For DWG files, we will load recursively. For DXF we only load sequentially.
For DWG, if you try to open an object that hasn't yet been read in, the
underlying open code will read that object in.
I don't know of any way to tell if an object is not yet read in.
"Aleksey Karyakin" wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> A custom entity has to perform its state computations based on other
objects
> in the drawing. Everything works until a drawing is saved and loaded
again.
> Then I try to open related objects and since they are not in a database
yet,
> things get worse.
>
> Stepping in the debugger over the acdbOpenObject, the execution suddenly
> jumps at a breakpoint in some other dwgInFields. Since full call stack is
> missing from DBX DLLs, I cant say that for sure, but no exceptions have
> raised, it seems to be true. So does it mean that DBX runtime tries to
load
> recursively the object being opened? Is this a documented behavior one can
> rely on?
>
> Since objects are loaded one-by-one, in dwgInFields I would like to
process
> only the objects already have been loaded before the current object. I
would
> expect to receive some error code trying to open not-yet-loaded object.
>
> Is that scenario possible in AutoCAD ?
>
> Regards,
> Aleksey Karyakin
>
>
