While active editor....

Ok, Doug, Luis or anyone, feel free to comment....

Dialog show
Action_button
Close dialog
Open windows editor
Do this or That
Close windows editor
Show dialog
etc.

The problem is switching to the windows editor, that gets minimized if the
autocad dialog is still active. No problem, close autocad dialog then show
windows editor, but how do I recall the autocad dialog without it being the
active dialog, when I close the windows dialog....?

 

Rudy,
See below:

DCL stuff?

What windows editor? Are you switching applications?
Are you entering mtext?

What autocad dialog? Just use (new_dialog ...) to display a particular dialog.

 

I would suggest that you always close the dialog. What advantage
would there be to keeping the dialog open? Notepad is another
application though and though autocad may be its parent, the notepad
window is only affected if you don't change focus to the other application.

Can't say I do this much. Post some demo code so we can avoid
talking in generalities.

Regards,
Doug

 

ahhhh....no....the question is this....If I'm controling a dialog within
autocad and I pick a button to call the windows editor, as an example
"notepad", how can I switch to "notepad" without closing the current autocad
dialog, and avoid autocad from minimizing "notepad" and keeping the currrent
autocad dialog active, or should I say on top.

 

Thanks for your reply Doug, sorry for the long wait..., my mind was in lala
land....programming...forgot about post....

Yeah, that's exactly what I did... two different entities....

Oh, the code is so generic that, sorry I didn't feel it was really necessary
since the issue was more on ingenuity...

The code could have been displayed as such...

(action_tile "button0" "(do_this_or_that)")

(defun do_this_or_that (/)
etc.
(startapp <windows_editor> <file>)
(Princ)
)

Or

(action_tile "button0" "(setq close_cond 1)(done_dialog)")

;at the end of unload dialog

(cond
((= close_cond 1)(do_this_or_that))
etc.
)

 

This is one reason I learn VBA. The simple stuff needing user's input can
stay on the command line using intget, getkword, getstring ect. The routines
that require a lot more info I use the forms in VBA. A heck of a lot easier
to create and pass info to/from a dialog.

Murph