Enabling Orthogonal Mode
Windows only

by Dale Fugier (Last updated:  Wednesday, December 5, 2018)

Problem

You are trying to draw a line and you need ortho enabled.

Solution

The state of Rhino’s orthogonal drawing mode is stored in Rhino’s application settings, or it’s CRhinoAppSettings object. To check the current state of ortho, call CRhinoAppSettings::Ortho. To enable or disable ortho, call CRhinoAppSettings::EnableOrtho and pass in the boolean value that is appropriate. For more information on this and Rhino’s application settings class, see rhinoSdkAppSettings.h.

Sample

The following sample code illustrates how to use this feature:

CRhinoCommand::result CCommandTest::RunCommand(const CRhinoCommandContext& context)
{
  CRhinoGetPoint gp;
  gp.SetCommandPrompt(L"Starting point");
  gp.GetPoint();
  if (gp.CommandResult() != success)
    return gp.CommandResult();

  ON_3dPoint start_point = gp.Point();

  CRhinoAppSettings& settings = RhinoApp().AppSettings();
  bool bOldValue = settings.Ortho();
  if (bOldValue == false)
    settings.EnableOrtho(true);

  gp.SetCommandPrompt(L"Ending point");
  gp.SetBasePoint(start_point);
  gp.DrawLineFromPoint(start_point, true);
  gp.GetPoint();

  if (bOldValue != settings.Ortho())
    settings.EnableOrtho(bOldValue);

  if (gp.CommandResult() != success)
    return gp.CommandResult();

  ON_3dPoint end_point = gp.Point();

  ON_Line line(start_point, end_point);
  context.m_doc.AddCurveObject(line);
  context.m_doc.Redraw();

  return success;
}