Properties Manager Items In a Toolbar???

Ok. Hopefully I can properly explain this. Is there a way to take something from the Properties Manager Box and put it into a toolbar. i.e. I have my Properties Manager Dialog box over on the left of my ACAD window. I select an xref and its info comes up in the Properties Manager Box. All of its info like name, location, layer, etc. etc. So my question is is there any way to take some of those properties and put them into a toolbar. I'm looking for a way to get the name part of the Properties Dialog box into a toolbar B/C thats mainly what I use the PM Box for. I would like to have that show up in a toolbar or even just somewhere on its own. Without it having to be in the PM Box.

So does that make sense? Is there any possibility of this happening? Am I shooting for too much?

Thanks for any help, ideas, and/or advice,
JRodriguez

 

well, here's one simple way to just get the name
(you could easily add other properties as desired)

(defun c:getname( / item vo itemname)
(if
(and
(setq item(car(entsel"\nPick item to read name")))
(setq vo(vlax-ename->vla-object item))
(null
(vl-catch-all-error-p
(setq itemname
(vl-catch-all-apply
'vlax-get-property
(list
vo
'name
)
)
)
)
);null
)
(alert itemname)
(alert "No name property")
);IF
)

or you could put it on status bar with modemacro sysvar
or make a simple dialog (dcl or vb) to display (like if you wanted to modify
the property)

etc

as far as on a toolbar itself, i think you'd need arx for that
hth
Mark

something from the Properties Manager Box and put it into a toolbar. i.e. I
have my Properties Manager Dialog box over on the left of my ACAD window. I
select an xref and its info comes up in the Properties Manager Box. All of
its info like name, location, layer, etc. etc. So my question is is there
any way to take some of those properties and put them into a toolbar. I'm
looking for a way to get the name part of the Properties Dialog box into a
toolbar B/C thats mainly what I use the PM Box for. I would like to have
that show up in a toolbar or even just somewhere on its own. Without it
having to be in the PM Box.

 

I would like to have that show up in a toolbar or even just somewhere

There is no way to see xref names in a toolbar. You may want to take a
look at my shareware Periscope utility
(http://www.manusoft.com/Software/Periscope/Index.stm) as it is designed for
exactly this situation.