Application

[Desktop Automation]

application is not a Lua object that can be created and released. It is a global variable. It facilitates access to the current running Netfabb desktop application. In addition, it generates GUI dialogs.

• Properties
• Methods

Properties

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Methods

Name	Syntax	Description
createdialog	dialog:object = application:createdialog()	Create a Dialog object. See here for a description of the GUI objects.
createfolder	application:(path:String)	Creates a folder at the specified location. Does not create intermediate folder levels; for example, starting at D:, D:\temp1\ must be created explicitly before D:\temp1\temp2\ can be created.
createtaskhandler	taskhandler:object = system:createtaskhandler (url:String, name:String, userid:String, serverkey:String)	Creates a Netfabb taskhandler object. url is http://localhost:8651/tasks/, for example, name is the worker displayname, userid and serverkey are used in authentication.
getappdatadirectory	myappdatafolder:string = system:getappdatadirectory();	Returns the full AppData\Roaming path
getenvironmentvariable	result:string = application:getenvironmentvariable(Variable: string)	Returns an environment variable as a string
getluascriptfromlibrary	result:string = application:getluascriptfromlibrary(scriptname: string)	Returns a Lua script as a string from the Netfabb Lua library. The name must match the name in the Netfabb Lua library.
gettimestamp	application:gettimestamp()	Gets current time in seconds since 1970-01-01.
loadappserverhublist	hublist = application:loadappserverhublist(URL:String, passphrase:String)	Loads the list of available hubs for the current (logged-in) user from the Netfabb Application Server. url is the server connect string, http://127.0.0.1:8650/ by default, identical to the respective Netfabb setting: passphrase is empty by default.
loadappserverproject	result:Boolean = application: loadappserverproject(url:String, projectid:String, folderid:String, itemid:String, userid:String, passphrase:String)	Loads a project from a local server into the application. This discards any previously loaded project. userid and passphrase are optional parameters. Returns true when successful.
loadfabbproject	result:Boolean = application:loadfabbproject(filename: String)	Loads a FABBPROJECT file
overwriteexistingappserverproject	result:Boolean = application:overwriteexistingappserverproject(url: String, projectid:String,folderid:String, itemname:String, userid:String, passphrase:String)	Saves the current application project on local server, overwrites an existing project. Returns true when successful. userid and passphrase are optional.
retrieveglobalvariable	result:String = application:retrieveglobalvariable(key: String)	Retrieve a global variable stored with application:storeglobalvariable.
savenewappserverproject	result:Boolean = application:savenewappserverproject(url: String, projectid:String,folderid:String, projectname:String, userid:String, passphrase:String)	Saves the current project in the application onto a local server. Returns true if successful. userid and passphrase are optional.
savecurrentproject	result:Boolean = Application:savecurrentproject()	Saves the current project in the application, returns true when done.
savefabbproject	result:Boolean = application:savefabbproject (filename:String)	Saves the current state of Netfabb as FABBPROJECT file.
storeglobalvariable	application:storeglobalvariable (key: String, value: String)	Store a global variable available to all Lua desktop scripts during application runtime.
triggerdesktopevent	application:triggerdesktopevent('updateparts')	Triggers an event. The event updateparts triggers an update of the displayed meshes in Netfabb.

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