Hi,

I wanted to know if there was a way to get the string value of a node's attribute. For example, I want to get the string value of an LOD node's Significant Size attribute. So, the said function would return "Significant Size" when I pass it the code of the attribute. Does such a function exist?

Thanks,

Steven

Oh, sorry I misunderstood your question. Yes there is a function for this ddGetName. There are many similar. useful functions in the Data Dictionary Function Category to make queries on the records and attributes of OpenFlight nodes.

Actually that's not exactly what I wanted to do. Getting the string value of the attribute's value is no problem. What I want is to get the string value of the attribute's name. I'm looking for that functionnality because I wanted to create a "Modifications Preview" pane for one of my plugins and I was trying to make it generic. To do so I need a function that would return me the name of the attribute I'm changing. So if I'm changing the sig size of a node, I wanted a function like this "char* mgGetAttName(int fltCode)" that would return "Significant Size" in the previous case. Anyway, I doubt such a function exists but had to ask :)

No there is no such function. Just get the value as its native type and use sprintf or other string formatting technique (std::ostringstream, for example) to turn the value into a string.