Can you put comments into a script file?

Can you put comments into a script file? I'd like to keep a script template
for updating title blocks with comments labeling each entry to simplify
creting a new version of the script for a new change to a different area of
the title block.



DougVL

 

Yes.
Use ";" like you would in LISP.

 

I'd be glad to share the script if anyone wants it, but I don't really want
to change to LISP. Then I'm encroaching on the I.T. department's territory
and that brings trouble.

I have had another version, at another office, using Visual Basic with a
dialog box to enter the changes I need and then generate the script
automatically. But we don't have VB available here.

 

Thanks!

I had wondered about that. If I'd been thinking quicker, I would have just
checked that first, instead of asking. But I'd just made another new
posting or 2 and got carried away.

Doug

 

Then I'm encroaching on the I.T. department's territory

No offense, but whoever made it up, that's a really silly rule that
demonstrates an ignorance of AutoCAD. Prohibiting customizations which will
increase your company's productivity and profitability, because of a "turf"
jealousy, is just plain dumb.

AutoLISP is the "macro" language supplied supplied with Acad, it's specific
to Acad, and doesn't run outside Acad. I seriously doubt that your IT people
are programming in lisp, and if they were, it wouldn't be a dialect that's
useful in customizing Acad. No matter how smart they are, if they aren't
Acad users, I'd be very skeptical of their ability to write programs of
benefit to you without spending an inordinate amount of time learning
AutoCAD first.

You're "programming" when you write a script and use it as a way to automate
Acad. How is it any different to write a lisp in your text editor rather
than a script? Your script will translate almost directly into a series of
(command) function calls in lisp -- the same effect, just a change in
syntax. The only difference is that this silly limitation prevents you from
using logical techniques to vastly expand the power of the programming that
you are already doing.

I hope you find a different position some day, here your initiatve will be
appreciated rather than discouraged.

 

Very well put. Tom.

 

Jim, I don't know the situation of course, but it just seemed absurd. A person who's taking the initiative to automate tasks ought to be encouraged, obviously within the reasonable bounds of not messing up company standards and so forth.

In our outfit, IT does hardware and networking and the like, and aside from doing the raw install of vanilla Acad on new computers, they want nothing to do with it or how we use it. That's the exclusive domain of the architectural dept.

 

Bravo Tom...!

It remains me some similar situation.. many years ago, I end up moving to a new office...

 

Luis, I think we have all been there.

 

Wait. I just remembered. I have already used ";" in scripts, to work as
the ENTER key.

Doug

 

Wait. I just remembered. I have already used ";" in scripts, to work as
the ENTER key.

No, you're thinking of menu macros. I did a quick test yesterday, and
semicolons worked for commenting a script. It's good to know -- I had not
needed that before.