2013: Command Line and Text Window not showing the same thing.

[ericallenstiles]

I've written a lisp program that I've used for years. I know the prompts by heart and don't read them, but I just noticed that the prompt was missing characters. I'm not sure when this started to happen but I spent some time trying to track down why some of the characters were missing when I noticed that the characters show up in the Text Window vs the command prompt area.

In my lisp program, it will ask the user for some text with a default and some other options. It should look something like this and does if you hit the F2 key and look at it in the Text Window:

[.]=none, [/]=settings, Text? <default text>:

But in the command line area it looks like this:

[.]=none, =settings, Text? <default text>:

Notice that the settings button is not being displayed.
I've also attached a screen shot. This is strange, has anyone else seen this?
I'm currently running AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013

Eric

[Tom Beauford]

You should consider updating your code. Paste this little snippet to the command line to see how it works. If you like how it works you should be able to put it in your code rather easily.

(defun try (/ kword notnil)
          (initget "None Settings Text")
            (if(= kword nil)(setq kword "WHAT THE HECK!"))
            (if(setq notnil (getkword (strcat " [None/Settings/Text] <" kword ">: ")))(setq kword notnil))
            (if(= kword "Text")(setq kword (getstring T (strcat "Enter Text: <" kword ">: "))))
)
(try)

[ericallenstiles]

I found the answer on Autodesk forums
http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/visual...702361#M333254

[Tom Beauford]

I found the answer on Autodesk forums
http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/visual...702361#M333254

Yes you should consider updating your code. I used an example of the '[ ]' characters in the snippet I posted earlier. Did you try it?