Document Activated

Has anybody implemented a
Document Activated event for a VB DLL app ??

I understand Tony Tanzillo had such an utility
but it's not available anymore.
does anybody know of any other utility that has such an event ??
Or any other way of doing it ??

 

I wrote an article one time about how to do this. Send me a direct email [as
a reminder] and I'll see if I can locate it.

Joe

 

Hi...

Are you talk about ActiveDocument_Activate event???

Un saludo de SpeedCAD...
CHILE
FORO: http://www.hispacad.com/foro

 

No, I'm talking about knowing when the user
switches to another document in VB

 

Hi...

Yes, you can... Just add un Timer control to VB proyect.

 

That's a very poor and error-prone solution.

Exporting AcApDocManagerReactor::documentActivated via COM is very
reliable and not all that complicated.

Unfortunately, it's been so long since I've worked with ObjectARX I
don't remember how to do it. Not to mention there seems to be come kind
of incompatability between ObjectARX and VS.NET 2003.

 

But it work

 

as there are more difficulties at watching when the user opens a
document, creates a new one (where object-modified-events are missing)
i'm used to do a workaround with vba:

within vba i initialize my app with getinterfaceobject

within vba i watch the events (and there the event DocumentActivated and
all other document-specific events work fine)

if an event occurs in vba i call a function within my vb-dll that has to
the work



hope this helps - alfred -

 

Thanks for the help Alfred.

 

Thanks for the tip.

What are the compatibility issues between C# and ObjectARX ??

 

It's not C# that's the problem, it's C++.

Apparently, VC++ 2003 now uses MFC 7.1 while AutoCAD 2005 uses MFC 7.0
which is the version used by VC++ 2002.

Since only the ObjectARX API exports the types of functionality I
mentioned earlier, you can't use stock VS.NET 2003 to create an ARX file.