Topic: 08, VBA, and Vista

[David Hall]

Has anyone gotten VBA and 08 to play nicely on Vista?  I brought some of my code from work home, and kept getting catastrophic failures. (Thats what the msgbox says, yet Autocad doesn't crash.)  I'm beginning to think Vista is a really bad thing for Autocad at this point

[MP]

Try running AutoCAD as an administrator. Right click shortcut "Run as administrator".

Trying to run Visual BASIC 6 otherwise was a gong show, especially when trying to compile dlls (kept getting a friendly and illuminating 0x80004005 error).

You can set shortcuts to always run as said state (on shortcurt by shortcut basis), which makes it a little easier.

[David Hall]

I did the rigft click thing, and that didn't help.

[David Hall]

and the sub is very basic

Code: [Select]

Public Sub VPLock()
      On Error GoTo Err_Control
      Dim vp As AcadPViewport
      Dim gpCode(0) As Integer
      Dim dataValue(0) As Variant
      Dim objSelSet As AcadSelectionSet
      gpCode(0) = 0
      dataValue(0) = "VIEWPORT"
      Set objSelSet = ThisDrawing.SelectionSets.Add("VPL")
      objSelSet.Select acSelectionSetAll, , , gpCode, dataValue

      For Each vp In objSelSet
            If vp.DisplayLocked = True Then
                  vp.DisplayLocked = False
            End If
      Next
Exit_Here:
      Exit Sub
Err_Control:
      Select Case Err.Number
      Case "-2145320851"
            ThisDrawing.SelectionSets.Item("VPL").Delete
            Err.Clear
            Resume
      Case Else
            MsgBox Err.Number & Err.Description
            Err.Clear
            Resume Exit_Here
      End Select
End Sub

[MP]

YEOW!

Sorry, without a clue (more than normally that is).

[David Hall]

Funny thing is, in the local window, 80% of the entries say "No Database" like VBA suddenly lost the connection to the dwg.  Even if Im in the Thisdrawing module.

[MP]

I ran your code on machine Cmdr and no errors (Vista Ultimate + AutoCAD '08).

??

(And it did unlock locked viewports).

[David Hall]

I have Vista Home Premium i think
edit : Confirmed

[David Hall]

You can set shortcuts to always run as said state (on shortcurt by shortcut basis), which makes it a little easier.

MP, How?  I haven't seen this anywhere, but I will admit I haven't looked to hard.  I hate Vista, but I know I will have to learn it soon enough

[David Hall]

Just found it. we will see if that fixes my code

[MP]

<fingers crossed>

[David Hall]

did'nt fix it

[DinØsaur]

IT at work is testing Vista Ultimate 64 wit Civil 3D 2008 (crammed FULL of VBA) and is not having any similar issues.

[joseguia]

Has anyone gotten VBA and 08 to play nicely on Vista?  I brought some of my code from work home, and kept getting catastrophic failures. (Thats what the msgbox says, yet Autocad doesn't crash.)  I'm beginning to think Vista is a really bad thing for Autocad at this point

Vista/Cad 64Bit or 32Bit?

I have had issues with Vista 64bit and 2008 (64bit), but none with Vista 32 Bit and 2008(32bit).

[David Hall]

32 both items.  I wonder if its b/c of the Home Edition?