How to Insert Object...

[Shah Satish]

Hi !!! In my application,I have created one dialog box which showing preview of the symbol.Now i want to insert this symbol in my Application( Autocad).How can i insert this?? Ie if I will click OK button from Dialog box then symbol (preview)should be insert in the Autocad.?? Thanking you Shah

[Roger Stoltz]

:confused::confused: AutoCad[^]? Your application?

Shah Satish wrote:

How can i insert this?

Really hard to tell. I assume that the preview is not the actual object that is to be inserted, but rather a small bitmap or similar just to show the user how it looks. You have to describe the "symbol". What is it? An OLE object, picture or what? You have to describe the target as well. What kind of application is it? What does it mean to "insert" a "symbol"?

---

"It's supposed to be hard, otherwise anybody could do it!" - selfquote

[Shah Satish]

Symol is from my file..Like C:\\Symbol\\Exchangers\\Exchanger_1_i.dwg (here Exchanger_1_i.dwg is the symbol and its Autocad drawing) This is the preview of the dialog box.

[Roger Stoltz]

Ok... This is how I understood you so far: It is the actual commercial CAD application AutoCad and the "symbol" you want to insert is an AutoCad drawing. So the question is really about "how do I insert an AutoCad symbol in an AutoCad drawing"? Man, you really picked the wrong forum for this question... Try AutoCad support. ;) Actually I don't think this is the case, but if I only read the things you're writing, that would be the only conclusion. The questions in my previous post was meant to narrow the problem down and trying to understand what you're trying to do and how you're trying to do it. At least try to answer those questions if you still want some help. Perhaps I cannot help you, I don't know that yet since you haven't described your problem in an understandable way, but there might be someone else that can. They would ask you similar questions however.

---

"It's supposed to be hard, otherwise anybody could do it!" - selfquote

[Shah Satish]

Yeh..You got my question correctly.. See my code..

BOOL CDwgPvDLG::OnInitDialog()
{
CDialog::OnInitDialog();

//static bool isFirstRun = true;


m\_mytext.AddString(\_T("Exchanger-Double end"));
    m\_mytext.AddString(\_T("Exchanger-Single end"));
    m\_mytext.AddString(\_T("Exchanger-Double end kettle"));
m\_mytext.AddString(\_T("Exchanger-Single end kettle"));
m\_mytext.AddString(\_T("Exchanger-Super"));
m\_mytext.AddString(\_T("Exchanger-Process Flow"));

if (str == _T("")) {

// This is default value.

   m\_mytext.SetCurSel(0);

   mydwg = \_T("C:\\\\Symbol\\\\Exchangers\\\\Exchanger\_1\_i.dwg");

}

else{

   m\_mytext.SelectString(-1,str);
}

this->Invalidate(FALSE);

return TRUE;

}

void CDwgPvDLG::OnPaint()

{
// This is the class for preview of my drawing. CDwgPreview ::ShowInDialog (mydwg,this,IDC_PVTYP);

CPaintDC dc(this); 

// device context for painting
// TODO: Add your message handler code here
// Do not call CDialog::OnPaint() for painting messages

}

void CDwgPvDLG::OnselectionchangeList()
{
// TODO: Add your control notification handler code here

int nEntry = m_mytext.GetCurSel();

const IndexEntry *pEntry = m_pPermutedIndex->GetIndexTableEntry(nEntry);

this->Invalidate(FALSE);

}

void CDwgPvDLG ::OnOK()
{
CDialog::OnOK();

m_mytext.GetText(m_mytext.GetCurSel(),str);

//Here i have to add some code for inserting my symbol (.dwg).

}

Shah

[jhwurmbach]

In your code, you can probably call your class roughly like this: CDwgPvDLG m_DwgPv; if( IDOK == m_DwgPv.DoModal()) { CString DWGItem = m_DwgPv.str; //do whatever you want with the string the user did select in the dialog } Hope this helps? Feel free to ask more.

---

"We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising: and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress, while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation." -- Caius Petronius, Roman Consul, 66 A.D.

[Shah Satish]

Thanks for reply..But this is code for Calling dialog box..I have alreday call dialog box through command..only step is how to insert file ( for exmple this is my string n now i want to insert ..("C:\\Symbol\\Exchangers\\Exchanger_1_i.dwg") every thing should be in On ok().. like..

void CDwgPvDLG ::OnOK()
{
CDialog::OnOK();

m_mytext.GetText(m_mytext.GetCurSel(),str);

ads_point point;

acedGetPoint(NULL,(_T("\nPick position : ")),point);

// some code here to insert dwg.

}

[jhwurmbach]

Shah Satish wrote:

every thing should be in On ok().. like..

That is bad style. Have the Dialog do one thing (i.e. get a selection from the user) and do the work from where the dialg had been called. Possibly by opening other dialogs to get the user to answer more specific questions. Or are you doing a dialog-based application and this is your main dialog?

---

"We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising: and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress, while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation." -- Caius Petronius, Roman Consul, 66 A.D.

[Shah Satish]

Yeh..This is MFC dialog based application and this is only one and main dialog box.. Your method is also good but main thing is How to insert ??

[jhwurmbach]

Shah Satish wrote:

Your method is also good but main thing is How to insert ??

I have not the faintest idea of how to handle a dwg-file. You would need to know the format, read it, parse it, build an internal representation of it and draw that. Sorry, but I don't think I can help you with that specific problem.

---

"We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising: and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress, while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation." -- Caius Petronius, Roman Consul, 66 A.D.