Use function from other LISP file doesn't work

[martin.mardikas]

Hi!

I'm using a custom lisp command(x). This command uses function, which is located in other .lsp file(y). So it can be used in multiple commands.

So I loaded this y file to startup suite content  and also added to support file search path. 

But it keeps giving me error, that it doesn't find that function

I use ACAD2019

[ВeekeeCZ · Accepted solution]

Placing the lsp to the start-up suite is enough to be loaded.

The thing is, how do you call it.

If the lisp func is (defun c:Myfunc () ...), then you call it by Myfunc from AutoCAD command line or (c:myfunc) from another lisp file.

It the function is without c:... as (defun MyFunc () ...) then call it by (MyFunc) in both cases.

[Kent1Cooper]

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@martin.mardikas wrote:

.... I loaded this y file to startup suite content  .....

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As described in Help, the Startup Suite runs when AutoCAD starts up, but that doesn't necessarily mean what's in it gets into every subsequent drawing you create or open.  Does what you want work in the first drawing upon opening AutoCAD, but not subsequent drawings?  It's not quite clear to me -- some kinds of things do seem to remain in effect in subsequent drawings, too, but I haven't experimented extensively.  In any case, if you load it via acaddoc.lsp instead of the Startup Suite, it will be loaded in every drawing.

[martin.mardikas]

I can add these functions to acaddoc.lsp file? Without it will mess up everything else?

[Kent1Cooper]

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@martin.mardikas wrote:

I can add these functions to acaddoc.lsp file? Without it will mess up everything else?

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Yes, either by including the function definitions themselves directly in it, or if you want those to remain as separate files, including (load) or (autoload) functions in it.

[Sea-Haven]

Been using startup suite for years and never had a problem of lisps not being loaded when do new dwg, so multiple dwg's open. 8 users and read from server not local.