SDK Help "Comment on this page" > DataIO.GetInputFormats() issues

[Anonymous]

I tried to post this via the "comment on this page" link in the help documen,t but get this error from my mail client:

"DataIO_Overview >" is not a valid e-mail address because it is not of the form user@host. You must correct it before sending the e-mail.??  What´s up? How do i post correctly?

So for now I guess I´ll delegate my troubles to this forum instead:

Trying to use the provided code example implemented in C# on a Sheet object I seem to get a default array from sheet.DataIO.GetOutputFormats() & sheet.DataIO.GetInputFormats() throws a not implemented exception?

Another problem is the referenced variables. In C# you have to define the size of an array to initialize it, but there is no way to know what´s coming. Using an "out" argument instead of "ref" would be a much better scenario in this case as the referenced array doesn´t have to be initialized first, hence overcoming the problem of the unknown size of the output array.

Here´s my code: ( myInventor is the Application object )

Document myDoc = myInventor.ActiveDocument;
DrawingDocument myDraw = myDoc as DrawingDocument;
Sheet mySheet = myDraw.Sheets[1];
StorageTypeEnum[] myStore = new StorageTypeEnum[20];
string[] formats = new string[20];
mySheet.DataIO.GetOutputFormats(formats, myStore);
string output = "";
for(int i = 0; i < formats.Length; i++)
      output = output + System.Environment.NewLine + formats[i] + " : " + myStore[i];
 Console.Write(output);

[xiaodong_liang]

Hi,

I tried with "Comment on this page." in the API reference. After clicking, the email looks like the attached snapshot. I sent out this email to test. it works well. Could you clarify the issue you met with?

As the using the array in C#, yes it requires to have a size initially. for GetInputFormats, I would prefer to the size more than 50.

[Anonymous]

Hi Xiaodong.. Thanks for your feedback.

It seems the mailscript in the HelpDocs is an outlookonly.. I´m using Thunderbird and my mail header looks like this:

So I guess we nailed that one ;)..

But back to my main issue: I don´t seem to get any inputFormats from the Sheet.DataIO.GetInputFormats()? Í would like to export to jpg via Sheet.DataIO, but I can´t get the Format to provide via code. ( So far )

[xiaodong_liang]

Hi noontz,

for you question about DATAIO. If there is no any types with DATAIO (export/input), that means it does not support any types. Sheet supports outputing to DWF only. But, you could use SaveAs. e.g.

Sub ExportToTiff() 
Dim oDoc As DrawingDocument 
Set oDoc = ThisApplication.ActiveDocument 

oDoc.Sheets(1).Activate 
oDoc.SaveAs "e:\case\1.tiff", True  ' can support BMP or JPG
End Sub

[Anonymous]

Hi Xiaodong.  Thanks for your feedback..  I discovered a bad in my previous code sample . I was omitting the "ref" keyword. Now it works as expected!