Close Command

Anyone know the answer to this one?

I'm creating a toolbar button that will plot out drawings to a selected
paper size and then close the drawing without saving it. However, the
problem I'm coming up with is that every time it closes a drawing, it asks
if I want to save it. I thought that this would work;

^C^C-plot;y;;DesignJet 430 C4713A CAD.pc3;ANSI B (17.00 x 11.00
Inches);Inches;Landscape;n;Extents;Fit;Center;y;MFL Standard Plot
Style.ctb;y;n;n;n;y;_Close;n

But the n at the end does nothing. Is there a different command other than
close that will allow me to do this? I've forgotten something small.

Thanks for the help in advance,

Xolo

 

You working with SDI 1 or SDI 0 ?

 

You might want to change the _close;n; to:
_qsave;_close;
Shouldn't harm anything, since it was saved / not changed anyway.
Bob

 

Xolo,
you might look into this...maybe it can help
quote from acad2002 readme.hlp:
New functions provided to prevent a document from being marked "Updated"

Two new functions, acad-push-dbmod and acad-pop-dbmod, can be used to
suspend and resume the $DBMOD recording mechanism that AutoCAD uses to track
changes to a drawing. These functions allow applications to make changes to
a document as part of their initialization process without setting flags in
$DBMOD and triggering unwanted save drawing queries.

(acad-push-dbmod) pushes the current value of the $DBMOD system variable for
the document onto an internal stack. The function always returns T.

(acad-pop-dbmod) restores the value of $DBMOD to the most recently pushed
value on the document's internal stack. The function returns T for a
successful stack pop and nil if the stack is empty.

The acad-push-dbmod and acad-pop-dbmod functions are implemented in
acadapp.arx, which is loaded by default on AutoCAD startup, but can be
disabled, if desired.
To use the new functions, precede program actions that should not affect the
value of $DBMOD with calls to push the $DBMOD value, then pop the value
after performing the action. Here is a simple LISP example:

(acad-push-dbmod)
(setq new_line '((0 . "LINE") (100 . "AcDbEntity") (8 . "0")
(100 . "AcDbLine") (10 1.0 2.0 0.0) (11 2.0 1.0 0.0)
(210 0.0 0.0 1.0)))
(entmake new_line) ; Sets $DBMOD 1 flag
(command "_color" "2") ; Sets $DBMOD 4 flag
(command "_-vports" "_SI") ; Sets $DBMOD 8 flag
(command "_vpoint" "0,0,1") ; Sets $DBMMOD 16 flag
(acad-pop-dbmod) ; $DBMOD will again have the same value it had before
; the call to acad-push-dbmod
end quote
hth
Mark

single document interface (as opposed to multiple document interface - MDI)

 

Hi Mark,

That's interesting. Thanks for the pointer.

Joe Burke