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I just created an object and need to get that database ID to use in the next command

Michael Kolesnik

Another seemly simple request that I cannot find the easy solution

1. I create a path : leCreatePath(...info...) and it returns a database ID

2. I need to get that ID to use in my next command but don't see how.

You would think that ID is stored in a stack or something.

I could always get it out of the CDS.log file but that seems ridiculous 

-Mike

  • Hi Mike,

    What is displayed in the CIW and the CDS.log would not help you anyway - that's just the print representation of a database object (it helps you to see if two objects are the same) - but you cannot start from this print representation and pass it to a function.

    Instead you need to use the return value of the function - either by assigning to a variable, or by nesting the call within another function call. For example:

    cv=geGetEditCellView()
    path=leCreatePath(...info...)
    dbMoveFig(path cv 10:5)

    or:

    dbMoveFig(leCreatePath(...info...) geGetEditCellView() 10:5)

    Essentially the function returns a database object (for which the print representation is db:xxxxxx) - you just need to pass that around to any function that needs it.

    Regards,

    Andrew.

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