Object Explorer Object Hierarchy Index

Application (Object)

IUnknown
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  +---IDispatch
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    +---CATBaseUnknown
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      +---CATBaseDispatch
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        +---AnyObject
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          +---Application

Represents the current application and its frame window.
The application is the root object for all the other objects you can use and access from scripts. It directly aggregates:

The document collection represented by the Documents object. This collection contains all the documents currently opened by the application
The window collection represented by the Windows object. This collection contains all the windows currently opened by the application, each window displaying one of the documents contained in the document collection
The SystemService object, providing information about the system environment.

The active document and the active window are two key objects for the application you can access using the ActiveDocument and ActiveWindow properties respectively. The active window is the window the end user is currently working in, and the active document is the document displayed in this active window and that the end user is being editing. This document sets its workshop, that is the available menus and toolbars that make it possible to edit it, according to its type.

When you create or use macros for in-process access, the application is always referred to as CATIA.

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