initget and getpoint

[Anonymous]

I need help with initget and getpoint If have been using - (initget 128 "U") (setq Point (getpoint (last List_Points) "\nPick NEXT point on line or [U]=Undo ? ")) This works fine if user - picks a point types a 'U' or uses .xyz point filters However, I can't type a distance and use cursor direction to return a point. It returns the distance as text. How can I set initget to allow input of distance?

[Kent1Cooper · Accepted solution]

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@Anonymous wrote:
I need help with initget and getpoint If have been using - (initget 128 "U") (setq Point (getpoint (last List_Points) "\nPick NEXT point on line or [U]=Undo ? ")) This works fine if user - picks a point types a 'U' or uses .xyz point filters However, I can't type a distance and use cursor direction to return a point. It returns the distance as text. How can I set initget to allow input of distance?

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Try taking the 128 out of the (initget) function.  The "U" option will still be allowed [since it's specified, it's not considered "arbitrary" input that the 128 allows], but other typed input then won't be accepted as "arbitrary" input, so it will be read as a distance in the direction of the cursor from the reference point -- at least it seems to do that in limited testing in isolation, so I hope it will in the larger context of what you're doing.

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Wow...that was easy. I miss read the help and thought the bits were also required. Thanks!

[carloschantre123]

Excellent

It can be written

(Initget "U Undo")