Capture Keystrokes

I want to make a command to make it easier to create script files.

The idea is to click a start button in a modeless form, and from then on grab each key as it's pressed until a stop button is pressed, so that I can then save it to a *.scr file to run on multiple drawings.

Now, seeing there's no KeyPress event for AutoCAD, does anyone know of a way to do this?

Using the Begin/EndCommand events gives me the commands, but doesn't give me the options that may have been set from within the command.

Thanks,
Mick.

 

Hi Mick,

Search back through the NGs with Google. There was a program to do this
posted some years ago.

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Regards,


Laurie Comerford
www.cadapps.com.au

 

Laurie,

I did find a Macro Recorder posted by Joe Sutphin, but this appears (at least to me - please correct me if I'm wrong) to only work with adding objects. While the same tact could be taken for modifying existing objects, it would mean going through every object type and creating a template for both adding and modifying each of them.

I want to make a program that will allow the user to do anything that he/she could have done through the AutoCAD command line, not limit them to the commands/objects that I have already set up, hence the desire to find a way to capture keystrokes.

 

Hi Micky,

I have never used it. However, if it creates code, then you can use that as
sample code and edit as you require.

If you have ever used the Macro recorder in any of the MS Office software,
you will know what I mean.

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Regards,


Laurie Comerford
www.cadapps.com.au

 

Since you already have a form, try this.
Add a textbox control and set its Multiline property to True.
Change the Stop button to a Save button and save the text to a txt file with
a *.scr extension.
Here's another method I use with a script manager program I wrote. I just
shell to Notepad. I have a listbox with filenames. If the user selects one
and clicks on edit, it opens the script in Notepad. If they click on the New
button, it prompts for a filename and starts Notepad with the new file. So
by putting them in the text editor, I don't have to capture keystrokes or
copy from a temp editor to the permanent one.

 

If you set a windows hook procedure you may be able to check the key pressed and write it to the file.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...suserinterface/windowing/hooks/usinghooks.asp
Regards - Nathan