Set File Location from a Shared Dropbox Folder

[dvanerem]

I would like to put our company programming on a Dropbox folder.  I have not fully tested everything out yet, like locations of lisp files and image name...

Has anyone done this with success? One thing I am struggling with is an absolute path in my lisp file:

(setq FL:FLAYTAB "C:\\Users\\dvanerem\\Dropbox\\Canova and Stone\\Customizations\\Autodesk AutoCAD 2010\\Programming\\OENV-RCP.TAB")(FL:LoadTable)

I am confused how this would work with other users? Or does AutoCAD automatically correct for this? 

Any help would be really nice.

Thanks,

[balisteor]

Sorry but i don't quite understand your question, you have a username in there, so i assume its not the same folder but rather a folder on a server for each user? also you are also using c: as drive, is it supposed to be a server path or local?

If it's to depend on the user you can use something like this.

(strcat "C:\\Users\\" (getvar 'loginname) "\\Dropbox\\Canova and Stone\\Customizations\\Autodesk AutoCAD 2010\\Programming\\OENV-RCP.TAB")

[pbejse]

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@dvanerem wrote:

I would like to put our company programming on a Dropbox folder.  I have not fully tested everything out yet, like locations of lisp files and image name...

Has anyone done this with success? One thing I am struggling with is an absolute path in my lisp file:

(setq FL:FLAYTAB "C:\\Users\\dvanerem\\Dropbox\\Canova and Stone\\Customizations\\Autodesk AutoCAD 2010\\Programming\\OENV-RCP.TAB")(FL:LoadTable)

I am confused how this would work with other users? Or does AutoCAD automatically correct for this? 

Any help would be really nice.

Thanks,

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Almost always  the problem  is the mapped network drive letter vaies from one computer to another.

So a sub to retrive the current drive letter:

(defun NetDrive  (/ WscrptO Driveletter NDrive)
      (setq WscrptO     (vlax-create-object "WScript.Network")
            Driveletter (vlax-invoke WscrptO 'EnumNetworkDrives)
            )
      (setq NDrive (vla-Item Driveletter 0))
      (vlax-release-object WscrptO)
      NDrive)

 and the users loginname (getvar 'loginname) as suggested by balisteor

(setq FL:FLAYTAB (strcat (NetDrive)
            "\\\\Users\\" (getvar 'loginname)
            "\\Dropbox\\Canova and Stone\\Customizations\\Autodesk AutoCAD 2010\\Programming\\OENV-RCP.TAB"))

 will give you the correct path

You can also use the stations computer name

(getenv "ComputerName")

or even users logon name

(getenv "UserName")

HTH