Hi all.
For several weeks now, I've been looking for a way to apply a drop down menu, or a combo box menu to a text block. At first I looked in the basic AutoCAD 2013/14/15/16 forum, then in the Lisp forum (and learned fairly quickly that it's not possible using the basic tools in Lisp, or in ACAD), and this morning, I backed out of the lisp forum, and saw this forum.
In looking through this VB forum, doing some searches, and looking through the help directory on VB/VBA/VB.Net, my curiosity--- and hope for the drop down, or combobox menu has been re-enlivened.
So, is it possible to apply a VB-based combobox, or drop down menu to a text block, in AutoCAD? We're using 2016.
We did set up an Excel worksheet with a combo box, using the name mgr, etc..., and then tried inserting it into a dwg file. It just left the last shown state of the excel file as the default inserted state. We were not able to change that excel file's state, in the dwg file.
I am still examining doing a dynamic block, but this means several variations, and combinations of visibility states, which is woefully tedious to set up, as we have a multitude of different combinations.
The basic block we presently have, and would be modifying with drop down menus.
THe Excel version.
The two excel images are the goal, for a text block within a text block on a drawing.
Thank you for your time, and responses.
Best.