Topic: CHALLENGE: Individual attribute edit like DDEDIT

[nivuahc]

doh!

[nivuahc]

Whoa! I just tried out the latest and clicked the ESC button on my mouse...

; entering keyboard break loop

AutoCAD has become completely unresponsive....


EDIT:

VLisp highlights the following for me:

Code: [Select]

(vl-catch-all-apply
               '(lambda ( )
                    (setq
                        data nil
                        data (grread t 13 2)
                    )
                )
            )

[nivuahc]

Well closing VLisp resets the break loop... what'd I do wrong?

[Keith™]

You have the vlisp options to break on all errors.

[ronjonp]

Cool routine MP . Hey chuck...you're not crazy. I'm seeing choppiness when the routine is runnning and it's not that my machine is slow.

Ron

[MP]

Hmmm, I can't explain the choppiness -- I've run it on 2 different PCs, 2 different versions of AutoCAD, with and without a glut of attribute laden blocks -- runs fine. <scratchin' nuggin>.

PS: Did another edit -- dumped the edit box label -- it was just chewing up real estate.



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[Sdoman]

I like that EditAttrib routine! Thanks MP!

I tested your routine on a drawing that contains lots of blocks with lots of attributes.  Performed better then the native Attedit command.  Quick and light.

I also tried a couple other routines posted, all of them are very worthy routines.  What a great place this Swamp is.

[ronjonp]

Hey MP,

How hard would it be to make the routine have a shift selection to select multiple attributes and change them all at once?

Ron

[MP]

Hey MP,

How hard would it be to make the routine have a shift selection to select multiple attributes and change them all at once?

Ron

Wouldn't be hard, but would be a different code variant -- grread does not provide the ability to recognize the state of the shift key. A variant that achieves what you're implying might be as follows --

Go into a polling loop -- as long as the user selects (hilites) attributes (clicking them again would would de-select / de-hilite them) the program would collect them. If the user presssed [enter] and any attributes were collected they'd then be displayed for editing, say 8 to a screen, otherwise the program would terminate.

[FengK]

Edit 1: Added hililiting when cursor is over a valid attribute entity.
Edit 2: Commented code a bit for others.
Edit 3: Added a little screen grab for fun.
Edit 4: Dumped the edit box label.

Nice job Michael.  Can I ask what software you used for the screen recording?

[MP]

Nice job Michael.  Can I ask what software you used for the screen recording?

Thanks Kelie, I used Camtasia Studio, about $300 and worth every penny in my estimation.

[FengK]

i was thinking something like this should work too.

prompt user to pick entity (nentsel, nentselp);
extract old string;
create a temporary text object with that string;
issue DDEDIT command and ask user to modify the temporary text;
put the new string from the text object to the originally picked entity;
delete the temporary text object.

just an idea. not implemented.

[CAB]

i was thinking something like this should work too.

prompt user to pick entity (nentsel, nentselp);
extract old string;
create a temporary text object with that string;
issue DDEDIT command and ask user to modify the temporary text;
put the new string from the text object to the originally picked entity;
delete the temporary text object.

just an idea. not implemented.

Guess you didn't look at my code.
http://www.theswamp.org/index.php?topic=10028.msg128482#msg128482

[Keith™]

i was thinking something like this should work too.

prompt user to pick entity (nentsel, nentselp);
extract old string;
create a temporary text object with that string;
issue DDEDIT command and ask user to modify the temporary text;
put the new string from the text object to the originally picked entity;
delete the temporary text object.

just an idea. not implemented.

Guess you didn't look at my code.
http://www.theswamp.org/index.php?topic=10028.msg128482#msg128482

Or mine just a couple posts:
http://www.theswamp.org/index.php?topic=10028.msg128438#msg128438

Only I used the default edit box instead of the ddedit one and I didn't duplicate the item as text .. I figured why bother .. if you can read the test, then just edit it.

[FengK]

Sorry, CAB and Keith.  As you guys guessed, I didn't read the code from you.