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Microstation Cell Library

Dilip Bhandarkar — Sun, 21 Jun 2020 00:40:32 GMT

Hi,

I see a new phenomenon which never happened to me before. Cells sometimes lose all nested cells in them. It is puzzling.

I copied a cell library which I wanted to update from the network to a folder in the local drive. Then I attached the cell library on the local folder and edited some cells. I then copied the cell library back it to the network location. When I load MicroStation I see that some cells have lost all the nested cells. If I attach the cell library on the local drive it is fine. The size and modified date of both the cell libraries are exactly the same, Something happens to the cell library when copied to another location. Does anyone know what the issue is?

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Nested Cells

Dilip Bhandarkar — Sat, 20 Jun 2020 16:44:50 GMT

Hi,

I see a new phenomenon which never happened to me before. Cells sometimes lose all nested cells in them. It is puzzling.

Dilip Bhandarkar

Configuration Setup of MS_CELL

Dilip Bhandarkar — Fri, 22 May 2020 14:49:28 GMT

I am using MicroStation CONNECT 10.13.01.01 on Windows 10.

The setting for MS_CELL keeps changing back to a previously set value.

I have Microstation Workset setup (TEST) on a network. The TEST.CFG has MS_CELL set up to look at two folders (Z:/Microstation/ALL/Cell/;Z:/Microstation/SPECIAL/cell/). I looked at the TEST.cfg file and see that it is set correctly. I have not set MS_CELL in the personal.ucf file. When I load Microstation the MS_CELL reverts to a folder I used some time ago i.e. it is set to MS_CELL=C:/Cell Library/. When I check my workset configuration with key in MDL LOAD CFGVARS WORKSET TEST I see that it has changed to MS_CELL=C:/Cell Library/. Why? It has been driving me crazy. Where is Microstation getting this value (C:/Cell Library/) from? Can someone help me?

Microstation CONNECT Debugging

Dilip Bhandarkar — Fri, 26 Apr 2019 22:01:32 GMT

Hi,

I have Windows 10 with Microstation Connect Update 12 and SDK Update 12 and Visual Studio 2017. I have 2 issues:

The BuildAllExamples and Bmake works and compiles all the examples. When I try to debug Visual Studio tries to build the app and fails with the following errors:

Cannot open source file "-config-eccp.h"

error directive: Data Alignment must be defined in basedefs.h

I have configured the correct Include Directories and Library Directories.

Can anyone tell me what am I doing wrong?

2. Once an app is loaded, it won't unload and I have to exit Microstation and get back in to unload it.

Dilip Bhandarkar

scanning cell library

Dilip Bhandarkar — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 16:48:49 GMT

I am trying write a VBA app to scan a cell library to substitute fonts and levels in cells. I have written code to get into a DGN file and modify cells' fonts and levels and it works, but when I tried opened a cell library like a DGN file and run the app it won't work. The app won't iterate thru' cells like it does for a DGN file. The Element Enumerator won't return cells. It just returns msdElementTypeDesignFileHeader, msdElementTypeTypeTable, msdElementTypeMicrostation, msdElementTypeViewGroup, msdElementTypeDgnStoreHeader. I thought the app will work the same way in a opened cell library file as it does an opened a DGN file. Am I wrong in assuming this? Does anyone know if this could be done and how to do it either in VBA or MDL?

Microstation CONNECT; mdl; text node element

Dilip Bhandarkar — Sun, 18 Aug 2019 14:26:26 GMT

Hi,

I have tried every possible method in Microstation API to extract text from TextBlock created from a text node element, but all I get is a empty string. I looked at the example code in Microstation API help under mdlTextNode_extract.

ElementHandle eh (...);
TextBlockPtr textBlock = TextHandlerBase::GetFirstTextPartValue (eh);
WString string = textBlock->ToString ();
The string above is empty!!!!
I also tried the following methods:
caret->GetCurrentRunCP()
caret->MoveToNextCharacter,() 
caret->MoveToNextParagraph ()

caret->MoveToNextField()

but I still can't get the text string in a text node. Can someone tell me how to extract text string from a text node.

There should be more documentation on TextBlock. It is difficult to understand the various components of a text block like TextBlockProperties, TextField, ParaGraphProperties, RunProperties, etc.

Thanks.

MDL, C++,Scanning

Dilip Bhandarkar — Wed, 24 Jul 2019 00:18:05 GMT

I have a strange problem when scanning a file. In the code below I am looking for cells with name beginning with characters "XX". It finds all the cells which start with characters "XX" except cell: XXDWG. Now if I comment out the 3 lines above the line mdlScanCriteria_setElementTypeTest(scP, NULL, sizeof(typeMask)); and uncomment that line it works! I don't understand why that piece of code wont find XXDWG but find other similar cells like XXMAIN, XXTIT1, XXSHT, etc. I have tried compressing the file but it does not help.

scP = mdlScanCriteria_create();
	status = mdlScanCriteria_setReturnType (scP, MSSCANCRIT_RETURN_FILEPOS, FALSE, TRUE);
	memset(typeMask, 0, sizeof(typeMask));

	typeMask[0] = TMSK0_CELL_HEADER;
	typeMask[4] = TMSK4_MICROSTATION_ELM;
	mdlScanCriteria_setElementTypeTest (scP, typeMask, sizeof(typeMask));
	//mdlScanCriteria_setElementTypeTest(scP, NULL, sizeof(typeMask));

	eofPos = mdlElement_getFilePos ( FILEPOS_EOF, NULL);
	modelRef = mdlModelRef_getActive();
	mdlScanCriteria_setModel (scP, MASTERFILE);
	filePos = 0L;
	actualPos = 0L;
	do
		{
		scanWords = sizeof (elemAddr) / sizeof (short); 

		status = mdlScanCriteria_scan ( scP, elemAddr, &scanWords, &filePos); 
		numAddr = scanWords/sizeof (short); 
		for ( i = 0 ; i < numAddr; i++)
			{
			if (elemAddr [i] >= eofPos)
   				break; 
			if (elemAddr [i] < actualPos)
    				continue; 
			mdlElmdscr_read ( &cellDP, elemAddr [i], ACTIVE_FILE, FALSE, &actualPos); 
			if (cellDP->el.ehdr.type == CELL_HEADER_ELM)
				{
				mdlCell_extract ( NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, cellname, MAX_CELLNAME_LENGTH, &cellDP->el);	
				if (cellname [0] == L'X' && cellname [1] == L'X')
					{
					replace = 0;
					status = mdlElmdscr_operation ( cellDP, (PFElemOperation )putTitleInfo, &dummy, ELMD_ELEMENT | ELMD_PRE_HDR | ELMD_PRE_NESTEDHDR);
					if (replace)
						status = mdlElmdscr_rewrite ( cellDP, NULL, actualPos);
					}
				}
			mdlElmdscr_freeAll (&cellDP);
			}
    		} while (status == BUFF_FULL); 
	return SUCCESS;

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C++ Scanning File issue

Dilip Bhandarkar — Wed, 24 Jul 2019 15:05:37 GMT

scP = mdlScanCriteria_create();
	status = mdlScanCriteria_setReturnType (scP, MSSCANCRIT_RETURN_FILEPOS, FALSE, TRUE);
	memset(typeMask, 0, sizeof(typeMask));

	typeMask[0] = TMSK0_CELL_HEADER;
	typeMask[4] = TMSK4_MICROSTATION_ELM;
	mdlScanCriteria_setElementTypeTest (scP, typeMask, sizeof(typeMask));
	//mdlScanCriteria_setElementTypeTest(scP, NULL, sizeof(typeMask));

	eofPos = mdlElement_getFilePos ( FILEPOS_EOF, NULL);
	modelRef = mdlModelRef_getActive();
	mdlScanCriteria_setModel (scP, MASTERFILE);
	filePos = 0L;
	actualPos = 0L;
	do
		{
		scanWords = sizeof (elemAddr) / sizeof (short); 

		status = mdlScanCriteria_scan ( scP, elemAddr, &scanWords, &filePos); 
		numAddr = scanWords/sizeof (short); 
		for ( i = 0 ; i < numAddr; i++)
			{
			if (elemAddr [i] >= eofPos)
   				break; 
			if (elemAddr [i] < actualPos)
    				continue; 
			mdlElmdscr_read ( &cellDP, elemAddr [i], ACTIVE_FILE, FALSE, &actualPos); 
			if (cellDP->el.ehdr.type == CELL_HEADER_ELM)
				{
				mdlCell_extract ( NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, cellname, MAX_CELLNAME_LENGTH, &cellDP->el);	
				if (cellname [0] == L'X' && cellname [1] == L'X')
					{
					replace = 0;
					status = mdlElmdscr_operation ( cellDP, (PFElemOperation )putTitleInfo, &dummy, ELMD_ELEMENT | ELMD_PRE_HDR | ELMD_PRE_NESTEDHDR);
					if (replace)
						status = mdlElmdscr_rewrite ( cellDP, NULL, actualPos);
					}
				}
			mdlElmdscr_freeAll (&cellDP);
			}
    		} while (status == BUFF_FULL); 
	return SUCCESS;

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TextBlock Enter-data-field in C++

Dilip Bhandarkar — Thu, 16 May 2019 17:44:24 GMT

Hi,

I am using Microstation Connect Update 12 along with the Update 12 SDK on Windows 10.

The various components of TextBlock are difficult to understand without proper documentation besides MicrostationAPI documentation. Although we are going to phase out Enter-data-fields in the future and convert existing Enter data-field to item types, till we do so we still have to deal with it.

I had seen Young An Fu's response to someone else's question about 3 years ago, addressed some of the issues. I still need a little more information. Here is Yong An Fu's previous code.

void queryEDF(WCharCP  unparsed)
	{
	ElementHandle eh(1325L, ACTIVEMODEL);
	ITextQueryCP textQuery = eh.GetITextQuery();
	if (!textQuery || !textQuery->IsTextElement(eh))
		{
		mdlDialog_dmsgsPrint(L"Your identified element is not a text element");
		return;
		}
   
	ITextPartIdPtr textPart;
    TextBlockPtr textBlock = textQuery->GetTextPart(eh, *textPart);
	if (textBlock.IsNull() || textBlock->IsEmpty())
		{
		mdlDialog_dmsgsPrint(L"Your text element has no content");
		return;
		}
		
	CaretPtr  caret = textBlock->CreateStartCaret();
	do
		{
		EdfCharStreamCP edf = dynamic_cast<EdfCharStreamCP>(caret->GetCurrentRunCP());
        if (NULL != edf)
			{   // This run is a EDF
			WString str = edf->GetString();
			mdlDialog_dmsgsPrint(str.GetWCharCP());
			}
		}while (SUCCESS == caret->MoveToNextRun());
	}

I would like to know how to extract Number of EdFields and for each: length, start and justification.

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MDL Level

Dilip Bhandarkar — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 15:28:27 GMT

I has asked this question earlier but the issue was not really resolved. I am going nuts with this.

I have to set elements to pre-V8 version of levels like "Level 10", "Level 21", etc.

If the level is not used, then mdlLevel_isValidByName returns FALSE.

Then since the level is not valid I use mdlLevel_create which returns MSGID_errorLevelNameIsDuplicate.

So my question is how to get LevelID of say "Level 10" when it has not been used?

My code is shown below.

UInt32 getLevelIDfromName (char* strLevel)

{
MSWChar mswLevelName[MAX_LEVEL_NAME_LENGTH];
int len;
UInt32 levelID;
DgnModelRefP modelRef = NULL;
BoolInt bInt;
StatusInt sInt;

//strcpy (strLevel, "LLevel 10"); // Works - creates level "LLevel 10" if does not exist
//strcpy (strLevel, "10"); // Works -- creates level "10" if does not exist
strcpy (strLevel, "Level 10");//Does not work if Level 10 is not used -
//mdlLevel_isValidByName fails FALSE
//mdlLevel_create fails returns 9 (MSGID_errorLevelNameIsDuplicate)
//strcpy (strLevel, "Level 10"); //Works not work if Level 10 is used
len = mdlCnv_convertMultibyteToUnicode (strLevel, -1,mswLevelName, MAX_LEVEL_NAME_LENGTH);
modelRef = mdlModelRef_getActive();
bInt = mdlLevel_isValidByName (mdlModelRef_getActive(),LEVEL_NULL_ID,mswLevelName);
if (bInt == TRUE)
mdlLevel_getIdFromName (&levelID,mdlModelRef_getActive(),LEVEL_NULL_ID,mswLevelName);
else
sInt = mdlLevel_create (&levelID,mdlModelRef_getActive(),mswLevelName,LEVEL_NULL_CODE);

mdlLevelTable_rewrite(mdlModelRef_getActive());
return levelID;
}

Microstation 8i MDL: Getting LevelID

Dilip Bhandarkar — Sun, 13 Jan 2019 16:43:49 GMT

Hi,

I am trying to get the LevelID of the original levels (1 to 63 as Level 1, Level 2, etc.) using the function mdlLevel_getIdFromName. But I notice that I get an error (wrong LevelID) when I try to get LevelID of an unused level like "Level 11". If the level is used in the DGN file then the function works. I am not getting something here.

Microstation Connect debugging using VS2015

Dilip Bhandarkar — Wed, 02 May 2018 13:54:45 GMT

Hi,

I have been trying to debug one of the example code in Microstation CONNECT 10.08.00.37 using Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition. Is there any documentation on how to go about doing this. Every document I find either is for 8i or a different version of Visual Studio. I can't seem to be able to even locate where to specify to Visual Studio about the location of the DLL. I also find that it needs the location of the pdb file (in the mdlApps folder). It would be nice for Bentley to create a documentation which which outlines the whole debug process.

If anyone has this info, I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks.

Microstation CONNECT Tag

Dilip Bhandarkar — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 16:14:26 GMT

I am in the process of migrating from Microstation 8i to Microstation CONNECT (Version 10.04.00.46). I had an app in VBA to create cells and attach tags to it. It works in Microstation CONNECT, except that the tags are visible in spite of the the hidden property being set to true (.IsHidden = True) in the tag definition. The tags are hidden in 8i. When I go to edit the tags, the Display property is set with check mark, when it should have been unchecked. I even tried to set the hidden property while attaching the cell as shown below.

        Set oTagDef = oTagDefs("ID")
        oTagDef.IsConstant = False
        oTagDef.IsHidden = True
        Set cellTag = oCell.AddTag(oTagDef)
        cellTag.Value = vID
        cellTag.Rewrite

Looks like the tags get set to display the tags regardless of the setting in VBA. Does anyone know what is the issue here?

Thanks.

Dilip Bhandarkar