API Development KitVersion: 10

New API features in ArchiCAD 10

This outline summarizes the major new features and changes in the API available with ArchiCAD 10.

Layouting in ArchiCAD
- Layout Window and Database API_DatabaseInfo, API_LayoutInfo, APIEnv_GetLayoutSetsID
- Drawing Element Type API_DrawingType, APIDb_StartDrawingDataID
- Import external file as drawing (Import2DDrawingSupported) ACAPI_Register_FileType
- Drawing Links API_DrawingLinkInfo, APIDb_GetDrawingLinkID
- Named Pen Sets, Description for Pens API_PenTableType, API_PenType
- Drawing Title API_DrawingTitle
- User Definable Autotext APIAny_GetAutoTextsID, APIAny_SetAnAutoTextID

Project Navigator enhancements
- Extended access to the Navigator data API_NavigatorSet, API_NavigatorItem
- Notification of Project Navigator changes ACAPI_Notify_CatchViewEvent, Notification Manager
- Switch to a given Navigator view APIDo_GoToViewID

Modeling Freedom
- Slanted Walls API_WallType
- Inclined Columns and Beams API_ColumnType, API_BeamType
- Enhanced positioning of openings in polygonal walls API_WindowType
- Complex Cross Section Profiles API_ProfileAttrType, API_AttributeDefExt
- Floor Plan View definition API_ElemDisplayOptionsID, API_ElemViewDepthLimitationsID, API_FloorPlanCutDefinition
- Scaled and distorted Vectorial Fills, Gradient fill API_HatchOrientation, API_HatchType, API_PrimHatchBorder, API_FilltypeType
- Story Handle in Section/Elevation API_CutPlaneType, ACAPI_Element_CreateExt, APIDb_DrawStoryControlID

Miscellaneous new features
- Transparency can be set for picture elements API_PictureType
- Change more elements at the same time ACAPI_Element_ChangeMore
- Command call in another ArchiCAD ACAPI_Command_ExternalCall, Communication Manager
- Ghost story info can be manipulated APIEnv_GetGhostStorySettingsID, APIEnv_ChangeGhostStorySettingsID
- Preferences reorganized APIEnv_GetPreferencesID, API_DimensionAttrType
- Display and Display&Output Options separated and renamed API_ViewOptions, API_ModelViewOptions, API_ModelViewOptionsType
- 3D model access through 3D Manager functions is obsolete ModelAccess
- Processing of attached object during primitive decomposition can be turned on/off with APIEnv_ChangeMarkerDrawingEnabledID and queried with APIEnv_IsMarkerDrawingEnabledID.
- New object-oriented C++ framework on top of the API functions targeted for output Add-Ons. API Output Framework

Compatibility, Compilation and Linking Issues
- Compatible IO interface is not used any more API compatibility
- InputOutput module now stores Unicode names internally
- Resconv accepts UTF-8 format GRC files Graphisoft Resource Compiler
- Runtime model change on Macintosh Mach-O
- The Geometry module is now shipped as a DLL, not as a static library.
  Please remove the GEOMETRY_NOT_DLL preprocessor definition from your project settings
- Mactel platform is supported Migration
- Compiling and Linking on Mactel API compatibility

Deprecated and removed fields/functions
- API_PrimHotspotID contol code is not returned anymore by ShapePrimsProc callback.
- API_PrimElement union doesn't have a hotspot member anymore. (Query library part hotspots with the ACAPI_LibPart_GetHotspots function.)
- The ShapePrimsProc callback doesn't return a "bulges" handle as par2 parameter anymore.