TheSwamp
Code Red => AutoLISP (Vanilla / Visual) => Visual DCL Programming => Topic started by: curmudgeon on February 22, 2012, 01:39:15 PM
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subject line kind of says it.
I want to link to edit boxes so that an action tile for one sets the content of the other.
maybe I can't do this thing.
Lee has a WONDERFUL routine for updating list boxes, and maybe I reconsider the entire layout of my dialog box,
but even if I do, I would still like to understand whether I cannot do this, or simply don't know how yet.
as an action_tile for an edit box,
(action_tile "key" "(set_tile "otherkey" "(get_tile \"key\")")
something like that, but I have not had any success yet.
thanks.
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What I like to do is incorporate a sub to update the dialog. Then I call this sub every time there is a change to a variable or in your case an edit box. Then the sub updates everything
So you would have something like:
(action_tile "sometile" "(setq MyVar $value)(UpdateDialog)")
Then the sub:
(defun UpdateDialg (/)
(if (= MayVar "Whatever")
(set_tile "NewTile" "ToThis")
(set_tile "NewTile" "ToThat")
)
You could go as far as to have an argument for the sub so that the sub only execute a certain portion of code based on the argument supplied. (this can cut down on the unneeded execution of code)
TIM
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just beginning to work with dialog boxes.
I appreciate creating a function as you did with UpdateDialog.
in the code I have studied, the use of $value has been inconsistent at best,
and I am unsure of all the ramifications. probably pretty simple.
I am guessing here - the dialog being called would have value = $value as an attribute of "NewTile"?
and if so, is the $ important, necessary, superfluous?
I guess I am asking if just any old (setq item myvalue) work as well.
I won't get to play any more until Thursday, thanks.
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I am guessing here - the dialog being called would have value = $value as an attribute of "NewTile"?
and if so, is the $ important, necessary, superfluous?
Read the following section in the VLIDE Help Documentation:
AutoLISP Developer's Guide
Working with Programmable Dialog Boxes
Managing Dialog Boxes
Action Expressions & Callbacks
Action Expressions
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If you are just starting out on dialogs, they can be very overwhelming, not only to create but to control. $value represents the value of that specific tile when an action is taken on it, ie, a radio button or edit box, etc. Each tile type has a diffarent value type, it a depends on the type of tile that you are using.
As Lee suggested, read the vlide or what I found helpful with dialogs is <THIS> (http://www.amazon.com/AutoLISP-Programming-Rod-Rawls/dp/1566374170)
This along with Afralisp were great resources.
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Sunday evening and I am just now having time to play.
Thanks guys, I don't OWN IT yet, but the $value concept is working here.
The first dialog I want to use the concept on, drawing windows in elevation.
I need both the dimensions and type, and in a separate edit box, designator text (catalog logic).
I can use the catalog logic to set dimensions and type, or build the designator text from dimensions and type.
And I am sure that when I conquer here, I will think of lots of other stuff. Thanks.
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Once you get something together, post it up and we can help.
TIM