VLIDE will not stay open? Any Help Appreeciated.

[ReachAndre]

Hello all,
I am having an issue with my editor and was looking for a little bit of help.

I can type in VLIDE and my editor pops open for a second then returns to my Acad screen. I see the editor is open on my programs/start bar, but I can not keep the editor displayed.

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Thanks,
Andre

[icbinr]

I get a similar problem to this using 2010. Not sure what causes it.

My solution is to move the lisp editor to my 2nd monitor.

I have also noticed that if I leave the editor open that it will occasionally go into a random break loop and I have to hit CTRL+R to get out of it.

[ccowgill]

I get a similar problem to this using 2010. Not sure what causes it.

My solution is to move the lisp editor to my 2nd monitor.

I have also noticed that if I leave the editor open that it will occasionally go into a random break loop and I have to hit CTRL+R to get out of it.

I have put my VLIDE on the second screen as well, It is very annoying to get a little off the vlide and have AutoCAD come current. On the occasional break loops, that is probably a result of poor programming, or you escape out of the middle of a command, not allowing it to finish.
Andre,
Is it possible that you have something similar to NVIEW Desktop Manager running? My computer at home has this software, and I have the option checked to automatically make the window I am over current, which could be causing your issue.

[icbinr]

I do have NVIEW Desktop running... I'll give that a look..... Mine seems to be an intermittent problem though.

One time it will do it and then it will run fine for a week or so and then one day it starts acting up again.

[irneb]

This usually happens if some code you ran caused an error. The debugging kicks in and "should" open the VLIDE, then when you step through the code it "should" return to ACAD as soon as a message is requested from the user. But sometimes this process gets screwed up Then only a restart of ACAD fixes this.

You could always just turn off the ACad/VLIDE swapping: In the VLIDE go to Tools --> Environment Options --> General Options. Then in the General Options dialog, uncheck the "Autoactivate ACAD" checkbox at the bottom & OK to close. Then (to ensure this is saved) do Tools --> Save Settings

Just remember that if this is turned off & you're debugging something, it won't automatically flip to ACAD if your code asks for user input.