/// <summary>
/// Returns the value of a specified global constant.
/// </summary>
/// <typeparam name="T">The type to return.</typeparam>
public static T GetGlobalParameter <T>(this SolidEdgeFramework.Application application, SolidEdgeFramework.ApplicationGlobalConstants globalConstant)
{
object value = null;
application.GetGlobalParameter(globalConstant, ref value);
return((T)value);
}
static void CaptureApplicationGlobalConstants(SolidEdgeFramework.Application application, Dictionary <SolidEdgeFramework.ApplicationGlobalConstants, object> dictionary)
{
// Get list of SolidEdgeFramework.ApplicationGlobalConstants names and values.
var enumConstants = Enum.GetNames(typeof(SolidEdgeFramework.ApplicationGlobalConstants)).ToArray();
var enumValues = Enum.GetValues(typeof(SolidEdgeFramework.ApplicationGlobalConstants)).Cast <SolidEdgeFramework.ApplicationGlobalConstants>().ToArray();
// Populate the dictionary.
for (int i = 0; i < enumValues.Length; i++)
{
var enumConstant = enumConstants[i];
var enumValue = enumValues[i];
object value = null;
if (enumValue.Equals(SolidEdgeFramework.ApplicationGlobalConstants.seApplicationGlobalOpenAsReadOnly3DFile))
{
continue;
}
// We can safely ignore seApplicationGlobalSystemInfo. It's just noise for our purpose.
if (enumConstant.Equals(SolidEdgeFramework.ApplicationGlobalConstants.seApplicationGlobalSystemInfo))
{
continue;
}
application.GetGlobalParameter(enumValue, ref value);
dictionary.Add(enumValue, value);
}
}
private void RefreshGlobalParametersListView()
{
if (lvGlobalParameters.Items.Count == 0)
{
List <ListViewItem> listViewItems = new List <ListViewItem>();
SolidEdgeFramework.ApplicationGlobalConstants[] appGlobalConstants = GetAllApplicationGlobalConstants();
foreach (SolidEdgeFramework.ApplicationGlobalConstants appGlobalConstant in appGlobalConstants)
{
string[] itemValues =
{
appGlobalConstant.ToString(),
String.Empty,
String.Empty,
String.Format("SolidEdgeFramework.ApplicationGlobalConstants.{0}", appGlobalConstant.ToString())
};
itemValues[0] = itemValues[0].Replace("seApplicationGlobal", String.Empty).CamelCaseToWordString();
ListViewItem listViewItem = new ListViewItem(itemValues);
listViewItem.ImageIndex = 0;
listViewItem.Tag = appGlobalConstant;
listViewItems.Add(listViewItem);
}
lvGlobalParameters.Items.AddRange(listViewItems.ToArray());
lvGlobalParameters.AutoResizeColumn(0, ColumnHeaderAutoResizeStyle.ColumnContent);
lvGlobalParameters.AutoResizeColumn(2, ColumnHeaderAutoResizeStyle.ColumnContent);
lvGlobalParameters.AutoResizeColumn(3, ColumnHeaderAutoResizeStyle.ColumnContent);
}
try
{
// Register with OLE to handle concurrency issues on the current thread.
SolidEdgeCommunity.OleMessageFilter.Register();
if (_application == null)
{
// Connect to Solid Edge.
_application = SolidEdgeCommunity.SolidEdgeUtils.Connect(true);
// Ensure Solid Edge GUI is visible.
_application.Visible = true;
}
foreach (ListViewItem listViewItem in lvGlobalParameters.Items)
{
SolidEdgeFramework.ApplicationGlobalConstants appGlobalConstant = (SolidEdgeFramework.ApplicationGlobalConstants)listViewItem.Tag;
object globalValue = null;
object globalValueType = null;
try
{
_application.GetGlobalParameter(appGlobalConstant, ref globalValue);
}
catch (System.Exception ex)
{
globalValue = ex;
globalValueType = ex.GetType();
}
if (globalValue != null)
{
if (globalValueType == null)
{
globalValueType = globalValue.GetType();
}
}
listViewItem.SubItems[1].Text = String.Format("{0}", globalValue);
listViewItem.SubItems[1].Tag = globalValue;
listViewItem.SubItems[2].Text = String.Format("{0}", globalValueType);
listViewItem.SubItems[2].Tag = globalValueType;
}
lvGlobalParameters.AutoResizeColumn(2, ColumnHeaderAutoResizeStyle.ColumnContent);
}
catch
{
#if DEBUG
System.Diagnostics.Debugger.Break();
#endif
throw;
}
finally
{
SolidEdgeCommunity.OleMessageFilter.Unregister();
}
}