Topic: Missing COMMAND

[whdjr]

Just over the last couple of days while I was using the VLIDE to test code my COMMAND dissappeared from the command line.  It doesn't happen on the first time I use the VLIDE, but after a while it disappears.  The only way to get it back so far is to shut down Autocad and restart the session.  It started happening while I was testing a spinner function the other day.  I thought it was the function so I used a different one.  Now it is doing it again and I'm not using any spinner functions.

AutoCad still functions properly, it is just freaky not having the word COMMAND at the command prompt.  It's like seeing things move without anything moving them (like a ghost).

Has this happened to anyone or does anyone have any ideas on how to fix the problem ( and don't say reinstall AutoCad) .

[BAshworth]

I get that at random times myself (and I'm never in the VLIDE) Normally, it just reappears after a while.

I'll have to keep an eye on this thread to see if someone has a solution.

[David Hall]

What happens if you close and reopen Autocad?  Also, so you have slide bars turned on, and if so, are you sliding by accident?

[David Hall]

OK, I could only make that happen if I un-docked my command window, but it was the sliders.  What version of Cad?

[whdjr]

I figured it out.  I just recently started using the "nomutt" system variable to stop the duplicate block error messages I was getting at insertion time.  Well I saved the value to a variable at the beginning of the code and restored the variable at the end of the code.  I even added into the error handler for that tool, but if you stop your code (in the VLIDE) and it doesn't finish then it doesn't reset the nomutt variable - hence the missing COMMAND.

[BAshworth]

Thanks for the update.  That's twice this week I've run across system variables I haven't heard of before.  Good to know.