AU2006 LISP Table Magic

[peter]

Hey Group,

I just wanted to mention that I had a good response to my class at AU2006.

The course title was LISP Table Magic.

Do you ever want to create tables with LISP? Bill of materials? etc...

I wrote a series of functions that create and populate tables on the fly.

If anyone is interested, I can post the code here.

Peter

[Opie]

That would be great, Peter. I'm sure they would be used by many.

[peter]

Here is the code.

Load the LISPTableMagic.lsp first (written for A2k6)
LISPTableMagicBonus.lsp next (written for A2k7)
and finally the UpdateTable.lsp

The handout only covers the first file, the others were bonus files.

Run the BOMDIalog command line function to sepcify blocks to show in schedule and set pricing.

Run BillOfMaterials command line function to create a block schedule.

If you change the number of blocks the updateTable function will update the table.

Make sure your textsize system variable is not set to zero.


Peter

[John Allan]

Thanks Peter,

That is really helpful, I have looked through the updatetable.lsp and this seems to be what I am looking for...
However I am really after a single action that will update a single cell in a specified table.

The table styles / names are always going to be named... are there any short snippets of code I could use with this?

For example:
(defun update_table (tablename row col content)
** update it here**
)

(update_table “revisions” “a” 1 “This is the contents”)