Create graphical Hotspots from a marco called Object

[Samantha Mar Braga]

Which is the best way to get the graphical hotspots from a macro called object with several instance in a parent one?
I tried that hotspotID and the angle rotation takes the value from a parameter an change in to a single “call” command, but it doesn’t work

[Péter Baksa]

Hi Samantha,

are you trying to make editable hotspots, or fixed ones?

Péter Baksa
Library Platform, Software Engineer
GRAPHISOFT SE

[Samantha Mar Braga]

Hi Péter! Thanks for the quick answer!
I’m trying to make the editable hotspots the magenta ones.

[Péter Baksa]

If you need different rotations in each instance, you have to use a different parameter in each. The hotspot uses the parameter belonging to the parent object, not the macro.
A solution for this could be that you pass an array of rotations, and an index telling which one to use from the array for the hotspot.

An example with simpler length editing:
parent:

for i = 1 to 2
	call "testmacro" parameters x = x, i = i
	line2 0, 0, x[i], 0
	add2 0, 0.1
next i
del 2

macro:

unID = (i - 1) * 3 + 1

hotspot2 0,	0,	unID, x[i], 1 + 128	: unID = unID + 1
hotspot2 x[i],	0,	unID, x[i], 2		: unID = unID + 1
hotspot2 -1,	0,	unID, x[i], 3 		: unID = unID + 1

parameters in both:
x as length array
i as integer

Péter Baksa
Library Platform, Software Engineer
GRAPHISOFT SE

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