Airtight Hangar Door and Block Groups

Hi all,

I'm very new to programming so I apologise if this is very simple or has already been discussed. I'm currently trying to write a script for a ship to ship airlock that won't vent my entire compartment into space. I've got the airlock built and it works I'd just like to have a program running in the background that makes sure it's used correctly. I've run into two problems.

1) I can't seem to find out how to use the Airtight Hangar Door in the programming block ie there doesn't seem to be something like "IMyAirtightHangarDoor."
2) Is there a way to access a group of blocks? Eg I have 20 lights in a group labeled "Lights." Can I use the programming block to send a command to this group, rather than to each individual light.

Thanks for any help.

 

There indeed doesnt seem to be an interface for the airtight doors yet. But iam fairly sure that all their functions are accessible through the IMyFunctionalBlock interface.
Thus you should be able to get and apply actions aswell as read and change properties.

Here is a not so old example of how to go through an IMyBlockGroup.
https://forum.keenswh.com/threads/noob-question-about-groups-and-doors.7357170/#post-1286738493

 

Don't they implement IMyDoor? Pretty sure I had my airlock script working with them by casting to IMyDoor.

 

See I tried doing it as an "IMyDoor." Doors and Airtight Hangars have exactly the same functions just a different graphic so I thought it might be something that they bundled together (kinda like cargo containers). It didn't work for me but maybe I'd done something wrong. I'll have another look at my script tomorrow.

Thanks for the thread on groups, plaYer2k. The commenting really helps with learning. I'm finding that I have absolutely no clue as to what a given line of code does until I try to use it and see the result (unfortunately the result seems to be "error" a lot but I'll keep trying )

 

When you got errors, always make sure to copy-paste your code into a [code]...[/code] tag and give the error message within the PB. There are more than enough people willed to help here so dont hesitate to ask.

 

Will do. I'm just not at home at the moment Thanks for the offer.

 

Airtight Hangar Door actions:

• OnOff - Toggle block On/Off
• OnOff_On - Toggle block On
• OnOff_Off - Toggle block Off
• Open - Open/Closed
• Open_On - Open
• Open_Off - Closed

.GetProperties returns zero ITerminalProperty items
Casting an airtight hangar door as IMyDoor exposes Open property that returns the proper value

Code:

void Main() {
   IMyDoor someDoor = GridTerminalSystem.GetBlockWithName("Airtight Hangar Door") as IMyDoor;
   bool isOpen = someDoor.Open;

   if (isOpen) {
      someDoor.ApplyAction("Open_Off");
   }
}