Available Methods of objects ?

Hi Oliver,

Here are some tips:

• You can find the list of main PML objects under this chapter: https://help.aveva.com/AVEVA_Everything3D/3.1/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/wwhelp.htm#href=SCRM/SCRM3.3.13.html#1414366
• For those not listed there, you can see if their source code is accessible, with the command !!pmldefinition('ObjectName'). If the PML object 'ObjectName' is defined in one of your PMLLIB, you will get its path with this command
• You can retrieve the methods available on any PML object with a q var !objectInstance.methods(). This one might be useful for your Drawlist example

Regarding the IDE for PML, you can look at VSCode. There are existing extensions for PML. And you can also code your own PML extension without much effort (which I did in my case).

Finally, if you are at a stage where you want more advanced features, like being able to debug your code, you should instead look at .NET: https://help.aveva.com/AVEVA_Everything3D/3.1/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/wwhelp.htm#href=NCUG/NCUG_FP.html

You will thus be able to go much further than PML (better performances, freedom for UI, multithreading, advanced OOP concepts...).

Hi Leo

Really appreciate that response. I will look into all this.

I recently became aware of VScode, however as I understand it it's not installed by default and for the most part companies are not going to install it if I want to use it. Like VBA in excel or other programs, it should just be there and people should be able to access if they wish to.

I have programmed quite a bit in a few languages, but a long time ago and only recently became interested in PML, even though I have used E3D/PDMS for 20+ years. I am finding it frustrating at times and a bit of a grind.

This "q var !objectInstance.methods()" is fabulous and gave me exactly what i wanted and I will be using it a lot

Thank you

Perfect! With pleasure

use notepad++ with plugin PML, that will help you a lot