Shouldn't I be able to copy a code from the forum and paste it to a pc-dmis program?
This floored me when I found out that you can't, because I had previously programmed Geomeasure where you can.
PC-DMIS's Edit Window (Command Mode FTW!) is not text. It is a grid of cells, like Excel, that overlays a very deep tangle of computer programming code.
Some cells in blue are user-editable, some in black are locked in place. Each cell one is more or less the cover of a book of lots and lots of "deep code" inside it.
Think about the number of machine movements and probe-comp direction changes that MUST be changed when you hover-mouse and click to toggle the type of autocircle from IN to OUT, the deep code handles that for you. That one cell is not a few digits of text, it is much more powerful.
What you CAN do, however, is:
1) copy-and-paste between open programs, as long as you keep alignment names identical.
2) copy-and-paste VB script code from teh itardwebz into Notepad and have PC-DMIS run it as a Basic Script (welcome to the code section!).
Shouldn't I be able to copy a code from the forum and paste it to a pc-dmis program?
This floored me when I found out that you can't, because I had previously programmed Geomeasure where you can.
PC-DMIS's Edit Window (Command Mode FTW!) is not text. It is a grid of cells, like Excel, that overlays a very deep tangle of computer programming code.
Some cells in blue are user-editable, some in black are locked in place. Each cell one is more or less the cover of a book of lots and lots of "deep code" inside it.
Think about the number of machine movements and probe-comp direction changes that MUST be changed when you hover-mouse and click to toggle the type of autocircle from IN to OUT, the deep code handles that for you. That one cell is not a few digits of text, it is much more powerful.
What you CAN do, however, is:
1) copy-and-paste between open programs, as long as you keep alignment names identical.
2) copy-and-paste VB script code from teh itardwebz into Notepad and have PC-DMIS run it as a Basic Script (welcome to the code section!).
