Automatically create text mask while creating mtext

Is there a routine, command or whatever that allows you to create a wipeout or text mask while you are typing the text?!? We use text masks and wipeouts constantly, and it is a pain to then go round the drawing adding the masks to the text we have added.

Thanks in advance
Tracey

 

Answered on the other forum, somebody's gonna tell you not to cross-post.

 

Hey, Old, which other forum? I'd like to know, too.

rs

cross-post.

 

A message on the other forum advised me to post here.. So here I am. The reply you gave was the way I had tried, but I was hoping someone may know if there was a way to create a mask whilst typing in text.

Any help would be gratefully received.

 

I don't believe that "text mask" (or wipeout) was created to work in a
"dynamic" fashion.... I wish it were though.

 

Perhaps not (especially TEXTMASK). However the WIPEOUT command can be called
from LISP, and might be used in conjunction with the (textbox) function to
create a wipeout object and place it behind the text immediately after it's
created. It would take a bit more code than I have time for at the moment,
for something I'd very seldom use, however, so I'll let it go at that.
___

 

Did you get an answer on the "other" forum?

Which other forum?

I've tried to cope with this for quite a while. There was a Function
version of Textmask around, which you could call, but apparently it has
not been updated for 2004 as it no longer works. The closest I've been
able to get is:
.. . .
(blah blah)
(command "c:textmask")
(more blah)
.. . .

Miraculously the call to textmask does not terminate the active lisp
routine. However, there is no way that I could find to feed it the Last
object, so you have to click the item. Not completely satisfactory, I
know, but better.

rs

wipeout or text mask while you are typing the text?!? We use text masks
and wipeouts constantly, and it is a pain to then go round the drawing
adding the masks to the text we have added.

 

you haven't tried to use the base lisp commands in "textmask"? I've
been able to use the un-mask portion of that command to great success in
my own lisps.

 

Well, I tell ya, although I pride myself on my ability to put together
lisp macros -- and some are pretty cute -- I just don't have the time to
disect textmask. Fillmore Grefe hacked it to do dimensions, for which I
was heartily grateful, and I was hoping that someone equally brilliant
could make a function from it.

Maybe you know: WHAT IS THE "OTHER" FORUM? They won't tell me. It's a
secret.

rs

 

Hi

Thanks for everyones thoughts... The other post was on the AutoCAD 2000 general site.
I am a complete customising novice and would love to know how to program to get cad to do what I want. Any advice?
My big problem is the wipeout/text mask but it seems that it is not a problem to too many people. It would save me hours a week. So If anyone has such a program, or knows how it can be done I would be very grateful.
Thanks.... Tracey

 

I need one that will put the mask on a different layer (we use solids, not wipeouts...)
I'll have to write in the ability to do mtext at the same time. It simply takes the ability to manipulate dxf data,
nothing really complex. Send me an email so I remember to send you the routine and post it here.

babtie <>
|>Hi
|>
|>Thanks for everyones thoughts... The other post was on the AutoCAD 2000 general site.
|>I am a complete customising novice and would love to know how to program to get cad to do what I want. Any advice?
|>My big problem is the wipeout/text mask but it seems that it is not a problem to too many people. It would save me hours a week. So If anyone has such a program, or knows how it can be done I would be very grateful.
|>Thanks.... Tracey

James Maeding
Civil Engineer/Programmer