Get AcadApp object from handle

Hi, maybe someone can suggest a better way. I am trying to start AutoCAD with its vanilla profile. The way I achieve this is to start it with the Shell method and use the /p switch to start it. Works great, but how do I get the app object? I can use GetObject but I can possibly have two session of acad running and with different profiles. I can get the handle of the newly opened session, but I need the actual application object. Can anyone give me a clue how to do this differently or how to "grab" that object? Thank for any help.

JRW

 

There is now way to go from a handle to an ActiveX object. Use GetObject
or CreateObject.

If you start your app from AutoCAD (an option too often overlooked), you
can use VisualLISP to pass the current instance of AutoCAD to your
application ensuring the right connection every time.

 

Frank, thanks for the reply. Very insightful. I appreciate the quick answer. Now that I know what I must work with.

 

If you know or can get the filename of the current file in the instance of AutoCAD that you want to grab then you can use GetObject like so...

Set obj = GetObject("d:\TheFileName.dwg").Application

Obviously the file path and name need to be the file you are looking for. If you don't know the file name there are various windows API functions you can use to enumerate all running windows, get window captions, etc... which you can probably make use of depending on your situation.

Regards,
Jacob Dinardi

 

Thanks for you reply also Jacob. What I ended up doing was sort of a cheat. I edited the registry default profile, started AutoCAD with CreateObject and then reset the registry to its previous setting. It works well. Thanks again.

JRW