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Accessing & Editing Rollover tips.

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Message 1 of 15
balisteor
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Accessing & Editing Rollover tips.

I would like to know if anyone has been able to add information to rollover tips. I would like to send some strings to display along with the typical information that you see when you roll over a block object. Oh and don't forget the part where I want to do it with Lisp. 😄

Ideas or similar accomplishments would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.
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Message 2 of 15
Anonymous
in reply to: balisteor

Hi,

AFAIK those tips are not exposed in ActiveX API. I'm afraid that the only
way to do it, is using the .NET API or ARX.

HTH

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Humans are born with a wide horizon.
As time goes by, the horizon narrows and
narrows, until it becomes a point of view.


a écrit dans le message de news:
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I would like to know if anyone has been able to add information to rollover
tips. I would like to send some strings to display along with the typical
information that you see when you roll over a block object. Oh and don't
forget the part where I want to do it with Lisp. 😄

Ideas or similar accomplishments would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.
Message 3 of 15
balisteor
in reply to: balisteor

I knew it. : (

Thank you sir.
Message 4 of 15
Anonymous
in reply to: balisteor

You're welcome.

--
Humans are born with a wide horizon.
As time goes by, the horizon narrows and
narrows, until it becomes a point of view.


a écrit dans le message de news:
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I knew it. : (

Thank you sir.
Message 5 of 15
dgorsman
in reply to: balisteor

I think you *might* be able to do it within a (grread...) loop, using temporary MTEXT to display the information. Look for "Dynamic Leader" for examples.
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Message 6 of 15
Anonymous
in reply to: balisteor

Hi,

I think that the OP wants to edit the existing tips, adding some extra info
to the existing one, not to create his own tips.


--
Humans are born with a wide horizon.
As time goes by, the horizon narrows and
narrows, until it becomes a point of view.


a écrit dans le message de news:
6306571@discussion.autodesk.com...
I think you *might* be able to do it within a (grread...) loop, using
temporary MTEXT to display the information. Look for "Dynamic Leader" for
examples.
Message 7 of 15
balisteor
in reply to: balisteor

That is true that I would much rather add to the rollover tips they are much easier to read and look pretty 😄

But I am open to any and all ideas.
Message 8 of 15
balisteor
in reply to: balisteor

Dynamic Leader? I'm not finding anything.
Message 9 of 15
Anonymous
in reply to: balisteor

Then go for it 🙂

--
Humans are born with a wide horizon.
As time goes by, the horizon narrows and
narrows, until it becomes a point of view.


a écrit dans le message de news:
6306577@discussion.autodesk.com...
That is true that I would much rather add to the rollover tips they are much
easier to read and look pretty 😄

But I am open to any and all ideas.
Message 10 of 15
Anonymous
in reply to: balisteor

But unfortunately you won't be able to hover and to make it pop. Most
probably, if you will be able to create it using (grread..) and stuff, you
will have to select an entity in order to make it pop.


--
Humans are born with a wide horizon.
As time goes by, the horizon narrows and
narrows, until it becomes a point of view.


a écrit dans le message de news:
6306577@discussion.autodesk.com...
That is true that I would much rather add to the rollover tips they are much
easier to read and look pretty 😄

But I am open to any and all ideas.
Message 11 of 15
balisteor
in reply to: balisteor

Yeah, plus your having to add another command to fire the (grread) because you cant have an infinite (grread) the whole time you drawing. I don't think it will be worth the trouble but I'm thankful for the idea "dgorsman".

The best idea I have so far is just using the Doubleclick reactor, checking blockname and printing information to command line or status line.
But like I should have done in the past I need to learn ARX.
Message 12 of 15
Anonymous
in reply to: balisteor

Yes, it's up to you to decide what and how 🙂

Good luck.

--
Humans are born with a wide horizon.
As time goes by, the horizon narrows and
narrows, until it becomes a point of view.


a écrit dans le message de news:
6306613@discussion.autodesk.com...
Yeah, plus your having to add another command to fire the (grread) because
you cant have an infinite (grread) the whole time you drawing. I don't think
it will be worth the trouble but I'm thankful for the idea "dgorsman".

The best idea I have so far is just using the Doubleclick reactor, checking
blockname and printing information to command line or status line.
But like I should have done in the past I need to learn ARX.
Message 13 of 15
Anonymous
in reply to: balisteor

A better solution (in my biased opinion) is to forget about the built in
rollover tips and use my Periscope software
(<>) instead. Periscope
displays a tooltip that is more compact and useful out of the box, and it is
also fully customizable by writing extenders that can add any additional
information (in a simplified HTML format) you want. In Periscope 5 (due
soon) I added a sample .NET extender that shows how to customize the
displayed information via AutoLISP.
--
Owen Wengerd
President, ManuSoft <>
VP Americas, CADLock, Inc. <>


"balisteor" wrote in message news:6306486@discussion.autodesk.com...
> I would like to know if anyone has been able to add information to
> rollover tips. I would like to send some strings to display along with the
> typical information that you see when you roll over a block object. Oh and
> don't forget the part where I want to do it with Lisp. 😄
>
> Ideas or similar accomplishments would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
Message 14 of 15
Anonymous
in reply to: balisteor

There's no simple way to extend the built-in rollover tooltips with
LISP, but the code at the link below allows you to implement your
own tooltip that you can add whatever you like to:

http://www.caddzone.com/VLPointMonitor.zip

It's written in .NET (for AutoCAD 2007-2009), but was designed
to be usable from LISP.

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Supporting AutoCAD 2000 through 2010

http://www.acadxtabs.com

Email: string.Format("{0}@{1}.com", "tonyt", "caddzone");

wrote in message news:6306613@discussion.autodesk.com...
Yeah, plus your having to add another command to fire the (grread) because
you cant have an infinite (grread) the whole time you drawing. I don't think
it will be worth the trouble but I'm thankful for the idea "dgorsman".

The best idea I have so far is just using the Doubleclick reactor, checking
blockname and printing information to command line or status line.
But like I should have done in the past I need to learn ARX.
Message 15 of 15
balisteor
in reply to: balisteor

Hi tony,

I've never loaded a .Net application extension into autocad before so this problem may be that. OR it may be that it was made for AutoCAD2007-2009 and I am using 2010

The "POINTMONITOR" function is not being loaded and or defined.

When I netload the dll I don't get any errors or response, and just assume it has loaded.

I just want to know if you know of this particular issue or if you have an idea as to why it is happening.

Thank you.

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