AutoCAD .NET
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I've been meaning to attack this one since we first published the Clipboard Manager as a Plugin of the Month: working out how to display a preview image of the clipboard contents inside the Clipboard Manager palette. And then I happened to receive a request by email, yesterday, suggesting a couple of enhancements to the […]
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Terry Dotson has – once again – generously offered an application to be an ADN Plugin of the Month. This little tool, called DrawOrderByLayer, allows you to modify the draw-order of objects in an AutoCAD drawing according to the layer they're on. I don't expect this to go live for another month or so (I […]
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I had a very nice surprise in my inbox, this morning. Thorsten Meinecke, from GTB in Berlin, decided to convert the VB.NET code contained in the last post into an F# script and to share it with this blog's readership. Thanks, Thorsten! 🙂 One thing about it being an F# script (typically stored in a […]
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A friend in our Product Support team in Neuchâtel asked me to help develop a little application to sort drawing files on disk. He has some old Clipper scripts that he used during a previous life as a CAD Manager to sort drawing files into different folders based on their version (held in the first […]
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I just thought I'd report back on a few changes made to the BrowsePhotosynth Plugin of the Month during the course of this week. The updated version has just been announced on Scott Sheppard's blog and I thought I'd share some of the specific implementation details. The first one (in the 1.0.1 update) was a […]
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Many of you will have seen previous incarnations of this tool, during its development. It's a little more complex than most of our other monthly plugins – mostly as it depends on a couple of external components – but the functionality should hopefully be simple enough to understand and use. I won't go into great […]
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Thanks to Philippe Leefsma, from our DevTech team in Europe, for providing the code for this post. Philippe kindly based his code on that provided in this previous post, which made it especially easy for me to format for posting. Thanks, Philippe! 🙂 In the post linked to above we saw some code defining a […]
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As mentioned in the last post, I decided to update the RegDL tool – which can be used to create demand-loading entries for an AutoCAD .NET module from, for instance, an installer – to support optional logging to a file. If you now run RegDL.exe with the /log command-line switch, then the application will now […]
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In the first part in this series, we looked at getting our basic installer to install files and in the second part we focused on checking and modifying the Registry. In this part we're going to finish up our installer by tweaking the user interface. Let's get started with some fundamentals: the name of the […]
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In the last post we created a basic installer to deploy our product files and source into a user-specified location. In this post we'll look at the Registry-related activities that need to happen from our installer. One of the files we added to the install project was the RegDL executable. We're going to add some […]