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Partial v. Full select in the layout - how does geTogglePartialSelect() work?

DanielDing over 7 years ago

Folks,

This has been having me puzzled for a while..

In the layout, there are 2 types of selections: partial and full, which can be set at least in 3 ways:

(1) envSetVal("layout" "partialSelect" t/nil)

(2) geXLSelectForm->geSelectionMode->value = "Full"

(3) geTogglePartialSelect(), which is equivalent to pressing F4 on keyboard

Question is, what is eventually changed by these different approaches, so that the layout editor knows whether to use partial or full selection?

I tried envGetVal("layout" "partialSelect") and envGetVal("graphic" "partialSelect"), but as their values are changed by (1) above, (2) and (3) does not change their values..

This makes it impossible to infer the current selection mode inside my custom skill program.

Please kindly help!

Daniel

Andrew Beckett over 7 years ago

Hi Daniel,

The way that the tool knows is via window property, partialSelect. So you can use hiGetCurrentWindow()~>partialSelect to determine the current state (you can also change the state via this property). The cdsenv variable is used to determine what the partialSelect on the window should be set to when a new window is opened.

Regards,

Andrew
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DanielDing over 7 years ago in reply to Andrew Beckett

Awesome, this works perfectly! Thanks much, Andrew.

-Daniel
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