【转帖】getting all the features in a feature manager folder

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getting all the features in a feature manager folder
i need to access all the features in a folder (regular folder that is, not a comment or body folder) but i can't seem to find a way to determine if a feature has the folcer as parent or not. i would have expected that once you have a handle to the ftrfolder object you could use something like getfirstsubfeature but no such luck. it appears that the ftrfolder feature is plain feature in the feature list.
the method i'm using now is to just use selectbyid to get the folder feature and then march down from there until i hit another ftrfolder object. this only works because i've put all my features in folders so there isn't any outside the folders. however if i want this to work where there may be features living outside the folder which are after the folder in the feature list then i'm hosed. any ideas?
here's my current code:
private overloads function suppressfolder(byval swfeature as sldworks.feature) as boolean
'note this will suppress every feature from the selected folder until it
'hits another folder or runs out of features
dim bret as boolean
dim infolder as boolean
dim success as boolean
m_swmodel.clearselection2(true)
success = true
if swfeature.gettypename = "ftrfolder" then
infolder = true
while (not swfeature is nothing) and infolder
bret = swfeature.setsuppression2(swconst.swfeaturesuppressionaction_e.swsuppressfeature, swconst.swinconfigurationopts_e.swallconfiguration, nothing)
if not bret then success = false
debug.print("suppressing feature: " & swfeature.name & " status = " & cstr(bret))
swfeature = swfeature.getnextfeature
if swfeature.gettypename = "ftrfolder" then
infolder = false
end if
end while
end if
m_swmodel.forcerebuild3(false)
return success
end function
answer folders don't have subfeatures but there is a hidden feature in with the name foldername__endtag__ so you just keep traversing the feature manager until you hit this hidden feature. silly me, i've seen this before but forgot about it.
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