DistanceValueCommandInput.expression Property

Parent Object: DistanceValueCommandInput
Defined in namespace "adsk::core" and the header file is <Core/UserInterface/DistanceValueCommandInput.h>

Description

Gets or sets the expression displayed in the input field. This can contain equations and references to parameters but must result in a valid length expression. If units are not specified as part of the expression, the default units for the design are used.

"distanceValueCommandInput_var" is a variable referencing a DistanceValueCommandInput object.

# Get the value of the property.
propertyValue = distanceValueCommandInput_var.expression

# Set the value of the property.
distanceValueCommandInput_var.expression = propertyValue

"distanceValueCommandInput_var" is a variable referencing a DistanceValueCommandInput object.

#include <Core/UserInterface/DistanceValueCommandInput.h>

// Get the value of the property.
string propertyValue = distanceValueCommandInput_var->expression();

// Set the value of the property, where value_var is a string.
bool returnValue = distanceValueCommandInput_var->expression(value_var);

Property Value

This is a read/write property whose value is a string.

Samples

Command Inputs API Sample

Creates a command dialog that demonstrates all of the available command inputs.

To use the sample, create a new Python or C++ script and copy and paste this code, replacing the default code. You also need to unpack this zip file which contains a resource folder into the same folder where the source code file (.py or .cpp) is.

Version

Introduced in version January 2016