Blackboard in VBA

I am pretty sure you can access the blackboard from R2004 VBA, but I can't
seem to find any reference in the developer help.

Gordon

 

The blackboard is in the lisp environment. Or are you talking about the
windows clipboard?

 

I could have sworn I read somewhere about using the blackboard to
communicate between Lisp and VBA. Hmm. Maybe I am just loosing my noodle.
I really wish you could just pass parameter to VBA from lisp, but no such
luck. I wonder if it is really technically difficult, or just something that
marketing doesn't realize is important.

Gordon

 

You can (sort of) if you design the procedure to use the Util object's
Get... methods. If you search the ng for this approach you will find some
examples.


--
R. Robert Bell, MCSE
www.AcadX.com


|
| | > The blackboard is in the lisp environment. Or are you talking about the
| > windows clipboard?
|
| I could have sworn I read somewhere about using the blackboard to
| communicate between Lisp and VBA. Hmm. Maybe I am just loosing my noodle.
| I really wish you could just pass parameter to VBA from lisp, but no such
| luck. I wonder if it is really technically difficult, or just something
that
| marketing doesn't realize is important.
|
| Gordon
|
|

 

How is it you always manage to know the slick tricks? My application is a
scale setting tool, and on second look I realize that I am probably better
off just doing the whole thing in VBA with a drop down list. WHat I had
before was a menu interface, which required some lisp to VBA communication
since a menu still can't talk to VBA (but hey, we have XP certified pathing,
so who am I to complain
Then I realized, hey, if I build a scale tool in VBA, I could then tie it in
to Viewport scale, so we would have a quick way to get to office standard
scales, without all the civil scales comming first in the list. Two dead
chickens, one rock, cool.

That said, I will dig up the stuff you mentioned, just so I can see what it
is doing. If I look, I will never need it, if I don't I will need it next
month

Best,
Gordon

 

Glad I could help!

--
R. Robert Bell, MCSE
www.AcadX.com


|
| | > You can (sort of) if you design the procedure to use the Util object's
| > Get... methods. If you search the ng for this approach you will find
some
| > examples.
|
| How is it you always manage to know the slick tricks? My application is a
| scale setting tool, and on second look I realize that I am probably better
| off just doing the whole thing in VBA with a drop down list. WHat I had
| before was a menu interface, which required some lisp to VBA communication
| since a menu still can't talk to VBA (but hey, we have XP certified
pathing,
| so who am I to complain
| Then I realized, hey, if I build a scale tool in VBA, I could then tie it
in
| to Viewport scale, so we would have a quick way to get to office standard
| scales, without all the civil scales comming first in the list. Two dead
| chickens, one rock, cool.
|
| That said, I will dig up the stuff you mentioned, just so I can see what
it
| is doing. If I look, I will never need it, if I don't I will need it next
| month
|
| Best,
| Gordon
|
|

 

I've already done that. You can download it from the Exchange at AUGI.com.