topic Re: AutoLISP controlling dialog boxes in AutoCAD Forum

AutoLISP controlling dialog boxes

Anonymous — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 05:20:15 GMT

I'm studying AutoLISP and I see that AutoLISP can control dialog boxes written as DCL files. Can AutoLISP control the normal AutoCAD dialog boxes or just custom dialog boxes written in DCL?

Re: AutoLISP controlling dialog boxes

M_Hensley — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 11:18:54 GMT

Autolisp cannot control any of AutoCAD's built-in dialog boxes. You have to use only command line versions of AutoCAD commands and make your own dialog boxes. I like to use the free Doslib add-on from McNeel that has a lot of pre-made dialog boxes that you can control with lisp.

Re: AutoLISP controlling dialog boxes

Kent1Cooper — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 13:21:13 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:

.... Can AutoLISP control the normal AutoCAD dialog boxes or just custom dialog boxes written in DCL?

It depends a little on what you mean by "control." It can't alter their content, as far as I know. When using a command that normally has a dialog box in a (command) function, the command-line version [without the dialog box] is normally used. If you're just talking about controlling whether you get the dialog box with a command invoked in AutoLisp, you can get it [in most cases -- there may be exceptions] by preceding the (command) function with (initdia), which means "initiate the dialog box for the immediately-following command."