Toolbar commands and lisp routines

I have a toolbar that is placing a block, on a specific layer, asks for user input on an attribute, etc...works great.
'-layer s e-fire ^C^C-insert "fh.dwg="
Now I want to "add" to that same toolbar a lisp routine. When I try to do it this way:
'-layer s e-fire ^C^C-insert "fh.dwg=";\^C^Ca0
It finds the block but does not place it and immediately goes into the lisp routine. Any ideas?

 

I figure it out...
'-layer s e-fire ^C^C-insert "fh.dwg=";\\\\ ^C^Ca0

How do I get it to REPEAT the beginning of this command by using the right-click option? Currently when I right-click, it repeats the "a0" lisp...I need it to repeat the placement of "fh"

 

Try this:

-layer s 0^c^c-insert;"fh.dwg=";\\\\\^c^ca0

Bob

 

That did not work, in fact it did not run the lisp routine "a0"

 

You need (5) '\' if you have an attribute.. (4) if not.

Bob

 

Sorry, I think there might be some confusion on my part.

The command sets the active layer to e-fire
'-layer s e-fire

then it places the block with an attribute
^C^C-insert "fh.dwg=";\\\\
I understand the "5" \'s but it does not allow the execution of the lisp routine unless there is a "right-click" on the mouse. Even more, any more right-clicking just executes the lisp routine.

Once the block is placed, scaled, rotated, and attribute entered to which the operator wishes, the "a0" lips routine is executed to where it will rotate the attribute text to a 0 anlge once it is selected
^C^Ca0

If a right-click of the mouse occurs after all that, it takes me back to the lisp routine and not the placement of the block.

 

Try starting the menu item with *^C^C to make it repeat automatically. Then
you don't have to right-click to repeat it -- it will just do it until you
cancel it out. But I do wonder about the ^C^C things in there. The first
one could be replaced with a simple ; or space, either of which will end
the layer command, so there's no need for canceling anything. Likewise, if
the insert command is finished after the \'s, canceling doesn't do anything
for you. The one situation related to this where I've used a cancel inside
a menu item is in one that redefines an existing block where I don't want to
add another one (asks for the block name, then does the
-INSERT <blockname>=
routine, and cancels after loading in the new definition, when the insertion
base point prompt is there).

 

RIGHT-CLICK repeats the only last command, the lisp function was the last command so that is all that is repeated.

Try building a lisp routine that includes all the data collection, then inserts the block per the data the executes (c:a0). Putting that on a button should repeat with a right-click.