Is this a bug??

[Anonymous]

Hi all,

I am trying to load .dll application using windows registry.
the applicaion doesn't load till i luanch to autocad twice???!!!

The following is the registry:

\\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Autodesk\AutoCAD\R16.2\ACAD-4001:409\Applications\MyApp
DESCRIPTION REG_SZ Loads My Application
LOADCTRLS REG_DWORD 0x02
LOADER REG_SZ C:\MyApp.dll
MANAGED REG_DWORD 0x01

BTW, the application implements IExtensionApplication that means i am not invocing a command to load it.

the attached are the command line when i am lunching to autocad once and second.

Can anybody tells me what is the problem that leads me to lunch autocad twice to load the application??

Sorry for my bad english.

Noora

[Anonymous]

It Seems no solution for this problem??

[Anonymous]

I know where the problem is located 🙂

As I said that i am implementing IExtensionApplication in my application.

and to implement this class, i defined the following function as

public virtual void Initialize()
{
//
//My Code
//
AcadApp=(Autodesk.AutoCAD.Interop.AcadApplication)Marshal.GetActiveObject("AutoCAD.Application.16.2");
}

It seems that i can't lunch to autocad and autoload this application using windows registry while the initialize function has the mentioned statment.

When I removed that statment from Initialize function and located it in another place the autoloading works.

but still don't know why?

[cgay]

Nawara17,

You should never need to do what you are doing.

Change what you have to:
[code]
AcadApp = Autodesk.AutoCAD.ApplicationServices.Application
[/code]
This gives the Managed AutoCAD application object.

The reason it is failing your way is that you are trying to use COM to return an AutoCAD object, but that object is not fully initialized when you try to acquire it, resulting in a COM exception (time out) 'Failed to (create/acquire) object" or something like that.

If you need the COM AutoCAD application object, then use this :
[code]
AcadApp = (Autodesk.AutoCAD.Interop.AcadApplication) Autodesk.AutoCAD.ApplicationServices.Application.AcadApplication
[/code]

C