Topic: Button Macro Fails for OVERKILL. Why?

[chilldaddy]

Testing a button macro code to invoke the  OVERKILL command including the selection option as ALL entities, the process stalls when the dialog box appears.

PROBLEM: The attempted macro code stalls after entity selection.
The dialog box appears and the ACCEPT button must depressed before it continues.

CODE: C^C^_OVERKILL;ALL;;APPLY;

QUESTION: What is the needed in the above code to complete processing?

Thanks,
Clint

[chilldaddy]

I found this super button macro code that WORKS and DOES MUCH MORE than Overkill!

^C^C-OVERKILL;all;;;_zoom;e;-purge;a;;n;audit;y;-purge;a;;n;qsave

[JohnK]

Since this post is in the AutoLisp forum, might as well get some lisp for similar functionality.

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(progn (command) (command) (vl-load-com) (vla-zoomextents (vlax-get-acad-object)) (mapcar '(lambda (x) (repeat 2 (eval x))) '( (command "_.purge" "a" "" "n") (command "_.audit" "y") (command "_.purge" "a" "" "n") )) (command "_.qsave") (princ))

Which is a small lisp that does the same as your macro (and looks like this):

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1. (progn
2.   (command) (command)
3.   (vl-load-com)
4.   (vla-zoomextents (vlax-get-acad-object))
5.   (mapcar
6.     '(lambda (x) (repeat 2 (eval x)))
7.     '(
8.       (command "_.purge" "a" "" "n")
9.       (command "_.audit" "y")
10.       (command "_.purge" "a" "" "n")
11.       )
12.     )
13.   (command "_.qsave")
14.   (princ)
15.   )

[kdub_nz]

To members:
Please keep in mind that some of us use a dark background, and blue on black is a pain.

for generic code, simply use a code tag:

Code: [Select]

^C^C-OVERKILL;all;;;_zoom;e;-purge;a;;n;audit;y;-purge;a;;n;qsave


[tombu]

Keep in mind there are a ton of settings for the OVERKILL command that affect outcome and could cause it to fail normally set in it's dialog box but can be set in lisp as well.