Topic: Rotate Jig while placing block with jig

[JohanMagnusson]

Hi everyone.

I'm trying to figure out how to enable the user to rotate the jig/block during insertion.
I want the user to be able to rotate the jig/block with 90 degrees each time user presses spacebar.

I have made some methods so that i can place a block with a jig, and all that works great.

Only place where i can think of geeting the spacebar input is in the overridden Sampler(JigPrompts prompts) method. If i set UserInputControls.NullResponseAccepted then i can get a PromptStatus.None form the prompt that's being returned when spacebar is pressed. But i don't get a insertion point so it messes things up...

When i do this the jig disappears from the screen and the comman gets messed up.

I'm totally lost, need some help, hints, anything that can get me on track to a solution.

[vegbruiser]

Why force the user to use the spacebar at all? Couldn't you simply have the 4 options as a set of PromptKeyWordOptions:

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prko = new PromptKeywordOptions("\nWhat angle would you like?");
prko.Keywords.Add("0");
prko.Keywords.Add("90");
prko.Keywords.Add("180");
prko.Keywords.Add("270");
prko.Keywords.Default = "0";
PromptResult getWhichFloorResult = ed.GetKeywords(prko);


[JohanMagnusson]

Why force the user to use the spacebar at all? Couldn't you simply have the 4 options as a set of PromptKeyWordOptions:

Code: [Select]

prko = new PromptKeywordOptions("\nWhat angle would you like?");
prko.Keywords.Add("0");
prko.Keywords.Add("90");
prko.Keywords.Add("180");
prko.Keywords.Add("270");
prko.Keywords.Default = "0";
PromptResult getWhichFloorResult = ed.GetKeywords(prko);


Trying to avoid that, want to eliminate all typing.
The command is for mass deployment of a specific block, so using only one key to rotate with is much faster than typing the degree every time.

[Bryco]

If the user is only allowed to insert the block with rotations of 0,90,180 & 270 you make your rotate jig only react to 90 deg intervals and Bob's your uncle