Mtext Macro with Predetermined text
@pendean is close.... I did test, and you need the hyphen prefix.
^C^C_.-mtext;\R;\W;20;DRIVE;;
@pendean wrote:
.... Why post in the LISP forum if you don't want LISP?....
[This is not "the LISP forum" -- see the Forum title. Command macros certainly fall within the category of "General Customization," as do Hatch Patterns, Linetypes, etc.]
@DGCSCAD wrote:
.... Copy/pasting exactly what was posted will yield the correct result.
... as an AutoLisp function, but not as a command macro. I'm not sure about the part that you colored red, but I get the rest, and it stops at the same place, because a backslash in a command macro is a pause for User input only. It doesn't care whether it's within a double-quoted text string, it doesn't function as a special-character trigger as it does in AutoLisp, and a command macro doesn't run AutoLisp functions [as Script can, at least some of them].
@DGCSCAD wrote:.It's all contained within parenthesis, so it gets treated as a LISP function. I believe the intent was to use it in that manner, which if copied/pasted into a tools' command line, will work as it was penned.
That's exactly what I did. I copied @Sea-Haven 's code line in Message 6, and put it into the command macro content line in a Tool Palette button. It did not work, but stopped at the first backslash, as already described. Macros can contain AutoLisp functions [I have some using (setvar), for example], but I think do not recognize the backslash in the way AutoLisp uses it, but only as a pause for User input. I haven't found a way in a command macro to get Mtext content to move down to a new line.
@Sea-Haven wrote:
Ok can see a few problems you have not defined the starting point for the MText should be before the "W"....
It is. The first backslash is the pause for the User to pick the starting point.
WAIT! A semi-colon [= Enter] is, in fact, the way to move down a line, but you can't do two in a row to get the empty line between your first two lines of content, because two Enters in a row ends the command. But if you're willing to have a space as the empty line, this worked for me to make the arrangement in Message 5:
_.-Mtext \w 200 Materialisatie:; ;wit, Kronospan U566 SM;oranje, Unilin 0U272/BST Tiger;hout, Kronospan K004 PW;;
@gbG5A5W wrote:
..... In a Mtext, I can enter as much as I want, as far as I know?
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Manually, you can, but not within a command macro. You can verify it easily enough -- try the macro content I posted but without the space between those two semicolons. That's what I tried first, and the result is what made me say earlier that I hadn't found a way to move to a new line in macro-generated Mtext. But later I found that a semicolon does work for that, but it needs some content, even if only a space, for each line.
