Topic: JavaScript for AutoCAD (among other things) . . . interesting

[mohnston]

http://through-the-interface.typepad.com/through_the_interface/2013/03/autocad-2014-for-developers.html

[Kerry]

Yes, isn't it. I visualise a stampede to learn js, css, html for some people.

Also the 64-bit VBA 7.1  I imagine a lot of people forgoing their .net adventure

[CADbloke]

Also the 64-bit VBA 7.1  I imagine a lot of people forgoing their .net adventure

Stand by for weird 64-bit incompatibilities in 3...2...1...http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/gg264421.aspx

I've also found VBA compiled in one version of AutoCAD often doesn't play nice in another, generally centred around project references etc. I, for one, am still .NET bound and never looking back.

[MP]

I'm inclined to think that post was inadvertently released 6 days early.

[TheMaster]

Also the 64-bit VBA 7.1  I imagine a lot of people forgoing their .net adventure

Stand by for weird 64-bit incompatibilities in 3...2...1...http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/gg264421.aspx

I've also found VBA compiled in one version of AutoCAD often doesn't play nice in another, generally centred around project references etc. I, for one, am still .NET bound and never looking back.

VBA early-binds to COM type libraries, which have always been release-specific in AutoCAD, so not much has changed there. Pretty much every release has required VBA projects to be recompiled after removing and re-adding references to the AutoCAD type libs.

The real issues are about breaking managed code, which seems to have become a favorite pasttime.

[Kerry]

Looks like the study I've been doing on HTML and JavaScript (limited though it is) may come in handy sooner than I thought.
I won't be doing my happy-dance just yet though.

I'll raise my usual war cry ... 'Show me the documentation'

[Kerry]

More important than Javascript ...
TRUSTEDPATHS (System Variable)
http://docs.autodesk.com/ACD/2014/ENU/index.html?url=files/GUID-2FB4611D-F141-48D5-9B6E-460EB59351AF.htm,topicNumber=d30e444468
and About Protecting Against Malicious Code
http://docs.autodesk.com/ACD/2014/ENU/files/GUID-9C7E997D-28F8-4605-8583-09606610F26D.htm

[BlackBox]

More important than Javascript ...
TRUSTEDPATHS (System Variable)
<snip>

This had to be my favorite line (sarcastically) from the Beta forums on this topic:

AutoCAD will only prompt for SCR files that are located on network locations (and are outside trusted locations).  So no effect to using /b switch, as long as the script file is local. 

You will get an alert when loading a SCR from a network location (if not a trusted location). The rationale for that was it was deemed riskier to load SCR files from the network.

[TheMaster]

Looks like the study I've been doing on HTML and JavaScript (limited though it is) may come in handy sooner than I thought.
I won't be doing my happy-dance just yet though.

I'll raise my usual war cry ... 'Show me the documentation'

From looking at Kean's latest posts, it appears that js/html5 requires a network connection, or perhaps I'm mistaken?

[fxcastil]

DesignScript is a unique language. It is intended to help designers build and analyze complex geometric models that would be difficult to model with interactive techniques.

http://labs.autodesk.com/utilities/designscript

[Kerry]

DesignScript is a unique language. It is intended to help designers build and analyze complex geometric models that would be difficult to model with interactive techniques.

http://labs.autodesk.com/utilities/designscript

Sorry, I don't understand the relevance of this link to JavaScript or Security .. care to explain ?

[fxcastil]

DesignScript is a unique language. It is intended to help designers build and analyze complex geometric models that would be difficult to model with interactive techniques.

http://labs.autodesk.com/utilities/designscript

Sorry, I don't understand the relevance of this link to JavaScript or Security .. care to explain ?

It has nothing to do with JavaScript, I was responding to the (among other things) part of the title in the original post.
Since someone mentioned 64 bit VBA as being something new.

I also mentioned DesignScript as being another feature/programming capability being added to AutoCAD.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4WOIJtRE74

[Jeff H]

Is DesignScript really a new language when other than some mixed/managed classes written to talk to AutoCAD database, it is just C# including the UI, parser, etc.....

[BlackBox]

DesignScript was announced last year (AutoCAD 2013)... Not exactly new. 

[Jeff H]

Updated the Xrecord class in 2014

Code - C#: [Select]

1. [Wrapper("AcDbXrecord")]
2. public class Xrecord : DBObject, IEnumerable<TypedValue>
3. {
4.     // Methods
5.     public Xrecord();
6.     internal Xrecord(IntPtr unmanagedPointer, [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.U1)] bool autoDelete);
7.     public void Append(ResultBuffer data);
8.     public XrecordEnumerator GetEnumerator();
9.     internal unsafe AcDbXrecord* GetImpObj();
10.     public virtual IEnumerator IEnumerableGetEnumerator();
11.     public virtual IEnumerator<TypedValue> IEnumerableTypedValueGetEnumerator();
12.  
13.  
14.     // Properties
15.     public ResultBuffer Data { get; set; }
16.     public override DuplicateRecordCloning MergeStyle { get; set; }
17.     public bool XlateReferences { [return: MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.U1)] get; [param: MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.U1)] set; }
18. }
19.  
20.  
21.  
22. Expand Methods

That's a start.


MLeader.Scale  is finally added.
Document.IsNamedDrawing Ehhhh....
I guess if you read this then you can read "What's New".