Retrieving the settings of an MLEADERSTYLE

[bowlingbrad]

Fellow Lispers,
I have a routine that will create MLEADERSTYLES using vlax-put-property commands. What I am missing is a way to retrieve the current values of an MLEADERSTYLE so that I can transfer the values into my creation routine. vlax-get-property mabye? I can do the following to get a dump of a specific object but not of the style itself. Any help?

(setq x (entsel))
(vlax-dump-object (vlax-Ename->Vla-Object (car x)) T)

[irneb]

You're correct, each call to vlax-put-property has a corresponding vlax-get-property. E.g.

;; Assume Obj is the vla object reference of the MLeaderStyle
(vlax-put-property Obj 'TextStyleName "STANDARD") ;Sets the txt stylename to STANDARD
;; then
(setq TStyle (vlax-get-property Obj 'TextStyleName)) ;Stores the TxtStyleName into var TStyle

BTW, you can also use the vla shortcut way:

(vla-put-TextStyleName Obj "STANDARD") ;Sets the txt stylename to STANDARD
;; then
(setq TStyle (vla-get-TextStyleName Obj)) ;Stores the TxtStyleName into var TStyle

Sometimes it gives better / easier to use results one way or another, depends on what data type the property is & what you want to do with the data.