Adding a date stamp to deter.vlx

[CraigPalmer]

I am a user, but unfortunately not a creator, of lisp routines. I'd like to be able to use the deter routine, but add a function to it whereby a date stamp (similar, I imagine, to a plot stamp but showing the date that the tool was used) would be added at a certain location (bottom right of the display, or at specific coordinates).
Firstly, is this possible? Secondly, would anyone be willing to give me an idea of how I would achieve this? Thanks!

Edited by: CraigPalmer on Mar 5, 2010 7:51 AM Edited by: CraigPalmer on Mar 5, 2010 7:51 AM

[Anonymous]

Hi,

You can not modify a VLX file, it is compiled. The reason the author
compiled it was to protect the contents. You have to contact the author.

HTH

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I am a user, but unfortunately not a creator, of lisp routines. I'd like to
be able to use the deter routine, but add a function to it whereby a date
stamp (similar, I imagine, to a plot stamp but showing the date that the
tool was used) would be added at a certain location (bottom right of the
display, or at specific coordinates).
Firstly, is this possible? Secondly, would anyone be willing to give me an
idea of how I would achieve this? Thanks!

Edited by: CraigPalmer on Mar 5, 2010 7:51 AM

Edited by: CraigPalmer on Mar 5, 2010 7:51 AM

[CraigPalmer]

I see - thanks for the advice. I'll try to track down the author. In the meantime, is there a LISP routine similar to Deter which could be modified?

[Anonymous]

I don't know, but I think that a search on the web could lead to something.

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I see - thanks for the advice. I'll try to track down the author. In the
meantime, is there a LISP routine similar to Deter which could be modified?

[Anonymous]

But what date do you want to stamp ? What tool are you talking about ? Maybe
the fields in AutoCAD could help you with this, but you should be a little
more specific.

You can have the current date, the document creation date, the last save
date and the printing date.

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I see - thanks for the advice. I'll try to track down the author. In the
meantime, is there a LISP routine similar to Deter which could be modified?

[Anonymous]

On 3/5/2010 9:52 AM, CraigPalmer wrote:

> like to be able to use the deter routine, but add a function to it
> whereby a date stamp ...

Why not simply add an annotation object to the drawing before you deter?

Terry
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[CraigPalmer]

I'd want to display the current date, and then run Deter.
I've looked at a couple of old LSPs, but I think I've found a useful macro to use for a date stamp. It would have been useful to be able to run both that and Deter together, but this is better than nothing.

[CraigPalmer]

Good point, and this is/was my initial plan. Running a date stamp tool would take just as long as adding text, but a colleague had asked me if it was possible to include the extra feature.
Thanks for deter, by the way!