How to access enclosing graph

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   I have an oid of an element which I want to highlight, but therefore I need the oid of the enclosing graph, because the animate method requires that. How can I get information about the overlaying graph by using the API?

Regards,

Martin

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martind Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Contributor Joined: 18.Apr.2008 Location: Bremen, Germany Points: 16	Post Options Post Reply Quote martind Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: How to access enclosing graph Posted: 14.May.2008 at 15:00
	I have an oid of an element which I want to highlight, but therefore I need the oid of the enclosing graph, because the animate method requires that. How can I get information about the overlaying graph by using the API? Regards, Martin

stevek Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List MetaCase Joined: 11.Mar.2008 Points: 643	Post Options Post Reply Quote stevek Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 14.May.2008 at 15:12
	An object can be used in many graphs, so you can't just get a single graph as an answer. However, you've got the object oid, and you presumably were able to output that by navigating to that object through a certain graph, so you can simply improve that output by adding the graph oid information along with the object oid. Of course the API can deal with all the power of MetaEdit+ as well: objects having multiple representations, graphs having multiple representations, the same object having multiple representations in the same graph representation. You can find all an object's representations with repSet, find the representation graph of a given object representation with reprGraph, and find the graph of a given graph representation with inst.