Better menu macro for toggle groups?
I already do, but dumb acad does not expand it enough to see all I want:
Besides, I don't want my users to be looking away from the command line to the middle of the screen.
Wish I could control that layout tab blank area width, I'd do what you said, but still want it echoed on command line.
Of course, Bricscad does not suffer from the issue, though it does use a full row for layout tabs:
Those real words for settings is something I long to get back in acad, having to support 100 people and glance at their screen to see what is on or off.
@Anonymous wrote:
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'_setvar;pickstyle;$M=$(if,$(eq,$(getvar,pickstyle),0),1,$(if,$(eq,$(getvar,pickstyle),1),0,$(if,$(eq,$(getvar,pickstyle),2),3,2)))
I want it to say "Groups On" or "Groups Off" as I hit ctrl-H or whatever I assign that command to (ctrl-A for me!).
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I'm not well-enough versed in Diesel, but if I'm reading that right, and if you can do this with AutoLisp, there's a much more concise way, avoiding all those nested (if) functions evaluating for four possible current values. It can toggle directly between Pickstyle value pairs of either 0 and 1 or 2 and 3, without caring what the specific current value is, i.e. without having to distinguish whether or not Associative-Hatch selection is on [whether or not the 2 bit is part of the value]:
(setvar 'pickstyle (boole 6 1 (getvar 'pickstyle)))
[I don't know whether Diesel can use boolean operations, but if so, you should be able to make an equivalent Diesel function.]
If the 1 bit is part of the value, the (boole 6) operation removes it, but if not, it adds it, i.e. 0 becomes 1, 1 become 0, 2 becomes 3, 3 becomes 2. It leaves the Associative-Hatch selection part [0 or 2] as it is.
Then you can notify the User more concisely, too, based not on the specific value, but on simply whether the value is even [Group selection off] or odd [on]:
(prompt (strcat "\nGroups " (if (= (rem (getvar 'pickstyle) 2) 1) "On" "Off")))
@Anonymous wrote:
....(setvar "pickstyle" (- 1 (getvar "pickstyle")))....
That's fine if you can be sure the Associative-Hatch selection part is never active, that is, that the PICKSTYLE value is always and only either 0 or 1. If Associate-Hatch selection is on, PICKSTYLE will be 2 or 3, and that code will set it to -1 or -2, which AutoCAD won't accept. [Oddly, I'm finding it doesn't give me any invalidity message, and it returns those negative numbers, but they are rejected without comment -- the PICKSTYLE value is not changed.] The boolean approach avoids that possibility.
^P(prompt (strcat "\nGroups " (if (= (rem (setvar 'pickstyle (boole 6 1 (getvar 'pickstyle))) 2) 1) "On" "Off"))) (princ)
Two whole characters shorter:
^P(prompt (strcat "\nGroups " (nth (rem (setvar 'pickstyle (boole 6 1 (getvar 'pickstyle))) 2) '("Off" "On")))) (princ)
