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

Clint,

As I mentioned in the separate email discussion, having discussed with R&D, there is no function to truly get the "snapped" X and Y (and hence dX and dY) values. The snapping is actually done by the application - and may vary depending on the command currently being performed - so it's actually not that straightforward to emulate in all cases. However, I think the way you've done it is a reasonable compromise. I have filed an enhancement request to get hold of the XY value from the banner - because the "hi" interface knows what the current snapped value is in order to display in the banner and also to update the cursor location - but that will be for a future release.

In terms of implementing your additional bindkey, I would not try to do it by interfacing with the leHiCopy() function and piggybacking on the form. For a start, the form identifier will vary depending on how many technologies you have open. Secondly it's blocking, so you'd have to start messing with hiRegTimer() to ensure your updates got applied. Thirdly you're tied to private information about the field names on the form, and these may (and indeed have) changed over time. For example, I don't think the callback was called that in the version I tried.

So a better approach is probably to implement a function like this:

procedure(abMoveOrCopyByDelta(function delta @optional selectNew)
    let((new (win hiGetCurrentWindow()) cvId (transform (list delta "R0" 1)))
        when(delta && listp(delta) && numberp(xCoord(delta)) && 
            numberp(yCoord(delta)) && !cddr(delta)
            cvId=geGetEditCellView(win)
            new=foreach(mapcar fig geGetSelSet(win)
                funcall(function fig cvId transform)
            )
            when(selectNew
                geDeselectAll(win)
                foreach(fig new
                    geSelectFig(fig)
                )
            )
            new
        )
    )
)

hiSetBindKey("Layout" "Meta<Key>=" "abMoveOrCopyByDelta('dbCopyFig abGetDxDy.lastDelta)")

The function copes with both copy and move. You can call:

abMoveOrCopyByDelta('dbMoveFig abGetDxDy.lastDelta)

and also if you want the copy to select the newly copied figures, you would do:

abMoveOrCopyByDelta('dbCopyFig abGetDxDy.lastDelta t)

Note that in the implementation of abGetDxDy above it is using ~>snapMode - I think it should be ~>segSnapMode as that's what is updated by the copy command (that's the "edit" snap mode rather than the "create" snap mode).

Regards,

Andrew.

Hello, I was interested in implementing what was discussed in this thread and would like to know if there were any new developments in how this could be implemented. We use ICADV12.1 and 12.3 depending on the project. Is it possible there is a simpler implementation for the delta value calculation for example?

Thanks very much,

Pete

I don’t think anything has changed related to this.

Regards,

Andrew.

I don’t think anything has changed related to this.

Regards,

Andrew.