DrawingObjectSelector Class

The DrawingObjectSelector class is used to select drawing objects in the drawing. The class contains methods for selecting/unselecting single objects or a list of objects. Currently, these selections both select the objects from the database and highlight them visually.

Inheritance Hierarchy

SystemObject
Tekla.Structures.Drawing.UIDrawingObjectSelector

Namespace: Tekla.Structures.Drawing.UI
Assembly: Tekla.Structures.Drawing (in Tekla.Structures.Drawing.dll) Version: 2023.0.3

Syntax

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public sealed class DrawingObjectSelector

Public NotInheritable Class DrawingObjectSelector

The DrawingObjectSelector type exposes the following members.

Methods

	Name	Description
	GetSelected	Gets the selected objects in the drawing.
	SelectObject	Selects a single object in the drawing.
	SelectObjects	Selects the specified drawing objects in the drawing.
	UnselectAllObjects	Unselects all the selected objects.
	UnselectObject	Unselects a drawing object.
	UnselectObjects	Unselects the specified drawing objects keeping the other objects still selected.

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Examples

In the following example, the lines in the drawing are selected first. The selection is then extended with circles and finally all the selected objects in the drawing are gotten.

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using Tekla.Structures.Drawing;
using System;
using System.Collections;

public class Example
{
       Drawing MyCurrentDrawing = new GADrawing();
       DrawingHandler drawingHandler = new DrawingHandler();

       ArrayList GetDrawingObjectsByType(Type objectType)
       {
           ArrayList ObjectsToBeSelected = new ArrayList();

           foreach(DrawingObject drawingObject in MyCurrentDrawing.GetSheet().GetAllObjects())
           {
               if(drawingObject.GetType() == objectType)
               {
                   ObjectsToBeSelected.Add(drawingObject);
               }
           }

           return ObjectsToBeSelected;
       }

       public void Example1()
       {
           ArrayList MyLines = GetDrawingObjectsByType(typeof(Line));
           if(MyLines.Count > 0)
           {
               drawingHandler.GetDrawingObjectSelector().SelectObjects(MyLines, false);
           }
       }

       public void Example2()
       {
           ArrayList MyCircles = GetDrawingObjectsByType(typeof(Circle));
           if(MyCircles.Count > 0)
           {
               drawingHandler.GetDrawingObjectSelector().SelectObjects(MyCircles, true);
           }
       }

       public void Example3()
       {
           foreach(DrawingObject drawingObject in drawingHandler.GetDrawingObjectSelector().GetSelected())
           {
               if(drawingObject is Line)
               {
                   Line line = drawingObject as Line;
                   // Do something with the line.
               }
               else if(drawingObject is Circle)
               {
                   // Do something with the circle.
               }
           }
       }
}

Reference

Tekla.Structures.Drawing.UI Namespace