autolisp or visual lisp?

I picked-up an autolisp programmer beginner book for curiosity sake. I currently use MDT2004. Can I apply the autolisp programs to MDT or do I need to go with visual lisp?

 

Visual lisp is the code editor that provides more APi's and resources as
well as options.

Best of all it comes with 2000+ by typing 'VLIDE'.

You'll find complete documentation, or if you perfer use this newsgroup and
ask questions.
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currently use MDT2004. Can I apply the autolisp programs to MDT or do I need
to go with visual lisp?

 

bobbyjoe

If you are looking forward, use VisualLISP but without 'VanillaLISP'
you can't do it.

Cheers

 

Thank you for the assistance. I used notepad as the text editor to try a simple program. I saved the program in the Autodesk support file. (The encoding it asked for were 4 different types. ANSI, unicode, unicode big endian, and UTF-8.) I saved the file as a unicode. I could not get it to load in MDT. Any suggestions?

 

Rudy,
Thank you for the help. The VLIDE is the text editor I can use to write out autolisp and visual lisp programs?

 

bobbyjoe

Use 'VLIDE' as Rudy has recommended...

Cheers

 

Rudy,
I have been trying out the visual lisp editor which appears to coming along. I have been checking out routines by creating new files. When I went into the visual lisp console, copied a routine that was already written and tested, and tried to save it, I could not. I do not understand what the visual lisp console v. new files? Thanks for the help

 

If you want to try out some 'old' AutoLisp routines, save them with a .lsp extension (e.g. mycode.lsp). At the command: prompt, to load them for testing / operations. Do:
Command: (load "mycode.lsp")<enter>
IF the file 'mycode.lsp' is in a 'support' path, it should load and run just fine. IF it is in another path, for example C:\lisp\mycode.lsp...then.. Do:
Command: (load "C:/lisp/mycode.lsp")
Note use of "/", not "\".


Bob