Rigid Links and Logical Lists in API

[Romanich]

Hi,

I have found some awkward bug (or it is a feature?) in the Robot API. If Robot GUI has working language different from English (for example Russian), the code will not work as it should:

Dim RNRLS As RobotNodeRigidLinkServer
Set RNRLS = RobApp.Project.Structure.Nodes.RigidLinks
RNRLS.Set 1, “2to8”, "RLink"

Only one rigid link will be created – to node 2, because logical lists in Robot are localized (I thought they should not depend from language through API).

To solve this issue we can try to do like this:

Dim Robapp As New RobotApplication
Dim CurrLang As Long
CurrLang = Robapp.Preferences.GetLanguage(I_L_WORK)’get current language of Robot
Robapp.Kernel.Preferences.SetLanguage I_L_WORK, 1 ’switch to English (code 1)
Dim RNRLS As RobotNodeRigidLinkServer
Set RNRLS = RobApp.Project.Structure.Nodes.RigidLinks
RNRLS.Set 1, “2to8”, "RLink"
Robapp.Kernel.Preferences.SetLanguage I_L_WORK, CurrLang ’switch back to original language

And everything is awesome!

[Rafal.Gaweda · Accepted solution]

Of course it is like that.
All text keywords (in case of selections "to", "by") depends on selected language
See this macro with my way of dealing with some keywords
http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/robot-structural-analysis/api-macro-for-highlighting-nodes-with-instab...

example:

lang = Robapp.Preferences.GetLanguage(I_L_WORK)

    detected = Switch(lang = 1, "detected at node", lang = 44, "detected at node", lang = 48, "w węźle", lang = 33, "au noeud", lang = 34, "en el nudo")