Topic: reactor creeping in?

[curmudgeon]

trying to get my head around dialog boxes, writing a custom search and replace routine. I am starting like this:

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(defun c:far (/)
 
  (setq ent (entget (car (entsel "\n Pick Text to search for: ")))
txt (cdr (assoc 1 ent))
loc (cdr (assoc 10 ent))
  )
  (setq newstr (getstring (strcat "\n Replace " txt " with: ")))
  (setq ss1 (ssget "x" (list (cons 1 txt) '(8 . "TEXT"))))
  (repeat (sslength ss1)
    (entget (ssname ss1 0))
    )


)
nothing fancy, just getting under way. but when I take a look at what (entget (ssname ss1 0)) returns it is:

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((-1 . <Entity name: 1962850>) (0 . "TEXT") (5 . "1A062") (102 . "{ACAD_REACTORS") (330 . <Entity name: 1962fa8>) (102 . "}") (330 . <Entity name: 192f8f8>) (100 . "AcDbEntity") (67 . 0) (410 . "Model") (8 . "TEXT") (100 . "AcDbText") (10 3451.33 9.0 0.0) (40 . 4.0) (1 . "C1960") (50 . 0.0) (41 . 0.8) (51 . 0.0) (7 . "CLK") (71 . 0) (72 . 1) (11 3458.91 11.0 0.0) (210 0.0 0.0 1.0) (100 . "AcDbText") (73 . 2))
I manually check other pieces of text in ss1, and see no mention of ACAD_REACTORS.
As far as I know, no weirdness has crept into my file from other sources. How can I have gotten reactors?

 :ugly:

[Lee Mac]

MLeader / Field?

[curmudgeon]

I don't use MLeader, I wrote my own leader routine when autocad only had single line text for the leader, and I never looked back.
I go to the mysterious text entity, and it is just plain text. The only thing strange in the dxf code is the reactor stuff.
Still puzzled, but trudging onward with the routine.

I guess if it is serious, it will have to happen more than once.
 

[curmudgeon]

HOLD THE PRESSES >>>>>

the text is in an area that has been hatched. it is an elevation, the text is a window designator, and I just HATCH with the text on and let autocad treat the text object as something to hatch around. then I have been known to STRETCH those text entities after hatching....

maybe this it an explanation, or heading that way?

[dgorsman]

AutoCAD adds in the reactor part when it has to do something with the text, like the hatch you described.  Don't sweat it - for most part they are harmless.

[curmudgeon]

Thanks.