Command Name to Load and Run an MDI macro?

I have an mdi macro that works fine unless I call it from the command line
using its lisp wrapper c: name. Then it hangs as soon as the active
document changes, until I manually switch back to the 'calling document'
from which point it continues to run in the wrong document.

Is it possible to provide a command name to load (if not already loaded) and
run a vba macro that changes active document, and have it continue to run as
it should? Or am I just out of luck? I guess in the meantime I will just
have to fully load it at startup and provide a menu item with an
accelerator.

 

i think you're problem could be the way your running the vba from lisp
this may or may not be the answer but try using (vl-vbarun ....) in the lisp
routine instead of (command "vbarun" .......)

hope this helps

cheers

mark

 

The C:TEST command example below should terminate
before execution of the VBA macro that it starts.

Replace "yourmacroname" with the name of the macro
you want to start.

(defun C:TEST ()
(sendmacro "YourMacroName")
(princ "\nExiting C:TEST")
(princ)
)

(defun sendmacro (macroname)
(vla-sendcommand
(vla-get-activedocument
(vlax-get-acad-object)
)
(strcat "-VBARUN " macroname " ")
)
(princ)
)

(if (not vlax-get-acad-object)
(defun vlax-get-acad-object ()
(vl-load-com)
(vlax-get-acad-object)
)
)

 

Thank you Tony, vla-sendcommand did the trick. Yet another example of where
sendcommand does what others won't. Makes me wonder again, what is so
different about vla-sendcommand than command or vl-cmdf (and in this case
vl-vbarun)? Apparently there is some timing/synchronization difference?

Many thanks,

James

 

Hi Mark, I guess I should have posted how I was loading it, but just so you
know, vla-runmacro is what I had been using (because I had already had other
problems with the command version in the past) and got the results I
described. Tony got it though.

Thank you,

James

 

Hi again Anne,

Here is another example. I replied to both Mark and Tony in this thread.
Both of my replies show at home (nttp) but not at work (also nttp).

Thank you,

James

 

Hi James -

I will pass this along but think it is probably a work site
related problem. I see your replies to both Tony and Mark in both
nntp and http. I know you have been a discussion group user for a
long time. Is it possible you have your Outlook Express at work
set to not show your own messages? Check how the defaults are
set.

 

I will pass this along but think it is probably a work site related
problem.
I was originally inclined to think the same, but it seems so random.

So do I, but only at home. As I've mentioned before, it happens both
places.

If that were the case, wouldn't I never see my own messages? It happens to
my own posts (but only occasionally), and other people's (also only
occasionally AFAIK). I have it set to show all messages in both places. I
remember others mentioning the same (I think) problem several months ago as
well, which leads me to think it is not just me. But of course I could be
wrong.

Thank you,

James

 

What vla-sendcommand does in essence, is stuffs the keyboard
buffer with characters, which AutoCAD fetches when it is ready
to begin polling for input again (which is not until it returns to a
quiescent state, when the calling LISP function terminates).

In other words, vla-sendcommand is basically doing nothing but
typing keystrokes for you.

Nothing like a modern, sophisticated API, eh?

 

A menu macro button for ActiveX... That makes sense with what I've
seen.

Thanks again,

James