Indexes

SystemService (Object)

Represents an object which provides system services.

Environ: Returns the value of an environment variable.
Evaluate: Evaluates a scripted function.
ExecuteBackgroundProcessus: Executes an asynchronous process.
ExecuteProcessus: Executes a synchronous process.
ExecuteScript: Executes a scripted function.
Print: Prints a string on stdout.

Methods

o Func Environ( iEnvString) As

Returns the value of an environment variable.

Parameters:

iEnvString: The name of the environment variable

Example:

This example retrieves the value of the PATH variable in the Value string.

 Value = CATIA.SystemService.Environ("PATH")

o Func Evaluate(		`iScriptText`,
		`iLanguage`,
		`iFunctionName`,
		`iParameters`) As

Evaluates a scripted function.

Parameters:

iScriptText: The program text
iLanguage: The language the program is written in
iFunctionName: The name of the function to invoke
iParameters: An array of parameters for the function
oResult: The value returned by the function (if any)

Example:

This example executes the function CATMain from the CodeToEvaluate string

 Dim params()
 Dim codeToEvaluate
 CodeToEvaluate = "Sub CATMain()" & vbNewLine & _
                  "MsgBox " & chr(34) & "Hello World" & chr(34) & vbNewLine & _
                  "End Sub"
 CATIA.SystemService.Evaluate CodeToEvaluate, CATVBScriptLanguage, "CATMain", params

o Func ExecuteBackgroundProcessus( iExecutablePath) As

Executes an asynchronous process. This process is launched in background and ExecuteBackgroundProcess doesn't wait for it to complete. If the executable to run needs a specific environment to works correctly (for example environment variables like PATH or LD_LIBRARY_PATH correctly set), this environment must have been set in order to make this method succeed. If this executable needs to be launched from a window, this method will fail.

Parameters:

iExecutablePath: The path of the executable to run and its arguments If the executable is not present in the PATH environment variable, you must specify its complete absolute path. If this path contains blanks, you must enclose it with the simple quote character ''' : for example CATIA.SystemService.ExecuteBackgroundProcess "'C:\Program Files\myApp\myApp.exe' myArg".

Returns:

Non significative return code. It's never the asynchronous process return code

Example:

This example executes the command located at

and doesn't wait the end of its execution.

 CATIA.SystemService.ExecuteBackgroundProcessus ""

o Func ExecuteProcessus( iExecutablePath) As

Executes a synchronous process. If this process is succesfully launched, ExecuteProcessus waits for it to terminate and returns the process return code. If the executable to run needs a specific environment to works correctly (for example environment variables like PATH or LD_LIBRARY_PATH correctly set), this environment must have been set in order to make this method succeed. If this executable needs to be launched from a window, this method will fail.

Parameters:

iExecutablePath: The path of the executable to run and its arguments. If the executable is not present in the PATH environment variable, you must specify its complete absolute path. If this path contains blanks, you must enclose it with the simple quote character ''' : for example CATIA.SystemService.ExecuteProcessus "'C:\Program Files\myApp\myApp.exe' myArg".

Returns:

The synchronous process return code

Example:

This example executes the command located at

waits for it to end, and returns its return code.

 ReturnCode = CATIA.SystemService.ExecuteProcessus("")

o Func ExecuteScript(		`iLibraryName`,
		`iType`,
		`iProgramName`,
		`iFunctionName`,
		`iParameters`) As

Executes a scripted function.

Parameters:

iLibraryName: The library in which the script is contained
iLibraryType: The type of the library
iProgramName: The name of the program in the library
iFunctionName: The name of the function to invoke
iParameters: An array of parameters for the function
oResult: The value returned by the function (if any)

Example:

This example executes the function CATMain in the program Macro1.catvbs contained by Part1.CATPart

 Dim params()
 CATIA.SystemService.ExecuteScript"Part1.CATPart", catScriptLibraryTypeDocument, "Macro1.catvbs", "CATMain", params

o Sub Print( iString)

Prints a string on stdout.

Parameters:

iString: The string to print

Example:

This example prints the string "Hello world!".

 CATIA.SystemService.Print("Hello world!")

SystemService (Object)

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