Command Line not displaying what the Text Window displays

[EricStiles]

I've written a lisp program that I've used for years.  I know the prompts by heart and don't read them, so I'm not sure when this happened, but I just noticed that the prompt was missing characters.  I spent some time trying to track down why some of the characters were missing when I noticed that the characters show up in the Text Window vs the command prompt area.

In my lisp program, it will ask the user for some text with a default and some other options.  It should look something like this and does if you hit the F2 key and look at it in the Text Window:

[.]=none, [/]=settings, Text? <default text>:

But in the command line area it looks like this:

[.]=none, =settings, Text? <default text>:

Notice that the settings button is not being displayed.
I've also attached a screen shot.  This is strange, has anyone else seen this?

I'm using Autocad Civil 3D 2013

Eric

[BeKirra]

Is your AutoCAD up-to-date?

Is your AutoCAD font missing for the command line window or changed for some reason?

[hmsilva · Accepted solution]

Hi Eric,

with the introduction of dynamic input, we can just pick a command's option from the command line instead of typing a letter in the option.
The '[ ]' characters in a prompt, defines a dynamic prompt.

in your prompt you are using two sets of '[ ]', AutoCAD interprets the firt one as dynamic options, and disregard the second one, inside the function...

(progn
  (initget "Yes No")
  (setq x (getkword "Are you seeing the difference in the prompt? (Yes or No) "))
)

(progn
  (initget "Yes No")
  (setq x (getkword "Are you seeing the difference in the prompt? [Yes / No] "))
)

Second problem, the '/' character in a prompt option, It is interpreted as a 'separator' for a new option, and that I know, there is no way to AutoCAD interpret the '/' as a text character in a dynamic prompt...

One option to you, will be to change the '[ ]' characters to '( )'.

(progn
  (initget ". / Text?")
  (setq x (getkword "Are you seeing the difference in the prompt? (.)=none, (/)=settings, Text? <default text>:"))
)

Sorry, I have tried to find documentation about this subject to share...unsuccessfully...

Hope this helps,
Henrique

[EricStiles]

Thank you, I was not aware of this Dynamic Input on the command line.  Now that I know about that, that could be usefull.  I can change my code from the brackets to the parenthesis and that should look ok. 

I can't seem to find any documentation either.  But I guess it's just what you said and is almost too simple.  Example type in: [YOU/ME] and YOU or ME become two options on your command line.  Very simple. 

Anyway, thanks

[hmsilva]

You're welcome, Eric!
Glad I could help

Henrique