Topic: Retrieving and Setting Autocad Registry Settings

[jjs]

Having trouble figuring out the appname and section

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varreturn = GetSetting("HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Autodesk\AutoCAD\R17.1\ACAD-6006:409\Profiles\AutoCAD MEP (US Imperial)\Dialogs", "AecbElec55-DeviceAdd", "SymbolName", "test")
Anybody done this before want to give me a hand?

[jjs]

Thanks for the answer chuck

http://groups.google.com/group/autodesk.autocad.customization.vba/browse_thread/thread/20e611317263eafd/d0d36df3a154ae16%23d0d36df3a154ae16

[Chuck Gabriel]

That was too easy. 

[jjs]

Ok, got a more difficult one for you. I have it writing the value to the registry now. The problem is that autocad must not be reading from the registry each time. How do I force autocad to get its values from registry again.

The actual thing I am doing is with Autocad MEP deviceadd command. I am trying to set the devicestyle before I run the command so that it will use the device I want it to. This is not implemented in the vba object it seems. I coudl do it with lots of sendcommands, but that might be a problem, since I would not know if the command had finished. and I hate sendcommand.

[Chuck Gabriel]

I believe AutoCAD only reads settings from the registry at load time (for the most part), so registry hacking probably won't prove to be a very effective way to change settings on a live session.

[Guest]

I don't think there's a straight-forward way to add a device using VBA (not that I've found anyways).  You're most likely going to have to use SendCommand for some of this.   

[jjs]

chuck, back in the vbdesign days, I thought you had some program you needed to install and you needed to change the registry and randall figured out a way to get it to update. It was either you or hatch i thought.

[Chuck Gabriel]

chuck, back in the vbdesign days, I thought you had some program you needed to install and you needed to change the registry and randall figured out a way to get it to update. It was either you or hatch i thought.

It must've been Hatch (but wouldn't he have just answered his own question).

[Dnereb]

chuck, back in the vbdesign days, I thought you had some program you needed to install and you needed to change the registry and randall figured out a way to get it to update. It was either you or hatch i thought.

Did you search Expresso Café for it?

[jjs]

I have the version he gave away a long time ago. But the only way I have to search it is with windows search. I could not find out how to make windows search use two words for the search such as
registry AND reload

it would always search for any of the words I type in. Do you know of any other way to search it?

[Dnereb]

Mmmmm,

I've bought a version less then a year before cadvaults shutdown.
The html structure is quite organized. I'm currently at my day time job.
And I don't have expresso here. I will search it tonight to see if randall included something that fits your description.

[Kerry]

I've just been scanning a couple of backup cd's.
Came across a heap of PM backups and forum Page backups.

To those who made that time a pleasure, thanks. You know who you are.

[Dnereb]

Grmpfffffff, you had to exclude me didn't you....

[Dnereb]

jjs,

I've searched my version and here's no article that hints on reloading changed registry values as far as I could find.

[Kerry]

Grmpfffffff, you had to exclude me didn't you....

Hi Berend ..

Nope ! 

[jjs]

Thanks kerry,
Now I feel stupid. I did not figure out that Dnereb was berend. But after your post I did. Now I feel really stupid.

Berend, you aren't the one that was from Norway or something that believes in global warming are you? Not that I want to start debating that issue again.

[Dnereb]

Smadsen was from Norway, I'm dutch.
The disscussion ended after you posted you would get back on the shark teeth issue....... still waiting

[jjs]

refresh my memory about the shark teeth issue.

Dutch, that is right. You also believed in reparations for past slave trade atrocities?

[Maverick®]

*Subconscious*   New thread, New thread, New thread

[Dnereb]

jjs,

I guess this thread becomes a bit chit chatty and should be split of.
No,I do not believe in repair, I do think we have to realize our riches and partially the african poverty are a result of the slave trade and colonization.
The shark issue was about evolution, you used the fact that shark teeth stayed the same in every layer as an argument to show evolution might not be taking place. My reply was roughly How can you revoke complete skeletons as proof of change, but use just teeth to argue something stays the same.

But as said we had some nice discussions a while back... let's keep it that way.
I remember them as very intresting and with a smile.

Have a nice day and bye for now.


@Mav,

Hi strangly smiling man at the bridge.

[jjs]

Just trying to jog my old memory see if I remembered correctly or not. Without Stig in the discussion, it just would not be the same.

Those were some good times.