DCL & LISP: is there a way to continue lisp after (start_dialog)
Hello everybody,
I am trying my hand at some DCL-programming. The problem I am faced with is that I would like to display a dialog containing a "Please wait" message before some longish lisp action is executed. But the start_dialog command effectively suspends the lisp and the program sits there waiting for user input. Is there a solution for this other than using print/prompt to display the "Please wait" message in the command line?
Thanks in advance, Roy.
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Dear Roy, there is no way to have DCL dialogs being "modeless" ...
You might have a look at DOSLib from McNeel - not sure, but I guess it has a modeless message box.DOSLib is free - and available for both Acad + Bricscad.
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OpenDCL will certainly do what you want (and much, much more). Its also free.
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Dan and Torsten thank you for your anwers.
I know about DOSLib. But my goal, at least for now, is to do without these functions and try to use "pure lisp".
OpenDCL is already on my things-I-need-to-learn-more-about-list. It is one of the reasons why I chose the Pro version.0 -
Roy,
Instead of using please wait, how about using these functions
(acet-ui-progress-init "message" val) ;val = time integer
(acet-ui-progress-safe n)
(acet-ui-progress-done)0 -
Daniel thank you for that tip. Note: the progress bar is displayed in the status bar but the text message is not (BC 10.2.14).
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Hi Daniel, Hi Roy,
indeed, using progress bar is the better idea :-)
Unfortunately, Bricscad's progressbar does not yet display a preceeding text ... but Lisp interface already supports this, for compatibility reasons.
I hope, it will be added once.0
