topic Re: Assign a task to a button in AutoCAD Forum

Assign a task to a button

Anonymous — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 13:52:10 GMT

Hello, Forum,

I have managed to create a button and even put it among the other buttons on my Autocad, but still I cannot assign a task to it. The button is easy to create:

type "cui"->

create new command->

edit to draw the icon->

save->

put the

ok->

right click on the buttons->

customize->

find your button->

drag and drop it

How can I assign an activity to my newly created button? If it is needed to mention, I want to make a button that generates a table, so this is the task, that I want to assign to this button.

Best regards!

Re: Assign a task to a button

Ed__Jobe — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 14:20:09 GMT

In the CUI, down below where you edited your button, there is a Macro property. This is the macro for the TABLE command: "^C^C_table ". "^C" performs a {Cancel} and the space at the end performs and {Enter}.

Re: Assign a task to a button

Kent1Cooper — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 15:47:18 GMT

If it's a Tool Palette button, you can just right-click on the button itself, and pick Properties, where there's a line for macro code.

Re: Assign a task to a button

Anonymous — Fri, 01 Sep 2017 11:56:46 GMT

@Ed__Jobe @Kent1Cooper you for your effort to resolve my issue. Your solutions are really helpful, but I didn't express my problem accurately enough. I want to create a specific table, with pre-given cells, rows, and values of the cell.

Re: Assign a task to a button

pendean — Fri, 01 Sep 2017 12:59:36 GMT

>>>...I want to create a specific table, with pre-given cells, rows, and values of the cell....<<<
Create the table.
Turn it into a block with BLOCK command, or WBLOCK to an external block.
Then use INSERT command (followed by EXPLODE) to use in in other files.

Re: Assign a task to a button

gotphish001 — Fri, 01 Sep 2017 15:33:50 GMT

Could you use the manage>record to do all the steps for the table settings to set the table up and then make that macro the button?

Edit: Didn't see dean's post until after I posted. You could definitely record a macro that inserted the table block then exploded it. Then you could just set it up so you type the name of the table and it's inserted.

Re: Assign a task to a button

Anonymous — Tue, 05 Sep 2017 13:57:33 GMT

@gotphish001 and @pendean, thank you for your efforts to answer my question. It is what you suggested and additionally I made some extra stuff to solve my problem. Kudoed and accepted as a solution. The rest of my solution is to add in the macro section:

*^C^C_-insert;BlockName;\;;\

If exploding it is afterwards needed (like in my case, but I realized it after I made the button in the above manner), there is the code that explodes the inserted block, in my case a pre-determined table:

^C^C^P(setvar"ATTREQ" 0) (command "_.INSERT" "*drawing" pause 1.0 0.0)(setvar "ATTREQ" 1)

Source for the last one:

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/visual-lisp-autolisp-and-general/exploding-blocks-on-insert/m-p/6057810/highlight/true#M339319