Hi,
in our old (winforms) application we used the ultracalcmanager. We were able to specify strings like "AV Vmax [m/s]_" as alias. These string would be converted to something like "AV Vmax \[m\/s\]_" and we were able to use them in the formulas like so: "[//AV Vmax \[m\/s\]_]".
We migrated to wpf and were trying to reuse the formulas. But for some reason it seams that you cannot use "[" or "]" as valid values within the referenceId (Object ControlCalculationSettings). If I remove those characters form my formula and the referenceIds the formula works but if I leave them in the value will not be calculated.
Am I correct with this observation? If so how can I get my old formulas to work?
RegardsJohannes
Hi again,
I did some further digging and it seams that if you try to escape a character like so: "\<char>" the referenceId is not recognized. So the problem is not specific to "[" ord "]" but to all the characters that need to be escaped. http://help.infragistics.com/Help/NetAdvantage/WPF/2012.1/CLR4.0/html/InfragisticsWPF4.Calculations.XamCalculationManager.v12.1~Infragistics.Calculations.NamedReference~ReferenceId.html list a couple characters. I havn't tried them all but I can say that it does not work for "=", "(", ")", "[" and "]". So I assume that it will not work for the remaining characters either.
Hi Johannes,
I've created a sample to test this and I can verify that I'm seeing the same behavior. I can't get the formula to resolve when using an escape sequence combined with one of the special characters listed in the documentation. As such I have asked our engineering staff to examine this further. To ensure that it will receive attention, I have logged this behavior in our internal tracking system with a Development ID of 132412. The next step will be for a developer to review my investigation and confirm my findings or to offer a fix, or other resolution.
I've created a private case for you so that I can link it to this development issue. The case number is CAS-110139-L3Q3H6.
This issue has been resolved and should be available in a future service release. With the fix you will be able to escape in the same manner as winforms calc manager.
Hope this helps,
Sandip
This issue has been resolved in the latest service release that was just recently released. Head over to https://www.infragistics.com/my-account/keys-and-downloads/ to download it.