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M-dub

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Pause Script for User Input?
« on: May 28, 2008, 10:31:34 AM »
Is it only possible to pause Macros for user input?  I would like to pause a Script for input.

We have a couple thousand drawings that have a section of the drawing that needs to be erased and then have an attributed block inserted at a location chosen by the user, then the attributes would be filled out based on database information.

I thought this could be done, but am I out of luck on this one?  What alternatives should I look into?
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Re: Pause Script for User Input?
« Reply #1 on: May 28, 2008, 10:44:32 AM »
It would appear that you could insert a little lisp in there to cause the script to pause for the user input.

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Re: Pause Script for User Input?
« Reply #2 on: May 28, 2008, 10:46:12 AM »
A normal script cannot be paused for user input like a macro, nor can it do diesel commands. Not sure about lisp though.
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M-dub

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Re: Pause Script for User Input?
« Reply #3 on: May 28, 2008, 10:49:36 AM »
Yes, I'm thinking lisp will have to be the way to go.


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deegeecees

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Re: Pause Script for User Input?
« Reply #4 on: May 28, 2008, 10:55:50 AM »
Is the portion of the drawing at a constant location?
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M-dub

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Re: Pause Script for User Input?
« Reply #5 on: May 28, 2008, 11:01:12 AM »
Unfortunately, we can't count on it.  That's why I'm in this predicament.
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deegeecees

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Re: Pause Script for User Input?
« Reply #6 on: May 28, 2008, 11:05:12 AM »
Thats a stickler. If there is say, a constant block sitting at a constant distance from the area that needs to be erased, you could find the ins point, etc., but if there is no constant data, you're probably going to have to do some kind of manual/scripting compromise. But, you knew that.
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Re: Pause Script for User Input?
« Reply #7 on: May 28, 2008, 11:05:36 AM »
can the selection be made with a consistent number of picks?
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M-dub

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Re: Pause Script for User Input?
« Reply #8 on: May 28, 2008, 11:07:23 AM »
Yes.  Two.

(Any more and the user can do that after the script has completed)
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Re: Pause Script for User Input?
« Reply #9 on: May 28, 2008, 11:08:40 AM »
i kinda remember something to the effect of erase;pause;pause allowing the pick points of your selection, and then it would continue
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M-dub

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Re: Pause Script for User Input?
« Reply #10 on: May 28, 2008, 11:12:13 AM »
I think that's only in a Macro and the pauses are initiated by a backslash.  ( \ )
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Re: Pause Script for User Input?
« Reply #11 on: May 28, 2008, 11:12:24 AM »
ok, that didn't work.  I would write a small lisp and call that from the script
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Re: Pause Script for User Input?
« Reply #12 on: May 28, 2008, 11:15:53 AM »
I just had something like this to do.  I have a lisp that I needed to call on some drawings, but the lisp asked for user input.  The script would stop running after the lisp was called and finished.  I could type resume at the command line to resume the script, but it would not resume by itself.  Maybe if you add a resume call to the end of the lisp it would work, as I didn't test that.
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Re: Pause Script for User Input?
« Reply #13 on: May 28, 2008, 11:16:26 AM »
Quote from: CmdrDuh on May 28, 2008, 11:12:24 AM
ok, that didn't work.  I would write a small lisp and call that from the script

Oh yeah, I hadn't thought of it that way!
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deegeecees

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Re: Pause Script for User Input?
« Reply #14 on: May 28, 2008, 11:23:17 AM »
I've got some old code I've been throwing around here for some time that is basically a Lisp that creates a script of a directory of drawings, and runs a Lisp from within it. I'm not sure if calling for user input would choke it, but worth a shot maybe. I can't expand on it myself ATM (under the gun for shop dwgs), but maybe you could.

http://www.theswamp.org/index.php?topic=22901.msg276124#msg276124
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