Topic: Get list of plot style names from .stb file?

[jmaeding]

I researched this and did not find an answer.
I am making a .net prog to allow you to assign a layer a plot style.
Of course, I want to offer the styles in the .stb attached to the given space.
Any way to do that without having to use a special tool to decompile the stb ahead of time?

Again, I am not looking for the styles already used in the drawing, but the entire list from an stb file.
thanks

[sinc]

Have you looked at the Autodesk.Autocad.Windows.PlotStyleDialog class?

[jmaeding]

hey, now that is a great idea.  Use their dialog instead of re-creating it.
I need to do that for colors too since the lisp getcolor dialog is limited to ACI colors.
As Luis would say, Gracias

[Spike Wilbury]

As Luis would say, Gracias

I guess, you are talking about this Luis.... me


Saludos Jaime !
(James)

[jmaeding]

Saludos Tambien!

Sill me, here I am doing all my lisp dialogs in OpenDcl, and am looking to .net for an answer.
I forgot about the "special" modes you can use for a combobox in ODCL.
One of them is Linetype, one is plot style, one is lineweight.
That covers all three that I needed.
Glad Chad and Owen are doing my job for me 

[jmaeding]

darn IE, cutting me off.

That was silly me, not sill me...

[jmaeding]

Looks like the ODCL only displays plot styles used, not all of them.
Even if I use the .net dialog, it only returns a name.
All that is fine, the user can select a name and I get my hands on it.

My question now is: Is there a way to "bring in" the plot style chosen, if its never been used in the drawing?

In lisp, I am using (setvar "cplotstyle" <name chosen>), then (setvar "cplotstyle" "Bylayer") to set back.
Seems junky but works.  Isn't there another way to pull in plot styles, assuming the stb table is available?

thanks

[sinc]

What I did was use the dialog box mentioned earlier.  As you say, it returns the plots style name.   But I think it also loads the plot style into the current drawing.

However, it seems to be tricky using it.  What I had to do was take the name returned by the dialog box, then get its ObjectId by looking it up in the PlotStyleNameDictionary (retrieved using database.PlotStyleNameDictionaryId).  Then I would use that ObjectId to set the layerTableRecord.PlotStyleNameId.  Note that you should probably also check to see if the active drawing is color-dependent (i.e., if PSTYLEMODE is 1), because attempting to set the plot style in a CTB drawing will throw an exception.

If there's an easier way, I failed to find it.

[jmaeding]

hmm, it did not bring in the style for me.  I'll play more.

[sinc]

The method I used is in the source code posted here, in the AcadUtilities subproject.  Look for the SelectPlotStyleControl and PlotStyleCommandParameter classes.