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Is there a way to define commands in batches?

1039574776 — Sat, 16 Jul 2022 11:19:33 GMT

Hello everyone, I have an amazing idea🤣. Is it possible to define commands in batches based on a list of block names. Is this possible? Like the code example below, I know, it doesn't work correctly, so would like to try to get help to implement this idea, thanks in advance.

[CommandMethod("SetCommands")] public static void SetCommands() { List<string> commandList = new List<string>() { "CMD1", "CMD2", "CMD3", "CMD4", "CMD5", "CMD6" }; CommandMethods(commandList); }

public static void CommandMethods(List<string> commandList) { foreach (string globalName in commandList) { [CommandMethod(globalName)] CreateInsertBlockrefence(globalName); } } public static ObjectId CreateInsertBlockrefence(string blockName) { Document acDoc = Autodesk.AutoCAD.ApplicationServices.Application.DocumentManager.MdiActiveDocument; Database acCurDb = acDoc.Database; Editor ed=acDoc.Editor; Point3d postion = ed.GetPoint("\nSelect a point:").Value; using (Transaction acTrans = acCurDb.TransactionManager.StartTransaction()) { BlockTable acBlkTbl; acBlkTbl = acTrans.GetObject(acCurDb.BlockTableId, OpenMode.ForRead) as BlockTable; if (!acBlkTbl.Has(blockName)) return ObjectId.Null; BlockTableRecord acBlkTblRec; acBlkTblRec = acTrans.GetObject(acCurDb.CurrentSpaceId, OpenMode.ForWrite) as BlockTableRecord; BlockReference acBlk; ObjectId btrId = acBlkTbl[blockName]; BlockTableRecord record = btrId.GetObject(OpenMode.ForRead) as BlockTableRecord; acBlk = new BlockReference(postion, acBlkTbl[blockName]); acBlkTblRec.AppendEntity(acBlk); acCurDb.TransactionManager.AddNewlyCreatedDBObject(acBlk, true); acTrans.Commit(); return acBlk.ObjectId; } }

Re: Is there a way to define commands in batches?

norman.yuan — Sat, 16 Jul 2022 11:59:00 GMT

One surely can "define" command dynamically with code with this method:

Autodesk.AutoCAD.Internal.Utils.AddCommand()

in acmgd.dll

HTH

Re: Is there a way to define commands in batches?

1039574776 — Sun, 17 Jul 2022 02:34:57 GMT

Thanks for your reply, the Autodesk.AutoCAD.Internal.Utils.AddCommand() method is public static void AddCommand(string cmdGroupName, string cmdGlobalName, string cmdLocalName, CommandFlags cmdFlags, CommandCallback func), the fifth parameter method of the method is just a delegate that takes no arguments and returns void.

public delegate void CommandCallback();

so that the command name I define is still not associated with the block name. Is there any other way to achieve this? Meanwhile I'm trying to find other solutions.

Re: Is there a way to define commands in batches?

kerry_w_brown — Sun, 17 Jul 2022 02:48:30 GMT

Does this help ?

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/net/utils-addcommand-function-with-params/td-p/4758899

Regards,

Kerry

Re: Is there a way to define commands in batches?

1039574776 — Sun, 17 Jul 2022 05:20:01 GMT

Thanks also, I looked up this link and it wasn't what I was looking for. I want to pass parameters into the method, so that the command name is consistent with the block name, that is, the command name is the block name, so that commands are defined in batches according to all block names.

Re: Is there a way to define commands in batches?

essam-salah — Sun, 17 Jul 2022 09:43:56 GMT

@1039574776

have you tried to use Autodesk.AutoCAD.Internal.Utils.GetLastCommandLines() ?

Re: Is there a way to define commands in batches?

1039574776 — Sun, 17 Jul 2022 11:44:28 GMT

@essam-salah @norman.yuan Thanks a lot, after debugging ，combined with Autodesk.AutoCAD.Internal.Utils.AddCommand() and Autodesk.AutoCAD.Internal.Utils.GetLastCommandLines(), exactly what I expected, cheers! This link has its usage example code, hope it will be more helpful to others who need it.

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/net/catching-command-window-output-with-net-api/m-p/9023171

Re: Is there a way to define commands in batches?

essam-salah — Sun, 17 Jul 2022 12:16:06 GMT

@1039574776 wrote:
@essam-salah @norman.yuan Thanks a lot, after debugging ，combined with Autodesk.AutoCAD.Internal.Utils.AddCommand() and Autodesk.AutoCAD.Internal.Utils.GetLastCommandLines(), exactly what I expected, cheers! ..

glad you your problem solved.