Toggle between drawings?

Actually, you can write the lisp to create a script on the fly and have it
close the previous drawing...

 

Thanks Jason, Rudy for the ideas. I will have to play around and see what I can come up with.

Tim

 

Jason (or anyone who knows),

Is there a reason why this won't work?
(command "_.vbastmt" "documents.item(GetDocNumber DocCol (vla-get-Name ErrChk)).activate")
But this does?
(command "_.vbastmt" "documents.item(2).activate")

All are valid variables. From the command line.
Command: (GetDocNumber DocCol (vla-get-Name ErrChk))
2

Command: (command "_.vbastmt" "documents.item(GetDocNumber DocCol (vla-get-Name
ErrChk)).activate")
_.vbastmt
Expression: documents.item(GetDocNumber DocCol (vla-get-Name ErrChk)).activate
Syntax Error

Command: (command "_.vbastmt" "documents.item(2).activate")
_.vbastmt
Expression: documents.item(2).activate
Command: nil

Can you just not use sub-functions with the vbastmt command?

Thanks.
Tim

 

Not sure, I've never tried.

 

Found this tucked away in a file, perhaps it helps?
(from Doug Broad, IIRC)

(command "vbastmt"
"documents.item(documents.count-1).sendcommand \"(load
\"\"setup\"\")(c:setup) \" ")

 

This one switches (I'm guessing) to the last drawing, then loads the file setup, and runs it. It doesn't look like it will accept a lisp variable. I will look into coding it like it was vba variable, then I'm thinking it will work.

Thanks.
Tim

 

This one worked on my tests.
(command "_.vbastmt" (strcat "documents.item \(\"" (vla-get-Name ErrChk) "\"\).activate"))

Where ErrChk is a valid document object.

Thanks for the point in the right direction.
Tim

 

You bet, glad I could (sort of) help.