Need to jump over a few hurdles here:
1. As you stated you would have to change the lisp code from:
(if (< (setq dcl_id (load_dialog (getfileET "xlist.dcl"))) 0)
To this (you need double back slashes for lisp to recognize):
(if (< (setq dcl_id (load_dialog "W:\\_RESOURCE\\_CAD\\LISP\\xlist.dcl")) 0)
2. The dcl would have to change for each of the following lines from:
: text {
key = "sLayer";
width = 31;
}
To a larger number like this (double forward slashes comments out the line):
: text {
key = "sLayer";
// width = 31;
width = 81;
}
3. The Express folder contains a lisp file acetauto.lsp that automatically loads XLIST.lsp that looks like this:
(acet-autoload2 '("Xlist" "xlist" nil "xlist" 2))
(acet-autoload2 '("Xlist" "-xlist" nil "xlist" 2))
Since users don't have the rights to modify this lisp file either, then one way to load yours first is to include yours in the APPLOAD>Startup Suite. But that means you'll have to go to each computer open AutoCAD and run the APPLOAD command. So to avoid this another method is to create an acad.lsp file or add to an existing acad.lsp which AutoCAD would load at startup and save this file to a Trusted Folder location like W:\_RESOURCE\_CAD\LISP which AutoCAD would automatically load each time it starts.
The contents would simply be the following lines of code:
(load"W:\\_RESOURCE\\_CAD\\LISP\\xlist.lsp")
Then instead of the Express Tools version loading then your modified XLIST.lsp will be loaded to run.
