FrameMaker 2019: Extract literal string values from F_StringsT array

[user343489349]

I am trying to pull out the values from F_StringsT array but i am not getting exact string values as i want.

In my case i have a variable colorType of type F_StringsT and if i use following code it return values as specified -

StringT test = colorType.val[0]; In this case value of test is  0x0F19D690
and value returned by *colorType.val[0]; is "81 'Q'" (within double qoutes).

What i want to get back is literal string "QRH".

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

[frameexpert]

I am not exactly sure about this, but your colorType array is likely an array of Color objects or ids. So test would be a Color object id and that Color object has a StringT FP_Name property. I program in ExtendScript so my syntax might not be correct but I am familiar with the FrameMaker API object model.

[user343489349]

F_StringsT colorType;
F_AttributesT attrs = F_ApiGetAttributes(docId, hleId);

if (attrs.len)
{
for (size_t i = 0; i < attrs.len; i++)
{

if (F_StrIEqual(attrs.val[i].name, COLOR_TYPE))
{
colorType = F_ApiCopyStrings(&attrs.val[i].values);
break;
}
}

StringT test = colorType.val[0];

This is the exact code and colorType is an array of attribute values. So i want to extract the exact value of attribute as how it is shown in framemaker.

for example ColorType  = "QRH" This is how it is in framemaker and what i want is QRH.

[frameexpert]

OK, I see what you are doing. Here is how I do it with ExtendScript. You may be able to adapt it for the FDK.

function getAttributeValue (element, name) {
    
    var attrList = element.Attributes, i = 0;
    
    for (i = 0; i < attrList.length; i += 1) {
        if (attrList[i].name === name) {
            if (attrList[i].values[0] !== undefined) {
                return (attrList[i].values[0]);
            }
        }
    }
}

[frameexpert]

Here is a chunk of C code that I found on my old system:

VoidT F_ApiCommand(IntT command)
{
  F_ObjHandleT docId, defId;
  F_ElementRangeT erange;
  F_AttributesT attrs;
  UIntT i = 0;

  docId = F_ApiGetId(FV_SessionId, FV_SessionId, FP_ActiveDoc);
  erange = F_ApiGetElementRange(FV_SessionId, docId, FP_ElementSelection);
  attrs = F_ApiGetAttributes(docId, erange.beg.parentId);
  if(attrs.len >0) 
    for(i = 0; i <attrs.len; i++)
    {
      if(attrs.val[i].values.len > 0)
        F_Printf(NULL, "Attribute %d: %s = %s.\n", i, attrs.val[i].name, attrs.val[i].values.val[0]);
      else
        F_Printf(NULL, "Attribute %d: %s. =NOVALUE!\n", i, attrs.val[i].name);
    }
  F_ApiDeallocateAttributes(&attrs);

  F_ApiAlert("Attribute check complete.", FF_ALERT_CONTINUE_WARN);
}