Turn off the (I'll call it) "error reporting" that flashes back to the command line

[dfuehrer]

Hello everyone,

I would like to thank everyone here, who has assisted me with the creation of my "Masterpiece." I have yet another question, and am hopeful that the experts here can, and will help me again. Here goes...

In my "Masterpiece" I have turned off the command line echo in my code, by using:

(setvar "cmdecho" 0)

This is so everything being processed doesn't show at the command line.

My question is this... How can I turn off the (I'll call it) "error reporting" that flashes back to the command line when I run my "Masterpiece?" An example of this would be like this:

No unreferenced text styles found.
No unreferenced shape files found.
No unreferenced dimension styles found.
No unreferenced mlinestyles found.
No unreferenced plotstyles found.
No unreferenced table styles found.
No unreferenced blocks found.
No unreferenced layers found.
No unreferenced linetypes found.
Cannot freeze layer "0". It is the CURRENT layer.
No matching layer names found.

It shows multiple lines of most of these, I have just shown them once here. I have in the code, things such as layer names that may not be in the particular drawing I am running my code on.

How can I tell AutoCAD (in my code) to not display this stuff. Also, if I am able to turn this "error reporting" off, how do I turn it back on at the end of the routine?

Thanks in advance!

Don

[T.Willey]

Look at "nomutt". But if you use that, then make sure that you turn it back on.

Tim

[dfuehrer]

It doesn't seem to have any effect... What would the usage look like in my code?

Don

[Opie]

to suppress message displays

(setvar "nomutt" 1)

to enable message displays

(setvar "nomutt" 0)

[dfuehrer]

I tried that. Does it matter where I put it in the code?

[Opie]

I tried that. Does it matter where I put it in the code?

You need to turn it off (suppress) before the step you want to suppress. Then turn it back on at the end of what you want to suppress. It should not make any difference on the location before or after.

This may not do what you want it to do, either.

[dfuehrer]

I think you are correct. I seem to barking up the wrong tree...

[T.Willey]

If that doesn't work, then, if you really want to get rid of that stuff, maybe you should use ActiveX features, and code it yourself. I don't know what your code is or does, so this is just a guess at what you might be able to do to solve it.

Tim

[Jeff_M]

Hi Don,
Looking back through your code (I didn't really look at it before beyond the problem area) I see you use the Purge command multiple times. AFAIK there is NO way to suppress the output from the Purge command. You CAN, however, convert all of your (command) calls to pure lisp versions. This will take some time to figure out and debug, but it will be a great learning experience for you.

Hint: Create a helper function that can be called multiple times, rather than rewriting the same code for each item you want to "purge".

If you want help in this direction, just say so....

Jeff

[Opie]

Hi Don,
Looking back through your code (I didn't really look at it before beyond the problem area) I see you use the Purge command multiple times. AFAIK there is NO way to suppress the output from the Purge command. You CAN, however, convert all of your (command) calls to pure lisp versions. This will take some time to figure out and debug, but it will be a great learning experience for you.

Hint: Create a helper function that can be called multiple times, rather than rewriting the same code for each item you want to "purge".

If you want help in this direction, just say so....

Jeff

Jeff, I guess you are thinking modular so the helper functions could be reused for other routines in the future. Good Idea.