Catia Macro: Get Screen Coordinates of All items in Drawing View

[jagandeep]

I am in the process of creating BOM Ballons Macro. I am doing it hard way i.e.

1.Start.Command "Balloon"
2. Move Mouse Cursor to Drawing View Area (SetCursorPos WinApi)
3. Simulate Click Event (mouse_event WinApi)
4. Move Mouse Again
5. Simulate Click Event
6. Sendkeys "{Enter}"

I need to do it for each and every item for which I have to create balloons. Now the problem is how to get screen co-ordinates (i.e. x,y coordinates from top left of monitor screen) for each and every part for balloon creation ?

See Attached Picture for more info

Is it possible somehow ?? Please help.

 

[jagandeep]

BUMP
Anybody please help

 

[GELFS]

Hello JajAndeep,

Here are some thoughts on how you can deel with your problem. You need to use Windows API functions and a programming language which can deal with graphics (.NET languages can do that).

Step O: Create two Bitmap object (lets call them Base and Aux)and store an image of your drawing area in Base. Start Ballon command.
Step 1: Move mouse to the first/next black pixel of Base. On the screen some pixels will turn to orange color.
Step 2: Store an image of your drawing area in Aux.
Step 3. Compare Aux to Base and set the changed pixels to a specific, but in each loop different, color in Base.
Step 4. Loop to Step 1 until end of Base object.
Step 5. For each different color in Base choose a pixel and click on it.

(In the past I used a graphics processing method to deal with the Specification Tree of CATIA.)

I hope it helps.


-GEL

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