Remove reference path for rasters

Re: Remove reference path for rasters

Michael Farmer — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:40:50 GMT

Everybody,

The basic logic for this macro has now worked and the final version is as below... please note that I had to add On Error Resume Next to make it work. Suggest that this might be due to some of the names for the rasters which contained "[xx]". The "hard-wired" raster path has been supplanted by the file name alone and the path for the rasters is now supplied by MS_RFDIR, which is what we want.

Option Explicit
Dim theRasters As Rasters
Dim oRaster As raster
Dim i As Long
Dim sPath As String

Sub Main()

    Set theRasters = RasterManager.Rasters

    For Each oRaster In theRasters
        If oRaster.RasterInformation.Path = "T:\2346 Eldon Square Newcastle Phase 3\Images\Statutory Signage" Then
            sPath = oRaster.RasterInformation.Name
            'Debug.Print sPath
            On Error Resume Next
            oRaster.SetAttachName sPath 'works
            i = i + 1
        End If
    Next

    Debug.Print "rasters processed: " & i

End Sub

Re: Remove reference path for rasters

Michael Farmer — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:33:43 GMT

Yes, that's correct as far as I know. But a temp security glitch meant that a user was able to mess about with our standards.cfg with:

MS_DISALLOWFULLREFPATH = 0

MS_DISALLOWRELATIVEREFPATH = 0

which allowed the full path to be inserted. Horrors.

MS_DISALLOWFULLREFPATH  = 1

MS_DISALLOWRELATIVEREFPATH = 1

Have now been restored - to prevent this, of course. But I am stuck with trying to sort the residual mess out, and the "hard-referencing" of raster references is not supplanted by the MS_RFDIR search path, as far as I can see. Hence the need to write this macro.

Thanks

Mike

Re: Remove reference path for rasters

caddcop — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:04:49 GMT

In my experience, if the MS_RFDIR variable is properly defined, MicroStation will search and find references even if they were attached with a different path.

When it has failed, there was "operator error" in defining the variable.