getShapes() doesn't work with "shapeType" / "PANEL_REF"

[tpjctrl]

Anyone has any ideas why the following produces an empty dyn_string:

dyn_string shapes = getShapes(myModuleName(), myPanelName(), "shapeType", "PANEL_REF");

?

shapeType is a primitive shape attribute and if I do the following:

dyn_string shapes = getShapes(myModuleName(), myPanelName(), "", "");

I can see PANEL_REFs returned in the list, but is there a way to pick just those when "scanning" a panel?

Basically I'm trying to fetch the names of PANEL_REFs which are of a specific type, to read their $params.

[dbindernagel]

I guess this is the case because a PANEL_REF is not a "real" shape but just the reference to a panel that contains shapes.
It would be really helpful to have a function that would return panel references.

What you can do is to get all shapes and then check for a dot "." in the name to distinguish between PANEL_REF and normal shapes (assuming you don't have a dot in your shape names).

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dyn_string getPanelReferences()
{
  dyn_string shapes, references;
  shapes = getShapes(myModuleName(), myPanelName(), "");

  for (int i = 1; i <= dynlen(shapes); i++)
  {
    // Check if shape is a reference (will have a dot in the name).
    if (!shapes[i].contains("."))
      continue;

    shape reference = getShape(shapes[i].split(".")[0]);

    // Optional: Check if PANEL_REF is desired type.
    if (strpos(reference.panelFileName, "refname.xml") < 0)
      continue;

    if (!dynContains(references, reference.name))
      dynAppend(references, reference.name);
  }

  return references;
}

[tpjctrl]

Indeed, if you look inside any XML panel file with a panel ref, you'll see that the panel refs have no shape type attribute.

Thanks for the code sample, I'll give it a go.