traverse through all DrawingCurves in the view and then add balloons on at a time. This seems as a very cumbersome approach to do a autoballoon.

[MjDeck · Accepted solution]

Those functions are part of a workflow to re-attach balloons that are already in the drawing. They can't be used for autoballoon.

If you want to autoballoon using the API, I think you would want to iterate over the components in the PartsList. Then find the DrawingCurves that correspond to each component, 

[fsanchou]

Hi @MjDeck

Could you give some examples of uses of these features ("reattach", "AttachToComponent" ) ?

For AutoBalloon, after create iteration, how do you manage arrowhead location?

Thanks

[MjDeck]

Hi @fsanchou,

I don't have a good example that involves the iLogic Balloons functions. They're not used often. But if you have a model that uses iLogic rules to suppress and unsuppress components, and you can post it here or send it to me, I might be able to add iLogic balloons code to it.

About your second question: I'm pretty sure you can move the arrowhead of a balloon by modifying its LeaderNodes.

[R.Mabery]

Hi,

I use a workpoint in the component as my balloon start along with the ModelToSheetSpace method.