User interface
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Firstly, a big thanks for all your comments on the first anniversary post. It's good to know that people are finding this blog useful, and I hope the flow of ideas (internal and external) doesn't dry up anytime soon. So keep the comments coming! 🙂 This post is going to start a sequence of posts […]
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Thanks once again to Viru Aithal for the inspiration behind this post, although I did write most of the code, this time. 🙂 Adding a splash screen can give a touch of class to your application, assuming it's done non-intrusively. This post focuses on how best to do so within AutoCAD, and use the time […]
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It's often desirable to show a progress meter during lengthy operations. Although there's currently no public API to make use of AutoCAD's progress meter from .NET, there are nevertheless a couple of approaches to doing so. In this post I'll show how to do this using P/Invoke (using some code borrowed from Fenton Webb, from […]
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In the last post we looked at a jig that can be used to add block references to an AutoCAD drawing. This post extends that code to support annotative block definitions (available from AutoCAD 2008) and blocks with attributes. Thanks once again to Holger Steiner for the jig class and to Roland Feletic for posting […]
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A big thanks to Holger Seidel from CADsys for proposing this topic and providing the bulk of the code. My main contribution - aside from some minor edits - was to implement the logic in the "BJIG" command to allow selection of the block and then loop to multiply insert it. The jig definition is […]
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I started to address this topic during this previous post, but it seemed like it was worth coming back to. This time I'm looking at a different technique: to create our own partial CUI file programmatically using the Autodesk.AutoCAD.Customization functionality, save it to disk and then make sure it's loaded at the beginning of every […]
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To follow on from the last post, we're now going to take a look at adding custom menu items to the default context menu in AutoCAD. The default menu appears when the user right-clicks on the drawing but has no objects selected. This is a good place to put application commands, for instance. The approach […]
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It's been quite a week - between interviews for a DevTech position we're working to fill in Beijing and AU proposals (my team managed to pull together and submit nearly 60 API class proposals at the beginning of the week) life has been extremely hectic. Thankfully we're now in the middle of the "May Day […]
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This question was posted by csharpbird: How to get the Hatch dialog using .NET? It seems that there is no such class in the .NET API? It's true there is no public class - or even a published function - to show the hatch dialog inside AutoCAD. It is, however, possible to P/Invoke an unpublished […]
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The bulk of this code was donated by Virupaksha Aithal, a member of our DevTech team in India. It's fairly common for developers to want to check for user input from time to time during long operations, especially to see whether the user wants to cancel the current activity. In VB you'd use DoEvents() to […]