Inserting a block

Is there something I can implement that would allow a block that's being inserted to switch the current layer of the drawing it's being inserted on?

 

If you know some vba you could use the autocad document reactor named
BeginCommand to trap the insert command and change the current layer or
possibley grab the block handle to manipulate it.
Jim Taylor

inserted to switch the current layer of the drawing it's being inserted on?

 

If you are inserting the block using VBA then it would be easy.

inserted to switch the current layer of the drawing it's being inserted on?

 

If it were that easy I wouldn't be here. As mentioned above the block is being inserted from several different application. I don't want to have to change the code in every app.

 

Yup I know VBA, VB, .NET and C. I think the event handler approach will be the avenue I go down if nothing better comes along. I was just hoping there was something I was missing.

 

Just remember that with VBA there is only one task per application. If you
have an event handler running in the background you could not run another
VBA program. (There might be a way but it would be messy)

Michael

 

You can have event handlers in VBA and run other VBA programs.
Regards - Nathan

 

In VB you can and it works well. In VBA, good luck. I have never seen
anyone get this to work properly with unreated threads.

Michael

 

If your layer rules are such that the block is supposed to exist on only one layer and if the reasons for doing so are for display control purposes only, then define the block so that its elements are on that special layer instead of layer 0. You will have side-stepped the entire issue. Otherwise, you might be better off creating a cleanup routine triggered by beforesave and beforeprint. You would then gain the flexibility to throw in all the other cleanup items that might also be needed.

 

I know you can not have a VBA application constantly running and run others. What you seem to be saying though is that you can not have event handlers and run other VBA programs. If this is what you are saying you are incorrect.
Regards - Nathan