Full PathName of MasterCam drawing

[rocheey1]

Im trying to get the full path/filename of the mastercam drawing in my post.

'smcname' seems to return the drawing name only, without the path

 

I tried dumping all params with:

"pparameter", ~prmcode$, ~sparameter$, e$

and it didnt show up.

 

The NCI shows it right at the beginning, first two lines.

 

I defined a string var up top:

sLongName : ""

in the pcomment2 section, I added :

if gcode$ = 1050, sLongName =(sparameter$, 9)

 

nothing. Tried:

if gcode$ = 1050, sLongName = scomm$

still empty.

 

Anybody wanna help ?

[Chris McIntosh]

There are some General rules for pulling parameters. First, you need to pull the parameters in pparameter$ or pwrttparam$.

 

There you need to use the prmcode that matches with the output value you are looking for:

 

if prmcode$ = XXXXXX, slongname = ucase(sparameter$) <-- used for when a parameter holds a single string

or

if prmcode$ = XXXXXX, slongname = rpar(sparameter$,Y) <-- used for when a parameter holds Y values seperated by single spaces

 

Hopefully this should give you enough information to do what you need. There is likely examples of the parameter pulls in the post already

 

HTH

[K2csq7]

spathnc$ = ucase(spathnc$)

smcname$ = ucase(smcname$)

 

 

I have that in my pheader postblock,

then this...

 

 

scomm_str, "MCX FILE - ", smcpath$, smcname$, smcext$, scomm_end, e$

 

:edit:

I believe (not positive) the "$" at the end of the variable means it is a predefined variable and does not need to be initialized, formatted, pulled via pparameter, etc....

[rocheey1]

I moved the "if prmcode$ = 1050, sLongName = rpar(sparameter$, 8)" to pparameter$

It still came back empty.

 

There was no pwrttparam$, so I added one, and moved the line there. it didnt get called at all.

 

Isnt rpar used to convert strings to numbers?

[rocheey1]

spathnc$ = ucase(spathnc$)

smcname$ = ucase(smcname$)

 

 

I have that in my pheader postblock,

then this...

 

 

scomm_str, "MCX FILE - ", smcpath$, smcname$, smcext$, scomm_end, e$

 

:edit:

I believe (not positive) the "$" at the end of the variable means it is a predefined variable and does not need to be initialized, formatted, pulled via pparameter, etc....

 

That did the trick! Thank you!

[K2csq7]

Isnt rpar used to convert strings to numbers?

 

Glad you got it working.

 

Here is info on rpar from the V9 post ref guide.

 

rpar

Formula Type Special MP function

Description Extracts the numeric variables from a space-delimited string variable.

The first argument is a string variable with space-delimited values.

The second argument is the number of elements to be read from the

string.

The string is converted and the result array is filled in order, starting

with the numeric variable position of the result numeric variable name.

Form function argument, argument

First Argument string variable

Second Argument numeric variable, value (scalar)

Return Type numeric variable (array)

Formula Code Ex. real_var1 : 0 #User-defined numeric variables

real_var2 : 0

real_var3 : 0

real_var4 : 0

real_var5 : 0

string1 “1.1 2.2 3.3 4.4 5.5”

pblock # A postblock

real_var1 = rpar(string1, 5)

In this example, real_ var1 = 1.1, real_var2 = 2.2, real_var3 = 3.3,

real_var4 = 4.4 and real_var5 = 5.5.

Boolean Code Ex. Not allowed as a Boolean statement

Notes This routine can be used to convert a string variable with a single

number in it to a numeric variable. Set the number of elements to read

to 1.

See Volume 2, Parameter Information for more information.