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ScriptUI not reliable

Community Expert ,
Jun 13, 2019 Jun 13, 2019

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Dear friends,

This time I'm really awake... In my script I check properties of graphic object and update a palette accordingly. I have now discovered, that for certain texts the ScriptUI functions are not reliable - or at least tricky to be used.

  if (Fgr_IsOneOf("Arc Line Polyline", sType)){   // --- Arrow shapes -----------------------------

    wPalP.g0.pArr.gTipNum.pTips.children[0].value = false; // assume no arrow

    kArrow = Fgr_IsArrayInArray (goFgr.ARROWPROPS, [oObject.ArrowBaseAngle, oObject.ArrowTipAngle, oObject.ArrowLength/goFgr.PT, 0.25, oObject.ArrowType]);

    if (kArrow === null) {

      msgText = msgText + "Arrow shape is none of the pre-defined. ";

      wPalP.g0.pArr.current.text = "Current: " + oObject.ArrowBaseAngle + "°, " + oObject.ArrowTipAngle + "°, " + oObject.ArrowLength/goFgr.PT + "pt, " + oObject.ArrowType;

//    wPalP.g0.pArr.current.visible = true;

//    wPalP.g0.pArr.current.graphics.foregroundColor = wPalP.g0.pArr.current.graphics.newPen (wPalP.g0.pArr.current.graphics.PenType.SOLID_COLOR, [1, 0, 0], 1);

//    alert (wPalP.g0.pArr.current.text);

    } else {

As you can see from the comment lines I was fiddling around with various hacks to make ...current.text appear. A similar part of the script with no special characters created no problems at all.The script is UTF-8 with BOM encoded and hence the degree symbol is a 2-byte entity.

With the above text I got success only with the additional alert!

Then I started with the text without any degree symbols âž” OK. Then I succesively added the degree symbols âž” still OK.

There must have been some strange character code in the string which did not allow to display the text. I could however not recognise this in the editor and may have wiped out this obstacle with the new set up of the string. But why could then an alert kick the text into visibility?

The dialogue looks like this (with the messages in red):

FMgraph_panel_P.png

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Engaged ,
Jun 13, 2019 Jun 13, 2019

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Hi Klaus,

As it works as expected, when you call alert, it sounds like the Dialog simply doesn't refresh/update the layout.

Maybe it's due to the Dialog is very complex, and some Events get lost in space.

Some thoughts, not sure if it works

* Window has a property "layout", an instance of "LayoutManager".

* "LayoutManager has a method "layout()"

* layout() is only called the first time a Dialog appears. After that layout() has to be called by script, if Dialog is resized, etc.

* Maybe it could work, if you call

Window.layout.layout()

just before the script finishes. Where "Window" is the instance of your dialog.

As mentioned, not sure if this helps

markus

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Thanks Markus,

I'll keep that in the quiver - to be ready if it comes back!

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