Is there a NETLOAD method in VB(A)?

Hi everyone,

Am I missing something, or there is no Application.NETLOAD (or LOADNET, or whatever) method in AutoCAD 2005 Type Library? I can't stand using LISP to load .NET assemblies

Regards,
Maksim Sestic

 

You can use demand loading if LISP rubs you that raw
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Hi everyone,

Am I missing something, or there is no Application.NETLOAD (or LOADNET, or whatever) method in AutoCAD 2005 Type Library? I can't stand using LISP to load .NET assemblies

Regards,
Maksim Sestic

 

You can also have it autoloaded by the system when AutoCAD fires up

-- Mike
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Mike Tuersley
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the trick is to realize that there is no spoon...

 

Mike,

I'm aware of that, but AutoCAD's TLB has an Application.LoadARX method and I
was wondering if there's similar mechanism for loading .NET assemblies.
We're still using VB-based EXE startup routine for firing-up AutoCAD and
loading bunch of ARXes, DVBs, VLXes and .NET DLLs in it... Since we're
all in the middle of the process of learning C#, hopingly we'll migrate all
of it to .NET before AutoCAD 2006 final release gets launched.

Regards,
Maksim Sestic

 

You shouldn't be using LISP to load .net assemblies.

You can have them loaded by creating the appropriate
registry entries (the same way that AcLayer.dll is loaded).



Hi everyone,

Am I missing something, or there is no Application.NETLOAD (or LOADNET, or whatever) method in AutoCAD 2005 Type
Library? I can't stand using LISP to load .NET assemblies

Regards,
Maksim Sestic

 

Mike,

How is this done?

 

In HKLM\Software\Autodesk\AutoCAD\R16.1\ACAD-301:409\Applications add your
own key with the following values:

\myApp
"DESCRIPTION"="myApp"
"LOADER"="C:\\wherever\\myApp.dll"
"LOADCTRLS"=dword:00000002
"MANAGED"=dword:00000001

plus a sub key:
myApp\Commands
"StartmyApp"="StartmyApp"
- where StartmyApp is a valid command within your app.

Now the app will load whenever AutoCAD is started. To auto initialize it,
you could add:

to your code:
<CommandMethod("dwfAutoSave")> _
Public Sub StartmyApp()
.....
End Sub

Then a call to StartmyApp in ACAD.LSP, ACAD.MNL, or anything else that
autoloads.

-- Mike
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Mike Tuersley
___________________________
the trick is to realize that there is no spoon...

 

That's good information to have. I've got a project I can apply that to
immediately. Thank you very much.

 

Any time Frank =)

-- Mike
___________________________
Mike Tuersley
___________________________
the trick is to realize that there is no spoon...

 

Tony,

I'm aware of that, but this means that _every_ time AutoCAD (or MAP) starts
it automatically loads my DLLs. Since my application completely changes
visual outlook of ACAD (including full menu structure) I had to rely on
startup .EXE file which creates separate profile. There's more than 10
custom menus, not to mention different interaction with users, and I can't
just add new menu to the end of existing ACAD one (like MAP does). My users
still need functionality of their original platform (ACAD, MAP...) and I
can't schred it for the sake of my own application.

In fact, there are two different approaches when talking of AutoCAD add-ons:
one is Autodesk MAP's - it leaves ACAD as is, with one more additional menu.
The opposite of that is Architectural Desktop's approach, which scraps
underlying ACAD structure replacing most of it with it's own (status and
tool bars, menus, options, user interaction...). I'm much closer to MAP's
way, still there is no localized version of ACAD for my group of users so I
need to stick somewhere in between

Regards,
Maksim Sestic

whatever) method in AutoCAD 2005 Type

 

Sorry. I don't follow. Your DLL can be nothing but a proxy
that decides what else to do in real-time, for each user,
or each drawing, or a combination of both.

 

Hey Mike, just checking on the double backslashes in the value for Loader? I
don't usually see double backslahes in the reg.

 

Ed, I use double back slashes also. Haven't tried
single forward. Paul

 

Yeah, double has always worked for me, too.

-- Mike
___________________________
Mike Tuersley
___________________________
the trick is to realize that there is no spoon...