Script will work dependant on Zoomed area

I've been writing scripts for 20 years or so. Just recently I've noticed
some of my newer scripts in 2004 won't work unless a zoom of some sort is
performed. Or, put another way. A certain x portion of the drawing must be
visible. Am I going crazy?

I've created a simple move script that will find a datestamp and move it x
amount to the right. In the old days they had the datestamp lining up on the
extreme left side of the page. When the sheets are bound together you can't
read the info. So recently we've started moving it to the right to avoid
this issue. I've written a quick little script for my own use that
accomplishes this. However, when I first wrote the script I noticed that I
needed to be zoomed in pretty close for the move selection to work. Then
zoom out x scale factor to get back to where I started.

Today I just wrote another script to erase some pound signs (#) used to
designate "Text needed here" and insert a block of the needed text into the
erased text positions. I'm erasing 4 different pound signs. 2 in the lower
right hand corner of the drawing and 2 in the upper right hand corner. If I
just open the drawing and run the script only 1 pound sign gets removed. But
if I add a Zoom All or Zoom extents to the script it erases all the
necessary pound signs.

Why is this?

J. Logan

 

Now for some reason if I remove the first Zoom Window and go with Move and
then Zoom the object I'm trying to move doesn't get moved.

^C^CZOOM W -.5,-.5 5,3 Move .2,.2 .2,.2 1.325,.2 ^C^Czoom all zoom scale
..85x

--------------------- another example -------------------
This particular one I've gone with just Zooming extents manully before
Whacking the button to run the script file. If I don't zoom Extents all that
gets erased is the object at 29.22,.3445.

^C^CFILEDIA 0 _SCR "ERASE CHK-APP" FILEDIA 1

Erase CHK_APP.SCR (below)

_ERASE
29.222,.3445
30.2205,.5623
31.5,20.7
31.812,20.4228

_INSERT
TRS-DLS-JRL
31.75,20.25
1
1
0

J. Logan

 

I've already started taking that step. I've written the routine in Lisp and
have tested just need to get back to it and tweak it when I have a chance.

Thanks Jon

J. Logan

A little LISP might