Calling QSELECT from a dialog.

[William_Gonzales_Sanchez]

Hello everybody,
I have a dialog that works with selected objects and I have add a button that hides the dialog and calls the QSELECT command ( using 'acedCommand()' ), the QSELECT dialog is showed but the problem appears when I select the "Select objects" button on the Quick Select dialog box: the QSELECT dialog is hidden but the command line never gets the focus, so the dialogs are not shown again and AutoCAD becomes "dead".
How can I solve this problem? It seems that the focus must be placed in the command line before calling 'acedCommand()', how can I do it? Also, is there a way to use the QSELECT dialog with ARX and avoid calling the QSELECT command?

I am using AutoCAD 2008. I know that there is a transparent command (FILTER) but the program's owner prefers QSELECT.

Thanks in advance,
William Gonzales

[Anonymous]

William,

After you hide your dialog, you need to Enable the AutoCAD window. Then
when you re-show yours, you need to Disable the AutoCAD window. Here's a
snippet of my code where I do this very thing ...

ShowWindow( hDlgWnd, SW_HIDE );
EnableWindow( GetParent( hDlgWnd ), TRUE );
SetFocus( GetParent( hDlgWnd ));
nRet = acedGetDist( NULL, _T("Distance: "), &dHgt );
EnableWindow( GetParent( hDlgWnd ), FALSE );
ShowWindow( hDlgWnd, SW_SHOW );

hDlgWnd is my Dialog Window. Since it was created with AutoCAD as the
owner, GetParent( hDlgWnd ) will return the AutoCAD window.

Hope this helps,
Joe

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Hello everybody,
I have a dialog that works with selected objects and I have add a button
that hides the dialog and calls the QSELECT command ( using
'acedCommand()' ), the QSELECT dialog is showed but the problem appears when
I select the "Select objects" button on the Quick Select dialog box: the
QSELECT dialog is hidden but the command line never gets the focus, so the
dialogs are not shown again and AutoCAD becomes "dead".
How can I solve this problem? It seems that the focus must be placed in the
command line before calling 'acedCommand()', how can I do it? Also, is there
a way to use the QSELECT dialog with ARX and avoid calling the QSELECT
command?

I am using AutoCAD 2008. I know that there is a transparent command (FILTER)
but the program's owner prefers QSELECT.

Thanks in advance,
William Gonzales