V8i VBA - Triforma API Documentation

Is there a decent description of the Triforma API? I've downloaded the Triforma SDK kit from Select Services and have Triforma.chm in hand, and while this help offers some guidance it is not specific to a VBA API. In addition, it seems that there is an API specific to architectural structural, mechanical, electrical, etc (name spaces for products) which is not included in the basic Triforma.chm.

 What I’m hoping to find is something at least to the level of MicrostationVBA.chm.  A simple listing of Enums, Objects, Events, Methods, Properties, and Types along with half dozen or a dozen examples specific to the entire Trifroma API. Examples specific to each Object, etc. would be even better (I hate to give this example here, but refer to the RevitAPI.chm for a good example of this.)

The entire thing is a little frustrating. I’ve been programing for decades. I know VB very well. I’ve written many VBA’s for Microstation.  I’m a user of BA and AECOsim. But the lack of descriptive information about the Triforma API is more than a little frustrating. Please tell me Bentley has documented this stuff and I’ve just missed finding it. As it is now, hunting and picking my way through the material I have found more than a little frustrating. I’d expected to be able to jump right into automating BA and AECOsim, but what I found was a big black void of information and a bucketfull of frustration.

 

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  • Hi Tom,

    I just found your old post and I'm in a similar situation today (though I'm using C++ rather than VBA). I feel like the documentation and function declarations that I have are just a small subset of the "whole" range of functions that are available. There are many functions that cannot be accessed via C/C++ because the published header files only contain about 10% of the functionality. I've been sent example code from Bentley that uses some of the hidden functions, but it's useless without the function declarations.

    Did you ever obtain more material from Bentley?
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  • Hi Tom,

    I just found your old post and I'm in a similar situation today (though I'm using C++ rather than VBA). I feel like the documentation and function declarations that I have are just a small subset of the "whole" range of functions that are available. There are many functions that cannot be accessed via C/C++ because the published header files only contain about 10% of the functionality. I've been sent example code from Bentley that uses some of the hidden functions, but it's useless without the function declarations.

    Did you ever obtain more material from Bentley?
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