What command is being issued when...

I click on the "X" in the upper right hand corner and the "save changes" message appears and I click on "ok"?

 

If it's the far upper right hand corner, it would be Exit. If it's the
slightly smaller one just below that, it would be Close.

 

Or if you're asking about the OK part itself, I assume that would have to be
Qsave (or, if the drawing isn't named, Saveas, which is what Qsave would
turn into under those circumstances), followed immediately by Close or Exit.

 

Looking into the Command Reference in Help to remind myself of the exact
differences between Qsave, Save, and Saveas, I find under related topics
that what is called "Exit" on the File pull-down menu is really QUIT
(AutoCAD has no "Exit" command by that name), so that would be the command
that the X in the far upper right corner issues. "Save" on that pull-down
menu is really QSAVE. If you have 2000 or earlier with a screen menu, on
the screen File sub-menu it uses the correct command names QSAVE and QUIT,
rather than the substitute names used on the standard Toolbar's File
pull-down menu. The SAVE command is not available on either -- you have to
type it in (or make your own menu item somewhere).

 

Seems funny that I have a reactor that I load occasionally that will throw up a message box with the name of the comand that was issued. When I click on the "X" in the upper right corner on the drawing, no command shows up. I have a command reactor that is activated when either "save" "saveas" or "qsave" is issued, and it doesn't run either.

 

Not knowing how your reactor is set up, I wonder whether the "problem" is
because at the time you pick OK and the Qsave or Saveas happens, it's
already in the middle of doing a Close or Quit.

You might get around that by doing what I do when I want to get out of a
drawing and save any changes. I have menu items (simple macro routines)
that, among other things, save the drawing first (in two places with QSAVE
and SAVE, which I think is better than the recent thread involving copying
the .sv$ file, since if you need it, the extra backup is already a regular
drawing file). Then they call for Close or Quit, and since the drawing was
just saved, it doesn't need to ask whether you want to save, and you don't
need to pick OK. So the saving part is at least not inside the Close or
Quit command, and maybe it would show your message box.

 

If you want to trap for all instances where a drawing might be saved, rather
than a reactor for the save, savas, qsave commands, you could use a reactor
for the :vlr-BeginSave event of the vlr-editor-reactor.
I don't use reactors, but I do use the Events in VBA which seems to me what
the vlr- functions are duplicating.

HTH,

 

Does the small X actually run the CLOSE command? or some other command?
I have an auto purge routine that runs if I type CLOSE, but does not run if I use the X.

 

Hi tsigwing

The ':VLR-documentToBeDestroyed' event of 'VLR-DocManager-Reactor' fire in
*all* cases of leaving a document...

Cheers

 

Well, it's got to be the equivalent of Close (that is, Close is the only
AutoCAD command that does what the small X does), but maybe it accomplishes
it by some other means the through the actual command. I don't know of any
way to tell, since of course the command history disappears as you do it, so
you can't look back.