If you really have looked Acad VBA help, you could not missed
AcadUntility.GetPoint() (and all other GetXXX() methods), and for each of
the GetXXX() methods, VBA help provides a piece of example code. The sample
code for GetPoint() does exactly what you want: ask user to pick two points
and then draw a line. There is not form is required/relied on (however, if
your process logic need to use form beofre/after asking uer picking points,
you can have one, of course).
But the real issue, IMO, is that you automate Acad from a stand-alone exe.
Your user runs the exe, and they get prompted in Acad (so, you have to find
a reliable way to make the targeting Acad session ,and there could be more
than 1 session running, becoming active Window), so user has to turn his
attetion from your app to Acad; once the user picked the poins (or did other
things), you have to make your exe active Windows again, user has to turn
his eye back to your app. Form the point of view of usability, it is bad
application design.
If you have to automate app, like Acad, you should focus the user in your
app and make the automating really "automatic". If the process requires
focusing unser interaction in one app (Acad, in your case), you should use
AutoCAD to automate your app (you can make your VB6 app as an ActiveX EXE,
COM automate-able).
Do not really know what your app does, hard to say more. Just do not like
the idea of asking user to respond in Acad while automating Acad. Acad
itself is so complicated and most drafting commands reqires certain user
interaction. Acad provides so many ways to be programmed that the better
solution most likely should be done from Acad end, rather than from outside
app end when user interacting with Acad is required.
"sgrya1" wrote in message news:5852343@discussion.autodesk.com...
Re Q1.
Like to think so. Daily for a few years now.
Re Q2.
Looked at the VBA Samples but both rely on forms. I need an example of how
to ask a question in the command line and for VB (or VBA) to respond to
that question.
Even as simple as :
Do you want to draw a line N:
Then as a response :
Specify the start point:
Specify the end point:
There'd be a whole series of questions but that is a simple example of what
I'm after.
I've created a VB6.0 application that draws a bunch of things to AutoCAD but
I now just want to know how to communicate to and from VB6.0.
What's an ARX application. Is it VB oriented?
