LISP Shorthand

[peter]

Hello fellow AUGI LISP programmers.

Many of you probably know me, but I am an old school lisp programmer and have written LISP professionally for many years.

I have been working on a LISP shorthand syntax for the last couple years that turns lisp into a much easier programming language.

I was wondering if any of you would like to help me document and publish my tools?

The new syntax might be as simple as

(item 'layers "0")

as compared to

(vl-catch-all-apply '(lambda (X)(vla-item (vla-get-layers (vla-get-activedocument (vlax-get-acad-object))) X)) (list"0"))

That does the same thing

[BIG-AL]

Happy to provide some, bit like Lee-mac.com will try to put together a summary index. Like you now pushing 40 years of lisp.

Points addition / add to X Y etc using lambda starting using a lot, much easier to find mid pt of 2 pts.

The obvious is the simple DTR RTD

Angles a90 a180 a270 a45 a135 a225 a315

osnaps type 47 1 99 etc common individual or groups.

For me I have a reactor for offset circles and fillet F123 does a fillet of 123 C34 draws a circle with radius 34. Can be expanded to other commands saving key strokes.

Library Dcl's 2x2 2x3 3x3 4x4, Multi getvals, Multi toggle buttons, Multi Radio buttons. GRR has some really nice dynamic ones as well. These are loaded via a (if (not so don't have to be autoloaded. I no longer use initget for multi choice input. Code is like 2 lines.

So many check/create for layer, linetype, textstyle, blocks, as you suggested.

Lots of entmake stuff but often needs a tweak.

(get-co-ordinates plent)

For CIV3D use a toolbar to change surface display much easier than Toolspace. same with point label style.

[peter]

Can you PM your email so I can share a dropbox folder with the code, help and vlx files in it?

Peter

[peter]

This may be a useful tool for programmers that is included in my code

EulerV.jpg

With code like this that allows the programmer to decide what kind of entry is needed. Edit Box or select from list etc...

EulerVLISP.jpg

[peter]

It writes the dcl on the fly so we do not need to create dcl files, we just need to create a list and it creates the dcl automatically.

[BIG-AL]

That's the way I have gone for my inputs and choices.