Set reference point in objects and measure distance

1) How can I set the reference point in objects?
for example:
        a) exactly in the center of a pad or a via
        b) exactly in any corner of the board outline
2) How can I measure the distance of two points with the maximum accuracy?
  for example:
        a) measure the distance between two pads or via
        b) measure the lenght of a line

dear Semaphore, thanx for your response.
I already use the ways that you refer me, but like this I can't measure with accuracy, or setting the zero reference is not guarantee that I set it exactly in the center of via or pad.
With grid seted in smallest option is difficult to target the center of a pad, and also is difficult to target the point in the edje of a line with accuracy. With ruler I also have the same problem, I cant be sure that the ruler is pointing exactly to the center of a via or pad.
That I need is a kind of a snap option to attach the mouse-cursor exactly in the center of an object, that can help me to target exactly in the center and have an accurate measurement or accurate set the zero reference without mistake.
Any other suggestion for accurate measurements?

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Hello Community,
I want to mirror a layout.
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BUT
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I want to middle of the DOCUMENT to be the reference point. How can I do that?
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Christian

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[Code]
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I ask this as a lot of my work goes straight out for repro, and it would be usefull to be able to set the highlight to say 90-95% and the shadow to about 15-20%.
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Reference Objects and Pooling

I am trying to create a Pool class that does not require the caller to explictly return the objects. I thought I might be able to use Phantomreference or WeakReference to detect when the user no longer had reference to the object and thus reclaim it and put it back in the pool. The issues with these are this:
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all cases the referant has allready been finalized. In...
So what I tried to do was create a proxy class that
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Actions which include Set Reference Pt via Transform Panel failing consistently during playback

The title pretty much says it all. I have two different Windows XP machines, both got upgraded to CS 6 (the x.0.0 release, the Release Notes for the x.0.1 don't directly address this, but if this topic pulls up blank, I may go that route... it requires running an approval gauntlet via IT, otherwise I'd already have done it).
Repeatable problem is this:
0. Create and select an object. Even a basic rectangle will do.
1. Creat a new Action.
2. Begin recording.
3. In the Transform Panel, specify a new Reference Point that isn't the lower right (if your machines are like mine, you will get a "double hit" of the same Action step, no matter how gently you click on the new Reference Point). I say "not the lower right" for a reason in a second.
4. Feel free to make a couple other numeric transforms in the Transform Panel. I tried adjusting Width and Height.
5. Stop recording.
6. Undo back to the original state (though I suppose it isn't necessary to deomnstrate the point)
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First thing, the Set Reference Point seems to be utterly ignored, *or* sometimes it sets to the lower right and stays stuck there. I made one Action that was just a series of moving the Reference Point around a rectangle clockwise. The Action failed after the first Set and then stayed locked on the lower right for no discernible reason.
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What in the blue blazes is going on here? Needless to say, this is taking a wrecking ball to our dozen mission-critical Action Sets, which all rely upon setting transforms to fit particular spaces automatically, precisely and consistently, and which, I might add, worked fine under 5.5.
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Help?
P.S. Addendum: if anyone on CS6 (16.0.0 and/or 16.0.1) can at least run through the test case above and either confirm or deny that I am crazy to be witnessing this, that would be helpful, too.

I FIXED IT!!!
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PS Adobe, YOU'RE WELCOME.

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I have selected the top left reference point with no documents open to set that as my default preference but I didn't create this document.
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Hi,
I have questions re objects, primitives and collection accessing and references
I made a simple class
public class SampleClass {
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...and another...
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INSIDE SETTER : same object
INSIDE SETTER : equal values
SampleClassUser MAIN : equal values
INSIDE SETTER : same object
INSIDE SETTER : equal values
INSIDE CONSTRUCTOR : same object
INSIDE CONSTRUCTOR : equal values
INSIDE SETTER : same object
INSIDE SETTER : equal values
sc1 and sc2 : equal values
...i'm just curios why the last 3 lines are the way they are.
INSIDE SETTER : same object
INSIDE SETTER : equal values
sc1 and sc2 : equal values
how come while inside the setter method, the objects are the same object, and after leaving the setter method are not the same objects?
Can anyone point a good book that shows in detail how objects, primitives and collections are referenced, especially when passed to methods. Online reference is preferred since the availability of books can be a problem for me.
Thanks very much

You are confusing references with objects.
This compares two object references:
if( obj1 == obj2 ) { // ...Whereas this compares two objects:
if( obj1.equals(obj2) ) { // ...A reference is a special value which indicates where in memory two objects happen to be. If you create two strings with the same value they won't be in the same place in memory:
String s1 = new String("MATCHING");
String s2 = new String("MATCHING");
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int x = 42;
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Look at this video tutorial:
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KeganO wrote:
Yes, that's very clear. So all I want to know now is, if I had in my code something like
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Some classes you might not be able to do it at all.
There's no guaranteed way to do it provided by the language though. It all depends on whether the class is implemented to provide it.
>
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[code]
for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
if (something) {
doStuff(i);
[/code]
becomes
for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
if (something) {
doStuff(i);
}

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#$hash.Add("OSDComputerName","BLDTMP08R2")
#$hash.Add("SMSTSPreferredAdvertID","CM100169")
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#>
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We are running R2 CU2.
When I ran the command with -Verbose I recieved:
PS CM1:\> C:\Users\INAFN\Documents\codeBin\IsoGenerator.ps1
VERBOSE: Performing operation "New" on Target "TaskSequenceMedia: New".
VERBOSE: Executing WQL query: SELECT * FROM SMS_BootImagePackage pkg WHERE pkg.ActionInProgress!=3 And pkg.PackageID ='CM10008F'
VERBOSE: Query returned 1 results.
VERBOSE: Executing WQL query: Select dp.* from SMS_DistributionPoint As ref Join SMS_DistributionPointInfo As dp On ref.ServerNALPath=dp.NALPath and ref.SiteCode=dp.SiteCode Where ref.PackageID='CM10
008F' And dp.ServerName ='Servername.Domain.Com'
VERBOSE: Query returned 1 results.
VERBOSE: Executing WQL query: SELECT dp.ServerNALPath, dp.State, oci.SourceSize FROM SMS_PackageStatusDistPointsSummarizer AS dp JOIN SMS_BootImagePackage AS pkg ON pkg.PackageID=dp.PackageID JOIN SM
S_ObjectContentInfo as oci on oci.PackageID=pkg.PackageID WHERE dp.PackageID='CM10008F' AND pkg.ActionInProgress=0
VERBOSE: Query returned 30 results.
VERBOSE: Executing WQL query: SELECT scf.* FROM SMS_SCI_SysResUse AS scf JOIN SMS_SITE AS sit ON sit.SiteCode = scf.SiteCode WHERE scf.RoleName='SMS Management Point' AND site.Type != 1
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New-CMTaskSequenceMedia : Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
At C:\Users\INAFN\Documents\codeBin\IsoGenerator.ps1:25 char:1
+ New-CMTaskSequenceMedia -BootableMediaOption -MediaPath c:\temp\ISOName.iso -BootIm ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [New-CMTaskSequenceMedia], NullReferenceException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.NullReferenceException,Microsoft.ConfigurationManagement.Cmdlets.Osd.Commands.NewTaskSequenceMediaCommand
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VERBOSE: Performing operation "New" on Target "TaskSequenceMedia: New".
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VERBOSE:
VERBOSE:
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instance of SMS_ExtendedStatus
Description = "The package name must be at least 1 and less than 50 characters in length.";
ErrorCode = 1078462208;
File = "e:\\qfe\\nts\\sms\\siteserver\\sdk_provider\\smsprov\\ssptspackage.cpp";
Line = 931;
ObjectInfo = "";
Operation = "PutInstance";
ParameterInfo = "";
ProviderName = "ExtnProv";
StatusCode = 2147749889;
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+ New-CMTaskSequenceMedia -BootableMediaOption -MediaPath c:\temp\ISOName.iso -BootIm ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (Microsoft.Confi...nceMediaCommand:NewTaskSequenceMediaCommand) [New-CMTaskSequenceMedia], WqlQueryException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : UnhandledExeception,Microsoft.ConfigurationManagement.Cmdlets.Osd.Commands.NewTaskSequenceMediaCommand
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Reference to C# objects in TestStand - how to save and retreive them

I am new to LabView and TestStand.
I want to use 2 .NET objects in those applications
In Labiew, I successfully created the objects, manipulate the functions through VIs and closed the references.
While I could use the VIs for TestStand, I would rather use the DLL directly.
I am able to create both objects in a sequence, but I have problems with the following:
- I don't know how to save the reference to the object after the constructor is run.
    - is the object stored in Globlal variables? I tried 'RunState.Engine' but it does not work
- I don't know how to get the reference back in the other steps where I want to reuse the object to invoke a method on.
- Once I can do the above, I need to get it to work in the 'batch' or 'parallel' modes.
     I am using successfully the 'RunState.TestSockets.MyIndex' to select my testing resources,
     but I am still confuse as where the array of objects would be.
     Note that I already set the number of DUT <> 1 and I can create successfully my 2 objects in X instances.
Thanks,
Daniel Coupal

dcoupal,
Getting the reference to the object involves specifying that as a return value in one of your parameters when you specify the module for that action. Inside of the parameters table you can also save that return value as a local object reference and then use it later on in the sequence.
Regarding your second question, I'm not sure what the array of objects is that you're referring to but this KB might be of some assistance.
Message Edited by Jon M on 11-01-2006 12:44 PM
Test Engineer - CTA

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