How to continue execute a skill script after a form popup in layout ?

Hi Gong,

I think you'd want to do:

procedure(self_align()
  hiEnqueueCmd("leAlignSelSetForm->layerField_2->value=hiLayerMatchCyclicStr(leAlignSelSetForm->layerField_2->choices \"NW (drawing)\")")
  leHiAlign()
)

I'm not sure which version you're using but in in recent IC versions it's changed to no longer by a layer cyclic field. So you'd do:

procedure(self_align()
  hiEnqueueCmd("leAlignSelSetForm->layerField_2->value=\"NW drawing\"")
  leHiAlign()
)

Regards,

Andrew.

Hi，Andrew！

First method work for me！

Thanks a lot!

Gong

I did not know about hiEnqueueCmd, so I had been using hiRegTimer for driving blocking forms. 

If hiEnqueueCmd is what I should have been using, than what is hiRegTimer's raison d'être?

Andrew,

I don't quite understand why this works...cdnshelp says hiEnqueueCmd(<cmd>) executes <cmd> after returning from the current function which is self_allign(). However self_align() doesn't return any time before the blocking leHiAlign() returns. So what exactly does hiEnqueueCmd and when is <cmd> executed??

thx

Max

Max, Tom,

hiEnqueueCmd is effectively the same as hiRegTimer with 0 as the time (sort of). What it does is insert a command into the queue of SKILL commands to be executed when the UI responds; it's similar to the fact that you might have a blocking function (which doesn't return until the form has been OK'd for example) but yet you can still type SKILL functions in the CIW. It is not dependent upon self_align returning.

Tom, hiRegTimer is still useful if you want to schedule something some time in the future (i.e. a non-0 number of 10ths of a second in the future). Also, if my memory is correct, hiRegTimer existed for a very long time but hiEnqueueCmd is relatively recent (I'm sure even that has been around for a long time though). So I tend to use it for its semantic benefits - it more clearly signals the intent when you read it in code.

Regards,

Andrew.

Thanks,Andrew!

That's great !!!!

Gong