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Changing the document window size with vb.net

Anonymous — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 20:33:41 GMT

I'm trying to change the active document window size with vb.net. This seems like it should be straightforward, but I'm having some trouble. Below is some code that I tried to use which I found on the AutoCAD DevBlog.. I thought I understood how this works, but I can't seem to import the correct references to make it work. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

  Dim doc As Document = Application.DocumentManager.MdiActiveDocument()

            Dim docWindow As Window = doc.Window

            Dim size As Size = docWindow.Size

            docWindow.WindowState = Window.State.Normal

            docWindow.Size = New Size(500, 500)

Re: Changing the document window size with vb.net

arcticad — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 21:19:09 GMT

Imports Autodesk.AutoCAD.ApplicationServices
Imports Autodesk.AutoCAD.Windows

and changed size to drawing,size and it worked fine. in 2010

What was the error?

Re: Changing the document window size with vb.net

fieldguy — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 22:00:33 GMT

This works in Map 3D 2011. References are attached.

<CommandMethod("testwindow")> _
    Public Sub testwindowsize()
        Dim doc As acapp.Document = acapp.Application.DocumentManager.MdiActiveDocument()
        Dim docWindow As Window = doc.Window
        Dim size As Drawing.Size = docWindow.Size
        docWindow.WindowState = Window.State.Normal
        docWindow.Size = New Drawing.Size(500, 500)
    End Sub

Re: Changing the document window size with vb.net

Anonymous — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 10:50:10 GMT

Thanks for the help, but it won't build with 2013.

I checked, and I have all of the references that fieldguy has. With acad 2013, I know a number of items have changed in .net. I've tried a number of combinations of imported namespaces, but I get a message stating that 'Type Size is not defined".

I can get this to work in earlier versions, but unfortunately, I need it to work in 2013.

Thanks

btm

Re: Changing the document window size with vb.net

DiningPhilosopher — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 18:47:21 GMT

There's a lot of changes in AutoCAD 2013 that break existing code.

See my response to your Swamp Post: