SelectObjects Method (Edit)

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Selects objects in GED

Syntax

C#
C++/CLI

public void SelectObjects( 
   string strFullLinkFileName,
   StringCollection objectIds,
   bool bDeselectAll
)

public:
void SelectObjects( 
   String^ strFullLinkFileName,
   StringCollection^ objectIds,
   bool bDeselectAll
)

Parameters

strFullLinkFileName: Full link file name of the project. The already selected objects will be deselected.
objectIds: List of Ids of objects to be selected. Note that an object Id MUST have three parts separated with slash: Type/Id/transient flag. Transient flag can have 2 values, 0 means object is persistent, 1 means object is transient. e.g.: 17/142/0. When you get the object Id from Properties.PROPUSER_DBOBJECTID, you have to remove the first number (project id) and the first '/' from this string (see example).
bDeselectAll: Deselect all objects which were already selected.

Exceptions

Exception	Description
ArgumentException	Is thrown in case of invalid \parameters.
ApplicationException	The graphics editor interface could not be created.

Remarks

When passing bDeselectAll as true, the already selected objects will be deselected and the objects passed in as objectIds will be selected.

Example

The following examples shows a method to mark all the motors on a given schematic page.

StringCollection scFuncIds = new StringCollection();

foreach (Function oFunction in arrFunctions)
{
    //get object id
    string objectId = oFunction.Properties.PROPUSER_DBOBJECTID;

    //get index of first separator
    int idxOfSlash = objectId.IndexOf("/", 1, objectId.Length - 1, StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase);

    //cut off value before first separator together with this separator
    string objectIdWithoutProjectId = objectId.Substring(idxOfSlash + 1, (objectId.Length - idxOfSlash - 1));

    //add value to array
    scFuncIds.Add(objectIdWithoutProjectId);
}

//remove selection from all object and then select objects passed as in a list
new Edit().SelectObjects(m_TestProject.ProjectLinkFilePath, scFuncIds, true);

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