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How to Retrieve the value of dX and dY in the current window

ClintMeyer

I would like to create a script that will automatically move whatever I have selected in a layout window by the same amount as the last move.  The last move/copy/stretch relative distance is displayed in the layout window as dX and dY (standing for delta X and delta Y i presume).  Is there a skill function that returns that value?  I looked under the hiGetCurrentWindow() and it was not there.

 Thanks for any help

 Clint

 

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    Andrew

     Brilliant!!!  I really like how concise the code is.  I can start to understand it.  It is so close to what I need I can smell it.  I found 2 things

    1) I had to remove the (t) from MouseAddPt() in the bindkey as no argument is needed.

    2) This one is a bit trickier.  Around 1/2 of the time when a layout designer is manipulating data, the SnapMode will be Orthogonal so the mouse cursor accuracy is only sensitive to 1 axis rather than 2.  This saves the layout designer time because when he is certain that the final location is orthogonal to the reference click, the VLE "cursor" (either a box or a dotted line cross shape) will be orthogonal to the reference point .  This "VLE cursor" will almost always be different than the mouse cursor when moving/copying/stretching with SnapMode set to Orthogonal. The hiGetCommandPoint() returns the position of the mouse cursor not the VLE cursor.  I looked through Finder and tried as many cursor type commands as I could find to see if one would display the VLE cursor position upon click, but they all seemed to use the mouse cursor.  I tried hiGetDbuPoint and others.

    Thanks again for the help.

     Clint 

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  • ClintMeyer

    Andrew

     Brilliant!!!  I really like how concise the code is.  I can start to understand it.  It is so close to what I need I can smell it.  I found 2 things

    1) I had to remove the (t) from MouseAddPt() in the bindkey as no argument is needed.

    2) This one is a bit trickier.  Around 1/2 of the time when a layout designer is manipulating data, the SnapMode will be Orthogonal so the mouse cursor accuracy is only sensitive to 1 axis rather than 2.  This saves the layout designer time because when he is certain that the final location is orthogonal to the reference click, the VLE "cursor" (either a box or a dotted line cross shape) will be orthogonal to the reference point .  This "VLE cursor" will almost always be different than the mouse cursor when moving/copying/stretching with SnapMode set to Orthogonal. The hiGetCommandPoint() returns the position of the mouse cursor not the VLE cursor.  I looked through Finder and tried as many cursor type commands as I could find to see if one would display the VLE cursor position upon click, but they all seemed to use the mouse cursor.  I tried hiGetDbuPoint and others.

    Thanks again for the help.

     Clint 

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