Why can't I zoom or pan when an form is active?

[Anonymous]

When an macro of a Lisp is active I can zoom and pan in a drawing. I press Escape to quit.

Why can't I do that when a form is active in vba?

Is that only because Showmodal is on?

gr. Laszlo

[Alfred.NESWADBA · Accepted solution]

Hi,

>> Is that only because Showmodal is on?

Exactly that is the point.

If AutoCAD has a child-form with option "modal" opened, AutoCAD give this form the complete exclusive focus for mouse and keyboard. As long as this form is open you have no chance to control the editor-window by mouse or by keyboard (as long as you don't catch mouse-events and forward it to the editor-window ... would be a havy job to do 😉 ).

- alfred -