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Using the "List" command at the command prompt

kzD1219 — Wed, 18 Jan 2017 20:01:49 GMT

Hopefully I can explain this.

A coworker of mine was using the 'list' command to get information about a line. A window will pop up as usual, but on the command prompt line instead of is showing the last lines of information on the window, it asks him to hit enter to get the information.

I have attached and image of what my list routine does at the command line. Pop up window pops up as normal and the last 3 lines of the window show up on my command line. This is the way the coworker wants it to work. (shown in red)

However right now the pop up window will open, but on the command line the first couple lines then asking the press enter. How can I revert to show the last few lines of information without having the hit enter to get there??

Re: Using the "List" command at the command prompt

GrantsPirate — Wed, 18 Jan 2017 20:13:02 GMT

Open the Text Window (F2) and stretch that window taller than it is now. Try at the command line. If that doesn't work stretch the window taller still.

Re: Using the "List" command at the command prompt

john.vellek — Wed, 18 Jan 2017 20:28:15 GMT

Hi @kzD1219,

Here is a nice reference page I found on how to use the command line. I hope this helps.

F2 is your friend. It will bring up the text window!

Re: Using the "List" command at the command prompt

kzD1219 — Wed, 18 Jan 2017 20:26:04 GMT

By stretching the text window taller, it still makes my coworker have to hit enter on the command line itself to display the information at the bottom of the list window. So that isn't quite it.

And I have read through that website reference and yes we can stretch the command line window all day, but that still doesn't help when he wants to keep the command line from interfering from the rest of the drawing.

So I don't want to change the version that you see in the image. In coworkers version on his computer, instead of showing the very last line "delta x = 73.45801..." it shows "Line Layer: "boundary-final..." and then on the command line prompts to hit enter to continue to get the next lines of information. So what I saw is that he had to hit enter 2 times to get the the "delta x = ..." line information. So somewhere must be a setting that will immediately go to the last line of the list on the command line and not the first.

Hopefully I didn't confuse you even more.

Re: Using the "List" command at the command prompt

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Jan 2017 20:34:47 GMT

QAFLAGS = 2

maybe??

Re: Using the "List" command at the command prompt

GrantsPirate — Wed, 18 Jan 2017 20:41:30 GMT

I am talking about the Text Window that pops up when you use F2 which I mentioned in my first post. Don't change the command line window, just the text window.

Re: Using the "List" command at the command prompt

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Jan 2017 23:29:07 GMT

Doesn't matter how big the text window is, many commands like LIST and -LAYER will throw a "pause" "Press ENTER to continue:" every 40 lines or so (full screen) unless you set QAFLAGS to 2.

Re: Using the "List" command at the command prompt

GrantsPirate — Wed, 18 Jan 2017 23:52:37 GMT

The OP asked about a line. A line will use about 10 lines in the list display, so making the text window taller does work, or at least it works here. I can make it ask for the enter every time with it reduced in size. Stretch it and it won't ask for the enter to continue. So the OP has two options to choose from.

Re: Using the "List" command at the command prompt

john.vellek — Thu, 19 Jan 2017 18:43:09 GMT

Hi @kzD1219,

I am checking back to see if my post or others helped you with your problem.
Please add a post with how you decide to proceed and your results so other Community members may benefit.

Re: Using the "List" command at the command prompt

pendean — Thu, 19 Jan 2017 18:52:15 GMT

What you want to do is not an option: info is presented from the top, not the bottom, the "press enter to continue" prompt cannot be changed or eliminated.

>>>...I have attached and image of what my list routine does at the command line...<<<
>>>...This is the way the coworker wants it to work...<<<
If your lisp works for you, why not share it with your coworker?
Or are you saying your lisp fails for your cowroker only? If that's the case, why not post your LISP code for everyone to examine it.

Re: Using the "List" command at the command prompt

whitney_jeff — Thu, 19 Jan 2017 18:55:07 GMT

qaflags = 2 does work, just tried it.

@GrantsPirate - stretching the text screen window works too - but I can see that if there is very much info in the list it would be impractical to stretch the textscr.

And on my system, LIST opens the textscr as well as displaying the info on the command line (command line is 5 lines high + command).

Re: Using the "List" command at the command prompt

kzD1219 — Thu, 19 Jan 2017 18:59:45 GMT

Got it to work with the stretched text pop up window.

But there was more going on with it than I thought. When coworker used list command there was no pop up window, but it look like the command line expanded upwards.

Once he grabbed the command line to expand it even taller, you could see the list pop up window overlapping the command line.

So, we pulled the pop up window off to the side, expanded it taller, then closed the window. When list was run again, the information on the command line completed without hitting enter.

Thanks for all the help!

Re: Using the "List" command at the command prompt

agorodetsk — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 17:09:59 GMT

That works

Re: Using the "List" command at the command prompt

Anonymous — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 16:07:39 GMT

FYI

From: https://www.manusoft.com/resources/acadexposed/sysvars.html

QAFLAGS

bitcode 0 - 32767*R11

bit 0 (1) : ^C in menu macro cancels grips (acts like keyboard <Esc>).
bit 1 (2) : no pause during text screen listings.
bit 2 (4) : no "alert" dialogs (text display instead).
bit 7 (128) : accepts "screen picks" (point lists) via (command) function.
*Note that this was an integer with range -32768 - 32767 in R11, then it changed to 0 - 32767 in R12.

Re: Using the "List" command at the command prompt

Anonymous — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 03:36:34 GMT

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