Alert that someone has tried to get in your drawing

[ccowgill]

The problem I am having is that an engineer will get in a drawing and forget that they have it open, so they give me a sheet and I need to open that drawing but it is read-only. I would like a lisp routine that is in the background and will fire on the engineer's computer when I try to get in the drawing.

I have been trying to incorporate some of the techniques given in the thread
"Loading LISP routines, Is there a better way..."

so the lisp routines will all be located in one spot, I believe this would make it easier to get it to just pop up.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

[kennet.sjoberg]

Activate AutoCADs command whohas ( whohas.arx ) on all computers.

: ) Happy Computing !

kennet

[ccowgill]

I thought that in ACAD2005 whohas automatically loads; so when you try to access a drawing it will show you that the drawing you want to use is read-only and tell you who is in it.

I want something that will allow me to have the option to send a message (or have and alert pop up) to the other user's computer to let them know I would like to work in the drawing that they are currently in.

[kennet.sjoberg]

I thought that in ACAD2005 whohas automatically loads; so when you try to access a drawing it will show you that the drawing you want to use is read-only and tell you who is in it.Yes, and I suppose that to write a program that investigate "whohas"
send a network message
alert the intruder
is much more harder than to pick up the phone ;)

: ) Happy Computing !

kennet

[ccowgill]

your right, I probably dont really need that kind of functionality, I can just pick up the phone and let the engineer know they need to get out of the drawing.

I figured it might also help me out in playing a few practical jokes.