Description
Finds user data from a specific element for the specific layer using the provided key.
Syntax
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Public Function PrgItemUserDataFind( _ ByVal layerHandle As Long, _ ByVal seqNum As Long, _ ByVal key As String _ ) As String |
Parameters
- layerHandle
- The handle of a layer returned by the CreateLayer method.
- seqNum
- The handle of an element returned by the ElementAppend method.
- key
- The key as part of the key value pair.
Return Type
The matching value as part of the key value pair.
Remarks
Element User Data is two text fields called key and value (a map). These are allocated by each element and reserved for use by the application to store a private key value pair to associate to an element.
User data can be programmatically modified or added via the NX_XML file format
User data may be associated with an element, group, layer, or page