Get object from the "type"

As in the other post - you get an array of object definitions from this. So you can use all methods of ObjDef on the single items in the array - like ObjDef.Name(nLoc) or ObjDef.Attribute(Constants.AT_NAME, nLoc).getValue()...

Hi Robert,

Thank you for the reply.

ObjDef.Attribute(Constants.AT_NAME, nLoc).getValue() did help me in accessing the name of the object.

I want to access symbol type of the object, and tried accessing using 

ObjDef.Attribute(Constants.AT_SYMBOLS_WITH_ATTRIBUTE_DIMENSION, nLoc).getValue()

But all the values are empty.

I tried using 

ObjDef1 = ObjDef.OccList();

 ooutfile.OutputLnF((((ObjDef1 .SymbolName() + ": ")  + " " + getString("TEXT")), "REPORT");

But still the SymbolName() returns empty values.



I am not sure in which direction I should go, please guide me in the correct direction if I am doing something wrong here.

Regards.

Hi Kshama,

well, an object definition does NOT has a symbol. So you have no method to get the symbol for an object definition ! Instead, you have to go via the occurrences of the object and there you can get the symbol.

The problem here is that an object definition can have multiple occurrences with different symbols...

The only thing an obj def has, is the Default Symbol which you can get e.g. via : ObjDef.getDefaultSymbolNum ( )

Concerning your code:

ObjDef1 = ObjDef.OccList();   => this is now an array of all occurences

So you could do it like this:

oObjOccList = ObjDef.OccList();

oObjOcc = oObjOccList[0];    // or iterate through all occs in oObjOccList

sSymbolName = oObjOcc.SymbolName()

BR Robert

Hello Kshama,

an object Definition has only got the "Default symbol", which you can query with

oObjDef.getDefaultSymbolNum() or getDefaultSymbolGUID() - which suits you best.

That is the symbol, that is shown in the explorer tree and would be chosen if you copied the object definition from the explorer to a model as a new occurrence (provided the filter does not prescribe a different symbol for that object type in that model type).

Otherwise only occurrences have symbols. Those are the symbols shown in the models. The same object might occur multiple times with different symbols. For example you could have multiple occurrences of the same function (definition) in the same VACD model each with a different symbol.

Regards, M. Zschuckelt