Autocad.net: draworder-change display order of the entities in the drawing

Public classDrawordertable:

Autodesk. AutoCAD. databaseservices. dbobject

Member

Autodesk. AutoCAD. databaseservices

Summary:

Is the persistent container for draw order information. It resides in the extension dictionary of an associated blocktablerecord under the key acad_sortents.

Methods

Method	Description
Firstentityisdrawnbeforesecond	Returns true if first is drawn before second.
Getfulldraworder	System Returns an collection of the entity object IDs of the block in the order in which they wocould be...More
Getrelativedraworder	Rearranges the object IDs in the input array into their current relative draw order. When one or more bits...More
Getsorthandle	Given an input Object ID, this function returnsHandleThat indicates the draw order. Entities with lesser handle values...More
Moveabve	Places all the entities specified in the input Object ID array above the specified target entity. The entities being moved...More
Movebelow	Places all the entities specified in the input Object ID array below the specified target entity. The entities being moved...More
Movetobottom	Places all the entities specified in the input Object ID array at the beginning of the draw order. The entities...More
Movetotop	Places all the entities specified in the input Object ID array at the ending of the draw order. The entities...More
Setrelativedraworder	Takes the object IDs in the input collection and moves them in their current associated draw order slots so that...More
Swaporder	Swaps the draw order positions of the entities.

 

Sample Code:

Draworder # Region Draworder

[Commandmethod ( " Drawordertest " )]
Public   Void Drawordertest ()
{
Document Doc = Application. documentmanager. mdiactivedocument;
Database DB = Application. documentmanager. mdiactivedocument. database;
Editor ed = Doc. Editor;
Objectid id1 = Objectid. null;
Objectid Id2 = Objectid. null;

Try
{
Using (Transaction tr = DB. transactionmanager. starttransaction ())
{
Blocktable BT = (Blocktable) tr. GetObject (db. blocktableid, openmode. forwrite, False );
Blocktablerecord BTR = (Blocktablerecord) tr. GetObject (BT [blocktablerecord. modelspace], openmode. forwrite, False );
// Get the drawordertable
Drawordertable ordertable = Tr. GetObject (BTR. drawordertableid, openmode. forwrite) As Drawordertable;

Promptentityoptions entopt =   New Promptentityoptions ( " \ Nselect first " );
Promptentityresult entres = Ed. getentity (entopt );
If (Entres. Status ! = Promptstatus. OK) Return ;
Id1 = Entres. objectid;

Entopt. Message =   " \ Nselect second " ;
Do
{
Entres = Ed. getentity (entopt );
If (Entres. Status ! = Promptstatus. OK) Return ;
Id2 = Entres. objectid;
Entopt. Message =   " \ Nyou selected one and the same entity, select again " ;
}   While (Id2 = Id1 );

If (Id1 ! = Objectid. null && Id2 ! = Objectid. null)
{
// If (ordertable. firstentityisdrawnbeforesecond (id1, Id2 )) // Why it will be crash?
{
// Ordertable. swaporder (id1, Id2 ); // Why it didn't execute?

Objectidcollection IDS =   New Objectidcollection ();
IDs. Add (id1 );
Ordertable. moveabve (IDs, Id2 ); // It's OK.
// Ordertable. movebelow (IDs, Id2 ); // It's OK.
// Ordertable. movetobottom (IDS ); // It's OK.
// Ordertable. movetotop (IDS ); // It's OK.
}
}
Tr. Commit ();
}
}
Catch (Autodesk. AutoCAD. runtime. Exception exc)
{

}
}

# Endregion