Author Topic: Drawing Description (Read 4498 times)

bman · « **on:** January 11, 2005, 11:07:34 AM »

Is there a way to attach a brief description to a drawing file that can be viewed within windows explorer when you hover over a particular file?

ELOQUINTET · « **Reply #1 on:** January 11, 2005, 11:11:11 AM »

i would reccomend buying a copy of blockwerx. it allows you to fill in custom info for your drawings among many other things.

Keith™ · « **Reply #2 on:** January 11, 2005, 12:11:45 PM »

You can access the drawing properties and enter the information there ... anything on the summary tab in the comment area will show when you hover. These properties can also be accessed with vlisp and VBA

bman · « **Reply #3 on:** January 11, 2005, 03:26:55 PM »

Keith -

how do you get the comments to be included in the hover pop-up box?

currently it's displaying Type, Date Modified & Size, but no comments

Peter · « **Reply #4 on:** February 16, 2005, 04:00:34 PM »

Try "cadexplorer" from www.cadwerx.net.

With this "explorer Plugin" you can display many information (read directly from the file: Acadversion, saved by, Comments, author ....) as well on the cursor (kind of "Tooltip") or in the columns of Explorer.

Also you can try "Total Commander" (www.ghisler.com), a "Norton Commander"-style, very powerful file-manger. The function "file description" shows you infos too (but no infos which are saved inside the drawing)

Peter

Andrea · « **Reply #5 on:** February 17, 2005, 01:13:48 PM »

simply.....with FileExplorer 4.1

MP · « **Reply #6 on:** February 17, 2005, 01:26:48 PM »

Code: [Select]

(vla-put-comments
    (vla-get-summaryinfo
        (vla-get-activedocument
            (vlax-get-acad-object)
        )
    )
    "This drawing was created by a druid."
)

Peter · « **Reply #7 on:** February 17, 2005, 01:35:48 PM »

Hello MP

your code writes information to the file. But the original question is:

Quote

Is there a way to attach a brief description to a drawing file that can be viewed within windows explorer when you hover over a particular file?

Peter

MP · « **Reply #8 on:** February 17, 2005, 01:38:16 PM »

Sorry, I peruse questions too fast some times. Peace.

SPDCad · « **Reply #9 on:** February 17, 2005, 02:53:57 PM »

Quote from: bman

Keith -

how do you get the comments to be included in the hover pop-up box?

currently it's displaying Type, Date Modified & Size, but no comments

If you are using Windows XP, you can display comments among other properties of your files in Windows Explorer.
Just right click the properties bar, and check which properties you wished displayed.

Peter · « **Reply #10 on:** February 18, 2005, 05:51:23 AM »

Quote from: SPDCad

... Windows XP, you can display comments among other properties of your files ...

Sorry, now I'm confused: What are we talking about ??
To my mind there are differences between

- the comments written from Explorer (with "File Properties" to all kinds of files - doc, bmp, txt, ...)
- comments which are part of the DWG-Props inside AutoCAD

First ones can be displayed with "Standard-Windows-Explorer"; the other ones need an Explorer-plugin (like "Cadexplorer") to be displayed with explorer.

Peter

Keith™ · « **Reply #11 on:** February 18, 2005, 08:59:46 AM »

In A2k4 it is automatic, as well as the bitmap preview in windows.

Peter · « **Reply #12 on:** February 22, 2005, 02:30:48 AM »

Quote from: MP

Code: [Select]
(vla-put-comments (vla-get-summaryinfo (vla-get-activedocument (vlax-get-acad-object) ) ) "This drawing was created by a druid." )

Hello MP,

I tried this code and I get the error "no function definition: VLA-GET-SUMMARYINFO"

Peter

Mark · « **Reply #13 on:** February 22, 2005, 04:43:57 AM »

I believe that's a fairly new function, what version of acad are you using?

Peter · « **Reply #14 on:** February 22, 2005, 05:27:29 AM »

Hello Mark,

I just updated my signature ..

Acad 2002 SP1 german / Express Tools 1-9
Win 2000 Prof.

Peter

MP · « **Reply #15 on:** February 22, 2005, 08:19:02 AM »

Sig updated. :)

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