RE: [CONNECT Update 16] GetStringFromMstnResource

Jon Summers — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 05:56:50 GMT

[quote userid="2163" url="~/products/programming/microstation_programming/f/microstation-programming---forum/234064/connect-update-16-getstringfrommstnresource/726603"]Where you would want to call GetStringFromMstnResource from a managed code .NET application for the ability to obtain a .NET String instance populated from an existing native code MDL message/string resource (primarily .rsc files, or .ma, etc.) [/quote]

OK, so it's not the intention to somehow bundle a .rsc file with a .NET AddIn?

If I want to use an existing .rsc or .ma file from .NET, how do I go about opening that file so that GetStringFromMstnResource can read it? Besides opening the file, some other part of the API must register the message list IDs to that a call to GetStringFromMstnResource can resolve the message ID and the message list ID. You mention the MstnMessageListNumber, but MicroStationAPI help doesn't go any further than to acknowledge its existence.

RE: [CONNECT Update 16] GetStringFromMstnResource

Robert Hook — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 20:45:40 GMT

Hi Jon Summers,

Its primarily there for interoperability between .NET managed and native code MDL applications.

Where you would want to call GetStringFromMstnResource from a managed code .NET application for the ability to obtain a .NET String instance populated from an existing (localized) native code MDL message/string resource (primarily .rsc files, or .ma, etc.) w/o need to duplicate those resource strings multiple times using different conventions for each target language and every native and managed code application instance created.

The first parameter is the MessageList/StringList ID and the second parameter is the Resource ID (index) of the message string you wish to access; similar to this example:

String levelOutput = Session.GetStringFromMstnResource (MstnMessageListNumber.Messages2, 911);
...
sOutput = String.Format ("({0}) {1}", styleNo.ToString(), levelOutput);

HTH,
Bob