Get user input with macro

[RSB]

Is there a way to request user input in a macro? Like if the macro is creating something it can ask the user what package it should be placed in or what to name it?

[buddy.robbins@linquest.com]

Depending on what input you want, there's different solutions.
For, say, selecting a package where a new element will be created, you'd use the ElementSelectionDlgFactory.create.

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var dlg = ElementSelectionDlgFactory.create(MDDialogParentProvider.getProvider().getDialogOwner());
var selectable = new ArrayList();
selectable.add(Package); //Only allowing selection of packages
var  types = new SelectElementTypes(null, selectable);
ElementSelectionDlgFactory.initSingle(dlg, types, new SelectElementInfo(false, false), null);
if( null != dlg){
    dlg.setVisible(true);
    if (dlg.isOkClicked()){
        result = dlg.getSelectedElement();               
    }         
}


[RSB]

Perfect! Thank you, that solves one of my problems and I have some leads to try for other things now.

I haven't gotten the filter to only allow selection of Packages to work correctly, but I haven't spent much time trying to debug that. I probably am simply missing an include and will get that sorted out once I get a chance to dive into it again.