Working with Layouts

[JeffWright5789]

Hello Forum Users and thanks in advance for your replys.

Would like to "step thru" the layouts in the order shown on the screen and insert a block with an attribute at a predefined location on each layout. I believe using the ordinal position is not the answer because I believe that the ordinal position seems to report the order in which the  layout was created.

How can I access the order the item (layout) is displayed on the screen?   A short vba or lisp snippet to get started would be great.  I believe I can get it from there.

[Ed.Jobe]

VBA doesn't expose the information about the order that tabs appear on the dwg status bar. All you can do is iterate the Layouts collection. Still, I don't see why you would need that if you are just inserting a block on each. Would checking the layout's Name as you iterate help?

[JeffWright5789]

The attribute of the block is going to be incremented by some index number, say 5 for each different layout and then inserted into each sheet, similar to numbering the sheets. As a whole different approach, I suppose if I named / coded the name of the layouts with that index as part of the tab name I could parse it out... the problem would arise if I move or reorder the layout tabs... is surprises me the layout display position is exposed...

[Ed.Jobe]

Pardon me. I never noticed that property before. However, that is a property of the Layout, so you can't iterate on the tab number. You would have to iterate the Layouts collection to get a layout and then decide what to do based on the TabOrder. Same idea as I mentioned before, just on a different property.

Model tab is fixed at 0, i.e. you can't move its position. You can use that to eliminate processing the model tab with (Layout.TabOrder >0)