How to suppress the command line echo?

[nick.fisher]

I don't have the option of doing what I need to do in AutoCAD 2004 in pure VBA so as a workaround I need to send a command to the command line, for example...

ThisDrawing.SendCommand "DRAWORDER" & vbCr & "Previous" & vbCr & vbCr & "Back" & vbCr

... but it's crude as it echos to the command line. I had a look to see if there was a way to suppress this echo, which is easy in AutoLISP, but via VBA I couldn't find anything. Any ideas?

[RobertB]

Try the NoMutt system variable.

[mtuersley]

Try using AsdkUnsupp2004.arx library. It provides full access to the sortents table.

[RobertB]

Oh, yeah, forgot about that beast!

[Ed Jobe]

Probably 'cause its so hard to find.

[RobertB]

Probably 'cause its so hard to find.

That, and the fact that 2004 was how many releases and betas ago?!

[mtuersley]

Too many to count =) As for hard to find, it's probably because no one wants to support it if others see their name attached to it

Anyway, here it is

[nick.fisher]

Hmm, good shout. The NoMutt sysvar is big improvement, not quite perfect but nevertheless. I think I'll stick rather than twist with the AsdkUnsupp2004.arx library.

Cheers,

Nick

[mtuersley]

Either should work for you. Using the library is probably the better choice though because you avoid using SendCommand which is a large plus. Good luck with it!

[eolson]

Wouldn't the "setvar" command work - I know you have to use the sendcommand function, but it seems to me that it would be simple enough... better than having to download something

ThisDrawing.SetVariable "cmdecho" 0

??