active layout?

hi

example, when in model space, tilemode 0
will shift to the last active layout, how to know
which one is/was the last active one, and is it
possible to change it to a different one,
without having to ...
(getvar "CTAB" "layoutX")(getvar "CTAB" "Model")

TIA

 

I believe you can get the name from the
paperspace block via activex.
(vla-get-name(vla-get-layout(vla-get-paperspace doc)))

 

but how to 'set' to a layout, i do not think the following works

(vla-put-name(vla-get-layout(vla-get-paperspace doc)) layoutname)

thanks

 

(setvar "ctab" "layoutX")
.... not (getvar ...)
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u r right, sorry about that...
what i am looking for is (setvar "CTAB" layoutname)
but without the graphics switching to that layout,
just make it the active in case i switch to paperspace

thanks

 

Mark,
Why would you want to do that? I prefer to leave decisions
about which layout to make active up to the drafter.

If you really want to control that, you might be able to rename the
*paper_space block to *paper_space# and then rename the selected
block of the layout to *paper_space.

I don't recommend this. I'm not sure that it will work.

If you want to go directly to a particular layout, then use (setvar "ctab" ...)
or (vla-put-activelayout....)