Automatically Open Drawings From Previous Session

[robert.1.hall72202]

Set AcadLspAsDoc=0. Place all the code that you need to run in every drawing in AcadDoc.lsp. Leave only my 3 lines in Acad.lsp.

There is absolutely no compelling reason to have AcadLspAsDoc=1. When it is set to 0, you are then able to do stuff only upon inital AutoCAD startup viad Acad.lsp, instead of forcing stuff to happen in every drawing. Leave AcadDoc.lsp to do that work.

makes no difference

[Opie]

Robert,

Why have the VBA code autoload? Why not have the code in the acad.dvb and then execute the vba with a lisp loaded at the end of the Autocad initialization procedures? Will that resolve part of the problem?

Also, I have not reviewed or executed your code. So if this is a dumb idea, just ignore it.

[RobertB]

Why have the VBA code autoload? Why not have the code in the acad.dvb and then execute the vba with a lisp loaded at the end of the Autocad initialization procedures? Will that resolve part of the problem?

Good ideas, but ones that I already considered and tested. Placing the code in Acad.dvb avoids a load statement in the Acad.lsp file, true. However, it makes no difference in the issues that I'm trying to circumvent.

Also, I figured it was easier for someone to remove the code if it was a separate .dvb file. (As a CAD Manager I know I'd prefer it if 3rd party stuff stayed out of my Acad.dvb!)

I'm almost ready to post a final update. I'm reduced to waiting for the command prompt to be available as AutoCAD is just too unstable that early in the game.

[RobertB]

makes no difference

I need step-by-step issues from you, in order to understand what is going on at your end. It works as expected for Tod, vferrara, and I.

[madcadder]

... I'm reduced to waiting for the command prompt to be available as AutoCAD is just too unstable that early in the game.

Is that for making the "last active" current, closing "drawing1", both, neither?
I almost asked if there was a time delay that could be set...

[RobertB]

Making last active is not a problem. There is no way to get rid of Drawing1, since the code starts in Drawing1.

Autodesk thought that an Acad.dvb and AcadStartup procedure would avoid that issue, until I proved to them that is is a problem anyway. Maybe this will be fixed in the future. <sigh>

[RobertB]

Here is the latest version (v1.2).

The biggest change was in the code to be placed in the Acad.lsp file. There was a few minor edits to the ReadSnapshot procedure.

Remember, AcadLspAsDoc should be set to 0!

[madcadder]

can not close because command still active error

[madcadder]

I'm also getting the following error:

 Command: ze
 'zoom
 ARX_ERROR: eNotThatKindOfClass
 ARX_ERROR: eNotThatKindOfClass
 ARX_ERROR: eNotThatKindOfClass
 ARX_ERROR: eNotThatKindOfClass
 Specify corner of window, enter a scale factor (nX or nXP), or
 [All/Center/Dynamic/Extents/Previous/Scale/Window] <real time>: e Regenerating 
 model.
 
 ARX_ERROR: eNotThatKindOfClass
 ARX_ERROR: eNotThatKindOfClass
 ARX_ERROR: eNotThatKindOfClass
 ARX_ERROR: eNotThatKindOfClass
 Command:
 Zoom Extents Complete:

[RobertB]

can not close because command still active error

That's odd, as I'm not closing anything. Are you sure you don't have old stuff hanging around?

BTW, your 2nd post shows some zoom commands being executed. Was that you, or some automation?