GRIP setting for directory variable 1

gergs · Aug 17, 2005

Hey guys,

See code below. I want to open a part from a directory by reading a system variable in GRIP. This ones yakking. Any ideas???

I can use this structure in other areas to map to a directory. But GRIP doesnt like it. It cant find the path to open he part. I want to be able to read a standard directory on an NT machine that may be on different drives for each users machine when it loads. Im using the UG install right now but may change. Problem is it wont read this to start with.

Thanks!!!

NUMBER/RSP
STRING/PNAM(80)
DATA/PNAM,'${UGII_BASE_DIR}\mypart.prt'

CHOOSE/'Start seed Part',$
'Exit',$
'Continue',$
DEFLT,1,RSP
JUMP/EXIT:,EXIT:,,,EXIT:,GO:,RSP
$$____________________________________________________________________

GO:

print/PNAM

FETCH/PART,PNAM
$$_____________________________________________________________________
EXIT:
HALT

looslib · Aug 17, 2005

You need to tell UG what the environment variable is set to. GRIP doesn't know how to read them directly.

part_dir = envvar/ugii_base_dir,ask

pnam = part_dir + '\mypart.prt'

We defined a system environment variable for the directory separator (/ or\) depending on if the system was Unix or Windows. Then we did this in our programs:
dir_del=envvar/'IR_DELIM',ask
partnam=part_dir+dir_del+'mypart.prt'

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GRIP setting for directory variable 1

gergs

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