Hi,
In my application I read a full content of a BOM, and store it's data in DataTable.
User can switch window, can manipulate what he want, but when he switch back to BOM's window, I have to decide if a BOM changed or not based on my last full content reading (content, row order etc).
Is there some fast way to decide or detect this?
Full read is not good option, because in case of large modell there is a lot of times.
Thank you
I found something, and I can store a full "stamp" of a BOM in a variable with this method:
- I can write the table's contentt to a template file with this function: 2013 SOLIDWORKS API Help - SaveAsText Method (ITableAnnotation)
- I read back this template file, and store it's text in a variable
- delete template file
Now I can compare anytime if a BOM changed or not.
The big question, can I directly send the content to a variable instead of a file?
The SaveAsText method needs an input as FileName (full path), can I somehow redirect it to a variable?
I didn't find a solution to redirect SaveAsText uotput to variable, so I use filewrite/read method like in code below.
Comment:
Function CheckTable()
Dim result As Boolean = False
Dim fileName As String = "C:\tempbomtocheck.txt"
Dim saveAsResult = myTable.SaveAsText(fileName, ";")
Dim currentTable As String = String.Join(vbNewLine, readFileByLine(fileName))
If tablePrevious IsNot Nothing Then
result = (tablePrevious = currentTable)
End If
tablePrevious = currentTable
Return result
End Function
I didn't find a solution to redirect SaveAsText uotput to variable, so I use filewrite/read method like in code below.
Comment:
Function CheckTable()
Dim result As Boolean = False
Dim fileName As String = "C:\tempbomtocheck.txt"
Dim saveAsResult = myTable.SaveAsText(fileName, ";")
Dim currentTable As String = String.Join(vbNewLine, readFileByLine(fileName))
If tablePrevious IsNot Nothing Then
result = (tablePrevious = currentTable)
End If
tablePrevious = currentTable
Return result
End Function