vbscript question - operation status

[bryan314]

I've looked through my documentation but I haven't found the answer. In MC vbscript given an OperationId how do I determine if the operation is dirty (needs regenerating) or is selected?

 

Bryan

[CAM Disciple]

Are you trying to find which toolpath is dirty than ran RegenOP based on the OperationID?

 

I don't see any funtion that will return that "dirty" flag. Might wanna loop thru all the operation then ran RegenOp for each one.

 

Sorry for not being able to help.

 

Maybe Mick knows!

[bryan314]

Yes, I want to run regen on dirty operations. But I don't want to regen operation that are NOT dirty. Calling regen on all operations will waste a lot of time. Especially on big surface toolpaths.

 

I can do this through a chook no problem but I'd rather do it through a script. I was hoping the vbscript components had progressed far enough for me to do this.

 

Bryan

[Rekd™]

There isn't one that I've seen. There's several things un-available that would make life real nice. Mayhaps by X

 

'Rekd

[bryan314]

ow ow ow

 

Oh well. Back to chooking.

 

Bryan

[CAM Disciple]

Might wanna wait for Version X.

Someone told me that you can do .Net hook in this version.

 

Just a thought.

[bryan314]

Behold the power of vbscripts

 

Just reviving this thread because I though some people might find this useful. The following is a vbscript / chook hybrid. It does what I want so I don't plan on doing much more with it. But I figured others could find it useful.

 

http://ivanxxxx.com/vb_alert_20040308.zip

 

What it does: The vbscript will regenerate operations in the Operation Manger that are dirty (red x) and selected. After they're regenerated it runs an alert.

 

Possible alerts: all done thru vbscript, are:

Play a wav file.

Send an email

Display a message in a pop up box

Log off, Shutdown, Reboot, or Power Off your computer

Speak a message, it uses XP's text to speech engine.

Winamp pause/unpause - requires a 3rd party dll

Or any combinations of these along with anything else vbscript can do.

 

Requirements: Only tested on XP. I doubt it will work on win98 and probably a 50/50 chance on win2000. Sorry. I was recently force upgraded kicking and screeming to XP so I no longer have access to a win98 development environment.

 

the Chook: The chook implements a simple interface that takes an operation id and returns its selected and dirty status. See the vbscript for implementation details. The chook is not bound to this script and can be used in other scripts. Hopefully Mastercam will add this functionality to mc vbscript at some future date.

 

Finally why? This script allows me to do other things while a particualy large surface file is regenerating. I don't have to sit around babysitting my computer for minutes or hours while it regens. I can go do other things, like take a nap.

 

Bryan

[Jody]

Bryan,

 

that is cool I was barely smart enough to change the script to send an email (to me) when the regen was done. now if i wasnt so cheap i could email my cell phone and go out to the truck to take a nap

 

Thanks for sharing with all of us.

Jody

[bryan314]

jagourley,

 

You're welcome

 

Yeah, I probably should have put in my original post that this isn't a beginner’s script. It does require some vbscript knowledge to customize it to your needs.

 

Bryan

[Jody]

Bryan,

 

i did take a class last fall for VB so at least i knew what to look for to change. but i have never been good at starting from a blank screen and writing a program. so for now i just borrow for the rest of you and tweak it to fit me.

 

 

Jody

[bryan314]

jagourley,

 

That's what we all do. No sense in reinventing the square wheel.

 

Bryan