Layouts

Greetings. I need to create new layouts from V.L. When I create one using
Template, I can not access the tab to change the name to something relevant.
The name defaults to "layout-x-OriginalLayoutName". I've even tried using
(entlast), but that just gives me the last current layout tab name. I can
not set the new layout tab current since I won't know what the "x" value is
on someone else's system since they might already have layout tabs. When I
create a "New" layout, I can name it ok, but can't use a Template to create
the layout as I wish. Any suggestions on achieving my goal either way? Is
there a layout list access function like (tblsearch)? Are layout names
listed anywhere? Thanks, Tom

 

(layoutlist)

 

Layouts are listed via (layoutlist), the names are given in the form of a
list of strings. You should probably use active-x to do what you want, ie:

(setq; get active x objects
acadobj (vlax-get-acad-object)
curdoc (vla-get-activeDocument acadobj)
layouts (vla-get-layouts curdoc)
new_layout (vla-add layouts "newlayoutname")
source_layout (vla-item layouts "sourcelayoutname")
)
(vla-copyfrom new_layout source_layout)

(Note: I constructed the above code from the active-x docs and has not been
tested, give it a try and let me know if it works. It should.)

HTH,

Devin