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Two fucntions with same bindkey(cycling fucntions by same bindkey)

Leonardo Vinci

I have 2 functions(say A and B) only differing in putting different widths of metals. The functions works well, but i want to assign only one bind key to execute them. For eg: 

I selected an instance by mouse click and press "Shift+1" so function A should execute. But if i press again "Shift+1" (instance being selected), then it should undo function A and instead function B should execute. Is there any way to do this?

so overall that means, if i select an instance and press "Shift+1" only 1 time, function A only should execute and if i press "Shift+1" totally 2 times, then only function B should execute.

I hope i made myself clear for you to understand.

Thanks! 

Leonardo Da Vinci

  • Leonardo,

    The way you would normally do this is to store some "state" as a property on the object, and then use that to determine which function to apply. Maybe if all the function is doing is setting the width of the path (if that's what it's doing?) then you could use the current width as the state rather than storing another user-defined property on the object.

    The reason for storing it on the object itself is that presumably if you select one thing, hit the bindkey once (runs A) then twice (runs B) but then select another object and press the bindkey it should run A for that object.

    Andrew.

  • in reply to Andrew Beckett

    Sorry, I see now that functions A and B do differ in calculations too.  

  • in reply to Leonardo Vinci
    Leonardo Vinci said:
    Sorry, I see now that functions A and B do differ in calculations too.

    That doesn't help a great deal - I have no idea what you're doing, so I had to reply in rather vague generalities...

    Andrew.

  • in reply to Andrew Beckett

    By "state" what do you mean Andrew?

  • in reply to Leonardo Vinci

    It's like a finite state machine - you do something like:

    procedure(MyDoAorB()
      foreach(obj geGetSelSet()
        if(obj~>MyA_done then
          B(obj)
        else
          A(obj)
          obj~>MyA_done=t
        )
      )
    )

    then have MyDoAorB() on your bindkey (note, this is assuming that the functions B and A accept a single object to work on - I don't know what your functions do). I'm explicitly recording a property on the object to say that A has been done already. If the functions were to set the width to 1.0 or 2.0 then you could do:

    procedure(MyDoAorB()
       foreach(obj geGetSelSet()
         if(obj~>width==1.0 then
           B(obj) ; presumably set width to 2.0
         else
           A(obj) ; presumably set width to 1.0
         )
      )
    )

    i.e. you're using the width attribute on the object as the "state" to know what has previously been done. 

    I'm still guessing what you're doing, but trying to give some kind of idea as to how you'd approach this.

    Regards,

    Andrew.

  • in reply to Andrew Beckett

    Thanks Andrew i will try. 

    Thanks once again!

    LeO

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