Hi Jeff
Thank you again!
That was a very good explanation.
This whole thing started as a result of the email notifications not working for a day or so, if you recall?
I did not see many of those posts until after I had already sifted through that cumbersome VLAX Module and took what I needed.
I did see your post about accessing Excel and you are right, I thought it was a great idea in theory and was ready to post and tell you so; then I saw that Glenn said it would be a scary thing to do. I also realized that what you said in your aforementioned comment; that it does not really make sense to connect to Excel, just to do that. Would it be harmful; I'm not so sure.
I've seen a VB Script, that you double click on it and it closes all programs in one shot.
It is a useful little utility, however, the person that developed it said, you must have Word installed.
At first, I was like WTF? I must admit, I have used it a few times and there has been no problem.
Actually, here is the other unique situation I am facing; that I never felt that I needed to explain.
My boss is a fantastic AutoLisp programmer, he has done some great things.
He is a pretty good VBA programmer; he picks up on it very quickly as he has been programming for years.
For the last 4 or so years, I have been in trenched in VBA; help screens, examples, forums etc.
I am not saying by any stretch that I am a better programmer then anyone but I happen to understand and know my way around the syntax and environment a bit more then he does, I'm sure.
OK, so of course he still does a lot in LISP because he is really fast at it and LISP is still alive and well; so if VBA is not explicitly needed, then LISP is fine. Well, there are things that he has done in LISP that frankly may not be worth out time to try to re create in VBA, so I simply said, OK, if we need to expand on it via VBA, then maybe we can do something. That is what started this whole VLAX ordeal LOL
OK, finally, to your question
I created an sset in VBA and did not delete it at the end because I (or the user) may want to use it for further things in ACAD, as they are not programmers. So, I thought that it would be nice to keep it available for this sort of thing.
May be I could use Filter in ACAD, I don't know?
I'm not sure how The Filter command in ACAD would grab the last created object.
If it could, then I could use that named sset in ACAD.
I was trying to reuse the (named) selection set in ACAD to do somethings yesterday and just got frustrated because I could not access it by name; which really amazes me.
May be there is a way; if so, please let me know.
Otherwise, your routine is excellent!
Thank you,
Mark