I use it to check settings in existing objects and modify them to new values then set a ‘flag’ parameter to say it has been done so it does not get checked again.
I don’t want this to happen in the GDL editor as I need to save the object with the ‘flag’ parameter set to 0 so I filter that with GLOB_CONTEXT <> 1.
This way it does not reset in the GDL editor but only when the object scripts are run in the model.
!!set page type for existing objects so they don't default to wrong object
if GLOB_CONTEXT <> 1 then
if flag = 0 then
if category = "LIGHTING" then
if ind_objects = "MOTION SENSOR" then
page_type = "SUPERSEDED"
else
page_type = "LIGHTING"
endif
endif
if category = "POWER" then
page_type = "POWER"
endif
if category = "DATA & SECURITY" then
if ind_objects = "NX4 ALARM PANEL" then
page_type = "SUPERSEDED"
else
page_type = "DATA & SECURITY"
endif
endif
if category = "TELSTRA VELOCITY" then
if STRSTR(ind_objects, "TELSTRA VELOCITY") > 0 then
page_type = "SUPERSEDED"
endif
endif
PARAMETERS page_type = page_type
flag = 1
PARAMETERS flag = flag
endif
endif
A similar situation was posted here in Archicad Talk … https://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=50571
Barry.
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