AutoCAD Command Window Size

Hello All!

I have been fighting for the last couple of days with the following issue:

I am trying to resize the current drawing window and a VB form so that it
fills the client area of the AutoCAD screen. I have been able to get the
width of the windows to work, but the height is causing me a problem, as the
Command Window and the status bar are included in the height I get back from
the API.

This would be fine, but I cannot for the life of me find where the size of
the Command Window is stored. I know that in R15, it is in the Fixed Profile
key in the Registry, but that changed in R16, and I need to support both. I
have found API calls that return child windows of the AutoCAD window, but
the Command Window doesn't show up unless it is not docked, in which case,
my life is good anyway, so I don't need it.

If anyone has any ideas, I would really appreciate it!

Mike Andrews

 

This may or may not help you, but the number of visible lines in the command window is stored in the environment variable 'CmdVisLines'.

(getenv "CmdVisLines")

You might find more help in the Visual Basic Customization discussion group.

Dave

 

Great suggestion. It was a different enough viewpoint, and helped me solve
my problem in a way I hadn't considered.

Thanks Dave!

Mike

command window is stored in the environment variable 'CmdVisLines'.

 

I'm glad I could help.


Dave