DLNames activated or not? How to know.

[AlvaroPers]

Is it a way to know through code if DLName is activated?
I don't see such a method under the "DLNameSettingAtt".

 

[AlvaroPers]

After a little research in this topic, I found that although you can grab the code using the damping function in the option dialog box, it is not possible to know if the current CATIA session is working with DLNames or folder as current.
If anyone has an idea about this, please share it.

Thx.

 

[Little Cthulhu]

CATSettings have pretty straightforward binary format and can be parsed.

 

[AlvaroPers]

Thank you for the replay.

I understand you point, I'm able to read the file, in this case I can read the "DocEnv.CATSettings"
Then, I can decoded using "Unicode" for example. But then how do I proceed?

For example:

Dim bteRead() As Byte
bteRead = File.ReadAllBytes("D:\_V5R21\CATReferenceSettingPath\DocEnv.CATSettings")


Private Function UnicodeBytesToString(bytes() As Byte) As String
Return System.Text.Encoding.Unicode.GetString(bytes)
End Function


Thank you.