Missing Open dialog box

[a_meteni]

Hi everybody,
Lately when i'm using OPEN command no dialoge box appear and i have to type though the Command line or press (SHIFT + ~) to get the dialoge box.
is there's a way to get it back???
Thanks,

[johan d]

filedia=1=dialog box
filedia=0=command line

[Coolmo]

Does anyone know why this setting might keep changing back to filedia = 0? A handful of people in our office keep asking this same question from time to time so obviously something they're doing sets it back to 0. All we use is standard LDD 2006 out of the box so some third party software can't be changing the setting. Thoughts?

[rkmcswain]

Does anyone know why this setting might keep changing back to filedia = 0? A handful of people in our office keep asking this same question from time to time so obviously something they're doing sets it back to 0. All we use is standard LDD 2006 out of the box so some third party software can't be changing the setting. Thoughts?

With many LDT commands, if you cancel using <ESC>, system variables are not reset.

If that's not it, you could set up a VBA sub with an App_SysVarChanged event to notify you when it get's changed. If you have access to the 2005 AU docs, this is documented in CP31-1.

[BeKirra]

Hi everybody,
Lately when i'm using OPEN command no dialoge box appear and i have to type though the Command line or press (SHIFT + ~) to get the dialoge box.
is there's a way to get it back???
Thanks,

Set CMDDIA = 0 to hide dialog box;
Set CMDDIA = 1 to show dialog box.

[BeKirra]

Does anyone know why this setting might keep changing back to filedia = 0? A handful of people in our office keep asking this same question from time to time so obviously something they're doing sets it back to 0. All we use is standard LDD 2006 out of the box so some third party software can't be changing the setting. Thoughts?

I'm using Mechanical 2005 & I have same problem.
With many system variables, the settings keep changing back to default value.

Can anyone help?

[ccowgill]

add it to your acad.lsp or acaddoc.lsp, if you set your system variables there, every time you start a new drawing, they will be reset to whatever you use.

[rkmcswain]

Set CMDDIA = 0 to hide dialoge box;
Set CMDDIA = 1 to show dialoge box.

That is wrong.

FILEDIA controls FILE DIAlog display. This was answered earlier in this thread

[rkmcswain]

add it to your acad.lsp or acaddoc.lsp, if you set your system variables there, every time you start a new drawing, they will be reset to whatever you use.

True. Just to clarify, assuming ACADLSPASDOC = 0, then "acad.lsp" should contain things that need to be done once per AutoCAD session -and- "acaddoc.lsp" should contain things that need to be done each time a drawing is opened.

But if something changes a sysvar during a particular drawing session, this won't help unless you save and reopen the drawing.

[limartin]

From the Help Index -

FILEDIA
Suppresses display of file navigation dialog boxes.

0

Does not display dialog boxes. You can still request a file dialog box to appear by entering a tilde (~) in response to the command’s prompt. The same is true for AutoLISP and ADS functions.

1

Displays dialog boxes. However, if a script or AutoLISP/ObjectARX™ program is active, an ordinary prompt is displayed.


CMDDIA
Controls the display of dialog boxes for some commands.

0

Off

1

On



Variables not equally exclusive. We had a script that turned both of these off while printing in V14 and then turned them back on. We had to manipulate them both if the print process was interrupted at all.