Handle and OwnerId

It looks like the Handle property is missing on some objects. Specifically Block, Blocks, Layers, LineTypes, ModelSpace and a few more. The handle og the Block class is all I care about and actually need. Any chance of this property popping up in the near future?The OwnerId that most classes in the AutoCAD object model has is nowhere to be seen. I suppose that the Parent property is the replacement of this. While I agree that the Parent property is a better way to go than an OwnerId property and an ObjectIdToObject method, this is another major difference between AutoCAD and BricsCAD that makes it harder to support both.

Comments

  • You are right about the missing Handle property on some of the COM objects. Per your request we will add this to the development schedule for the coming weeks, which means it should become available in a release build say 2 months from now.

  • This is so cool! To have the developnent team actually listen to you, that is. I have done development work with Autodesk products for ten years now without this ever happening. No new API, in five years they haven't even bothered fixing the bugs in the VBA implementation! Now I wish scraping AutoCAD was an option.Thanks, Hans.

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