TBC Macros and Extensions

Hi all,
I've got three questions:

1 - What is the Visible Flag of a Layer referring to?
I've got a "search and replace in layernames"  macro with an option to create a copy of the layers instead of renaming.
I create a new Layer with the new name and then go through the attributes and set them to match the source layer's. Variable o is the original layer.

outputlayer = Layer.FindOrCreateLayer(self.currentProject, o.Name.replace(self.searchtext.Text, self.replacetext.Text))
outputlayer.LayerGroupSerial = o.LayerGroupSerial
outputlayer.DefaultColor = o.DefaultColor
outputlayer.FilterCategory = o.FilterCategory
outputlayer.LineStyle = o.LineStyle
outputlayer.LineWeight = o.LineWeight
outputlayer.Print = o.Print
outputlayer.Priority = o.Priority
#outputlayer.Visible = o.Visible # for some reason that would set the layer enabled/ticked in all View Filters
outputlayer.Protected = o.Protected​


failGuard.Commit()
UIEvents.RaiseAfterDataProcessing(self, UIEventArgs())
self.currentProject.TransactionManager.AddEndMark(CommandGranularity.Command)

That all works, BUT I figured out now, that copying the Visible flag will enable/tick the new layer in all Viewfilters, even in protected ones. Why would that be?

2 - if i run the above code and have the Layer manager open AND filtered then TBC throws an exception on executing

self.currentProject.TransactionManager.AddEndMark(CommandGranularity.Command)​

the exeception does not occur when the Layermanager is unfiltered

the layers do get created properly in both cases


3 - how can I access the advanced view filter settings, lets say protect/unprotect all viewfilters, via macro


Cheers
Ronny

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Ronny Schneider
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