How to use panelSize properly from outside of a panel when name of panel is known?

[flindecke]

It want to get the current size of a panel.
WinCC OA provides the function panelSize for this purpose.

The following code (used inside of a panel) returns the current size in w and h of the panel itself:

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int w, h;
panelSize("", w, h, true);

Also the following code:

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int w, h;
panelSize(self.name, w, h, true);

When i have a shape and use its name outside of the panel for the function panelSize i will always get a warning 76, Invalid argument in function

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shape sh = getShape(...);
int w, h;
panelSize(sh.name, w, h, true);

Using ".:" does not work either.

Question: How to get the current panel size, when i have the shape instance?

[mkoller]

Use getValue(".:", "size", w, h);

[flindecke]

Thanks Martin