where will i get vla funcion?

[thsa2501]

hii everyone,

kindly hepl me.where will i get vla function such as vla-put-textstring,vla-put-color,vla-getattributes,vla-item

thanks advance

[_gile · Accepted solution]

Hi

'vla' stands for Visual Lisp Automation.  The 'vla' functions are LISP wrappers to access to the AutoCAD COM API properties (vla-get-PropertyName / vla-put-PropertyName) and methods (vla-MethodName) using ActiveX/Automation. These methods ans properties are documented in the ActiveX: Reference Guide of the AutoCAD developper's documentation.

[Kent1Cooper · Accepted solution]

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@thsa2501 wrote:

....where will i get vla function ....

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If by that you mean how do you make those functions available to use, put this in at the command line:

(vl-load-com)

You can build that into the beginning of any AutoLisp routine definitions that use those functions, to be sure they will be available.

[paullimapa]

Just do a google search online for

autolisp vla functions

and you’ll find all your answers 

[john.uhden]

@_gile 

And God bless Peter Petrov for developing it for R14 as VitalLisp.

I hope Autodesk paid him well.

Anyway, the simple answer would be (vl-load-com).

[thsa2501]

hi gile,

thank you so much a lot

[yangguoshe]

If you want to get the list of all vla- functions , you can enter vla in vlide's text editor, double-click it, and then Ctrl+shift+space to pop up the function list