SKILL approach to detach labels from pin

With the label object, do labelId~>parent=nil - this will detach it.

Andrew

With the label object, do labelId~>parent=nil - this will detach it.

Andrew

Thanks Andrew.

Even though the 'geGetSelSet()~>parent' shows nil, its still attached to a 'dot'.  I'm unable to get the label detached from the dot pin.

I am guessing that the label is not in fact a label in that case, but a textDisplay. If you (say) create a dot pin and have a label attached (and don't have the "Create as Label" checked on the options form for creating the associated label), it will be created as a textDisplay. If you then set the parent on the textDisplay to be nil, then it is actually detached from the pin figure, and so if you move the pin figure the "label" won't move with it. The textDisplay is however still associated with the terminal - because it displays the terminal name.

However, if you delete the dot pin (and there's only a single pin for a given terminal name), then the terminal gets deleted, and because there's nothing for the textDisplay to be associated with, the textDIsplay goes too. You can see this behaviour more clearly if you create two dot pins with associated textDisplays for the same terminal name. Then set the parent for each textDisplay to nil. If you then delete either dot pin, the two textDisplay objects remain. If you delete the second dot pin, they both are removed - because at that point, the terminal gets cleaned up.

Try selecting the "label" and doing: geGetSelSet()~>objType and seeing if it reports ("label") or ("textDisplay")

I can''t think of any other explanation...

Andrew