Store data entered in a form
Hi,
It depends on the kind of storing
- In the current drawing only during the current session: you can store the data as instance members of a class or Document.UserData entries (see this topic)
- Persistant in a drawing: typically xrecord or xdata, xrecords can be attached to a named dictionary (NOD) or an extension dictionary of some non purgeable object such as the layer "0", some symbol table, xdata should also be attached to some non purgeable object.
- Persistant and accessible from any drawing: entries of a Registry key or data stored in an external file (.txt, .csv, .ini, .xml, .json, ...)
Accepted solution
Xrecords belongs to DBDictionaries and are accessible by their "name" (key) which is unique within the owner dictionary.
There's two kinds of dictionaries:
- named dictionaries that belongs to a DBDictionary (typically the Named Objects Dictionary which is the root dictionary for named dictionaries). As Xrecords they are accessible by their name.
- extension dictionaries that belongs to any DBObject.
So, to store some xrecords, you could either use the extension dictionary of the layer 0 or simply create a new named dictionary in the NOD.
You can find in this reply some extension methods to read/write xrecord data. These extension methods are extracted from a largest library: Gile.AutoCAD.Extension.
