How to set the display style in the program?

spike:

In the view attributes, we can set the display style(such as "smooth", "wire frame", "hidden line", "filled hidden line", etc). How can I set these styles in the program?

How about View.RenderMode?

Regards, Jon Summers
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Thanks a lot, Jon. That's exactly what I want to get.

It took me a lot of time to look for it. I tried to search by the keyword "display".

Jeff,

But, unless I am doing something wrong, this only brings up a tool settings box, correct?

You can use a pure key-in string for some of the more basic renders.

i.e. change view hidden   and change view smooth.

Have you found a way to do a full key-in for newer view displays such as Illustration, or transparent?

While it is not VBA or a keyin you can do this from the C++ MicroStationAPI:

extern "C" DLLEXPORT void ViewDeco_viewDisplayMode

   (

   char* unparsed

   )

   {

   WString str;

   str = WString(unparsed);

   int numOfStyles = ViewDeco_viewDisplayModeList();

//change for view 1 only...example code....

   IViewManager::GetManager().ApplyDisplayStyleToView(0,str.c_str(),true,true);

   }

This could be put into an application for use by VBA.

marka