Running VBA Macro with Parameter from Autocad Command line

[Anonymous]

How do you run a vba macro using a variable as a command line item?
I would expect it would be something like this, but it does not work.

-vbarun SiteMenu.SetSiteMenu 5

Where SiteMenu.SetSiteMenu is the macro and 5 is the variable that I want to
pass.

The sub code looks like

Sub SetSiteMenu(intMenu as Integer)

Exit

[Anonymous]

I don't think you can run a macro that takes parameters from the command line.

[Anonymous]

I found this a while ago in the Autodesk AutoCAD Knowledge base:

No, it is not possible to pass parameters from the program directly into a
VBA macro. However, you can use the GetString function in VBA and the
AutoLISP® (command) function to pass data. This example shows how to pass
data using VBA and AutoLISP to a VBA macro:

In the MODULE:


Public Param1, Param2 As StringSub MyMacro()Param1 =
ThisDrawing.Utility.GetString(False) Param2 =
ThisDrawing.Utility.GetString(False) 'Enter your code hereEnd
SubThen call the VBA macro as:
(command "-VBARUN" " MyMacro " "Argument1"
"Argument2")--------------------------------I have used this and it works
very well.Hope it helps.

[Anonymous]

Dave

You can't run a macro that takes parameters from the command line.

For single var's use the system var's USERx1-5, for complex informations
use dictionaries to exchange values between vba macros and menu-/lisp.

Cheers
--
Juerg Menzi
MENZI ENGINEERING GmbH, Switzerland
http://www.menziengineering.ch

[Anonymous]

P.S.
I have also used used USERS1 - USERS5 to hold strings so that VBA can pick
them up.
Ken

"Dave Mikolaitis" wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> How do you run a vba macro using a variable as a command line item?
> I would expect it would be something like this, but it does not work.
>
> -vbarun SiteMenu.SetSiteMenu 5
>
> Where SiteMenu.SetSiteMenu is the macro and 5 is the variable that I want
to
> pass.
>
> The sub code looks like
>
> Sub SetSiteMenu(intMenu as Integer)
>
> Exit
>
>
>

[Anonymous]

The getstring method will work, but you can also use lisp setq to store the
values in lisp variables and then recover them in VB/VBA using the Vlax class. I
use this sometimes to 'park' values in lisp when my VB program will not always
know which form will create and/or retrieve the data. Saves declaring a global
variable for an 'on the fly' value.

Tom

Dave Mikolaitis wrote:

> How do you run a vba macro using a variable as a command line item?
> I would expect it would be something like this, but it does not work.
>
> -vbarun SiteMenu.SetSiteMenu 5
>
> Where SiteMenu.SetSiteMenu is the macro and 5 is the variable that I want to
> pass.
>
> The sub code looks like
>
> Sub SetSiteMenu(intMenu as Integer)
>
> Exit