LISP for setting Mleaderstyle then creating Mleader not working

[Hollyfeld]

Hello all,

I have searched all over and cannot find an answer as to why this is not working. I want to create a LISP that will change the Mleaderstyle to an existing style and then start a Multileader on the correct layer.

I created a custom command from the CUI called 'Proposed Multileader'. In the 'Tool Properties' box I have this set to the 'P-Anno' layer and I have it set to use the 'Proposed' text style.

I have a Multileader Style setup as 'Proposed' with all the correct variables.

This is the code I have in the Command String section of the 'Tool Properties': (setvar "cmleaderstyle" "Proposed") ^C^C_mleader

It starts the multileader command, but does not change the mleaderstyle to 'Proposed'.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks

[Tharwat]

Hi,

You need to leave the command name as a string reserved for the command name that you would like to call to use what has written in the macro section, so just add the following into the macro section:

^C^C(setvar "cmleaderstyle" "Proposed") _mleader

Note:
1- You need to be sure is that the Mleader style name is available into your current drawing otherwise an error would occur.
2-Note that there is a space before the Mleader command.

The name of the command and as shown in the attached image is: Test and you can rename as per your needs.

cui.PNG

[rkmcswain]

That works fine here.

Are you sure that the mleaderstyle "proposed" exists? It can't switch to it, if it doesn't exist.

[Hollyfeld]

Thank you Tharwat. It all had to do with where I had the ^C^C in the code.


I did have the proposed mleaderstyle in the drawing, but I did check again when you mentioned it just to be sure.

Hi,

You need to leave the command name as a string reserved for the command name that you would like to call to use what has written in the macro section, so just add the following into the macro section:

^C^C(setvar "cmleaderstyle" "Proposed") _mleader

Note:
1- You need to be sure is that the Mleader style name is available into your current drawing otherwise an error would occur.
2-Note that there is a space before the Mleader command.

The name of the command and as shown in the attached image is: Test and you can rename as per your needs.

cui.PNG

[Tharwat]

Thank you Tharwat. It all had to do with where I had the ^C^C in the code.

I did have the proposed mleaderstyle in the drawing, but I did check again when you mentioned it just to be sure.

That sounds you got it working now. Right?

[Hollyfeld]

That sounds you got it working now. Right?

Oops, I should have clarified that I got it working.

[Tharwat]

Oops, I should have clarified that I got it working.

Great to hear that.

[rkmcswain]

Thank you Tharwat. It all had to do with where I had the ^C^C in the code.

Not here it didn't.
I would not have put a ^c^c where you did, but I did test it that way, and it works just fine.

[Hollyfeld]

Not here it didn't.
I would not have put a ^c^c where you did, but I did test it that way, and it works just fine.

I thought it made sense to have the ^C^C where I had it originally, but for some reason it didn't work.