Help me squelch the two most irritating mutters:

1. Viewport is view-locked. Switching to Paper space.

2. Switching back to Model space.

I have no idea why They built these into the system but, boy, are they
irritating. Particularly when I need to search back for some previous command.
Can they be trapped as with an error handler? Guess not because they aren't
errors. Is there some programming trick that will catch them on the way to the
command line and turn them into ""? Maybe a reactor?

rs

 

Agreed. I like to lock viewports, but I can't figure out how to turn off the
annoying (and inerruptive) echo when I zoom/pan within a locked viewport. I
tried like a gazillion settings for QAFLAGS, but nothing would deter the echo.

 

Oh, oh. John, if *you* can't figure it out that makes it sound pretty
intransigent. How about this: When a mouse operation is ongoing, turn on nomutt.
Then when the keyboard is active, turn it off again. Plus a switch to revert to
normal nomutt operation.

If I can find some time I'll try to pursue that -- but I have almost no
experience with reactors.

rs

 

Well, since this has always been bothersome to me, but not enough so to do
anything about it, after seeing these 3 posts I thought I'd try something
based on VBA Events. Since I already had an ACADDVB file for CAPS on/off
events it was pretty simple to trap the zoom & pan events. However, I can't
figure out the wheel... issuaing an Undo after a wheel zoom shows: "Command:
U INTELLIZOOM", but placing intellizoom into the event handler doesn't do
anything.

So anyway, here's my partial solution.......use or discard at your own
discretion (if you'd like the keyboard classthat goes with the Caps lock
stuff, just ask. I got it from the VBA newsgroup sometime back). Place the
following into the ThisDrawing portion of your Acad.dvb....

Code:

'''Subs for CapsOn by Mark Propst, posted to the autodesk VBA newsgroup
'''June 23, 2003

Option Explicit
Dim kb As clsKeyboard
Dim command_count As Long

Private Sub AcadDocument_BeginCommand(ByVal CommandName As String)
Select Case UCase(CommandName)
Case UCase("mtext"), UCase("text"), UCase("mtedit"), UCase("dtext"), _
UCase("ddedit"), UCase("ddatte"), UCase("QLEADER"), UCase("Layer")
Set kb = New clsKeyboard
kb.CapsOn = True
ThisDrawing.SetVariable "nomutt", 0
Case UCase("zoom"), UCase("pan"), UCase("intellizoom")'the intellizoom
doesn't appear to be caught.
ThisDrawing.SetVariable "nomutt", 1
Case Else
ThisDrawing.SetVariable "nomutt", 0
If Not kb Is Nothing Then
kb.CapsOn = False
Set kb = Nothing
End If
End Select

End Sub

Private Sub AcadDocument_EndCommand(ByVal CommandName As String)
Select Case CommandName
Case UCase("mtext"), UCase("text"), UCase("mtedit"), UCase("dtext"), _
UCase("ddedit"), UCase("ddatte"), UCase("QLEADER"), UCase("Layer")

kb.CapsOn = False
If Not kb Is Nothing Then
Set kb = Nothing
End If
Case UCase("zoom"), UCase("pan"), UCase("intellizoom")
ThisDrawing.SetVariable "nomutt", 0

End Select
'***Below code is to AUTO save the drawing every 25 commands,
'***I'm not using since I don't want saves in a testing environment
'  If ThisDrawing.GetVariable("DWGTITLED") = 1 Then
'  Select Case CommandName
'    Case UCase("undo"), UCase("u")
'        command_count = command_count
'    Case Else
'        command_count = command_count + 1
'        If command_count = 24 Then
'            ThisDrawing.Save
'            command_count = 0
'        End If
'    End Select
'  End If
End Sub

 

Interesting stuff, Jeff. Detecting mouse wheel activity might involve finding
out just what the wheel is sending and what the driver is translating it to.
Actually, I was thinking along simpler lines: any mouse activity. There aren't
too many command line displays that I can think of that need to be read while
the mouse is active. Well, none.

rs

 

I think the case is that Autodesk ought to provide a variable (could be an
embellishment of Expert) to permit the suppression of the prompt, or do away
with it altogether, as it really serves no useful purpose.

No offense, Jeff, but I'd bet that the event/reactor use of NOMUTT is likely to
cause more problems than it solves. :/