how to start LSP.files automaticly

Peter Bontekoe

How to start LSP.files automaticly

All my lisp-files are placed in (which also is the route in my "support file search path"):

C:\Documents and Settings\peter\Application Data\Bricsys\Bricscad\V10\en_US\support\On_start.lsp;

and On_start.lsp for each doc has been selected in the option-folder.

Although these settings I have to load in each new drawing my lisp-files.

What is going wrong??

Regards.
Peter

Roy Klein Gebbinck

Please clarify: you say that you have placed lisp-files inside On_start.lsp, does this mean that you have a folder named On_start.lsp containing lisp-files?

Peter Bontekoe

Yes, indeed. That's wrong??

Regards.

Peter

Roy Klein Gebbinck

Yes, that is wrong. on_start.lsp should be a lisp-file and not a folder. There are two main options:

1.
Put all your lisp-routines inside on_start.lsp.

2.
Use on_start.lsp to load seperate lisp-files. Your on_start.lsp could then look like this:

 

(load "MyLispA") ; MyLispA.lsp should be in the search path
(load "MyLispB") ; MyLispB.lsp should be in the search path
; etc.

 

Or this:

 

(autoload "MyLispA" '("MyCommandA1" "MyCommandA2")) ; MyLispA.lsp should be in the search path and contains functions c:MyCommandA1 and c:MyCommandA2
(autoload "MyLispB" '("MyCommandB1"))               ; MyLispB.lsp should be in the search path and contains function c:MyCommandB1

You should also be aware of on_doc_load.lsp... You are now using on_start.lsp instead of on_doc_load.lsp. This is possible, but why not set up things the way they were intended:
Do not load on_start.lsp with every drawing, but only at start-up and use it for things you want to do once at the beginning of every drawing session. And use on_doc_load.lsp for things that you want to do for every drawing.

 

Juraj Matel

If all settings is Ok and still it not work, check if you don't have one of this file created here with zero size.

c:\Program Files\Bricsys\Bricscad V10\on_start.lsp
c:\Program Files\Bricsys\Bricscad V10\on_doc_load.lsp

If yes, delete it. Time to time BC or "who" create here (in Bricscad V10 folder) this file...

Torsten Moses

As Juraj mentioned, if there are multiple files
"on_statrt.lsp" and/or "on_doc_load.lsp", it is easy
to verify which one is loaded :

(findfile "on_start.lsp")
resp.
(findfile "on_doc_load.lsp")

will show which file is finally used for loading.

Hennie Maartens

I'm having difficuly invoking lisp routines from pulldown menus. The tried and trusted syntax


[Horizontal]^C^C(if(not c:forcehor)(load"c:/data/lisp/forcehor");+
(princ "Already loaded.."));forcehor

should display the pulldown "Horizontal" ( which it does), then  load (which it does not)  and run  forcehor.lsp.

Also, how do I add onto the default Bricscad menu ? As far as I know I need a .mnu
file onto which I can add my custom menus. I managed to load an entire .mnu
file, but then the default Bricscad menu items disppear. I wish to retain them
and just augment.

 

Jörg Ehrsam

I don't know if this is still necessary, but I think the file path should read like this
(load "c:\\data\\lisp\\forcehor.lsp"). Maybe, a better solution would be to include
"C:data" in your search path right away -> Settings -> Program options -> Files ->
Support file search path, you can add "C:data" there and dispense with the need to
include the file path in your code.
For adding your menu -> Tools -> Customize -> File (in top left corner) -> load partial cui file,
you can then load your menu and it will be appended to the main BC menu.

Roy Klein Gebbinck

@ Hennie Maartens:
There is a mistake in your trusted syntax: the first semicolon is in the middle of some lisp code...

Try this (HorizontalAlt has nicer echoes):

***MENUGROUP=Test

***POP1
  [&Test]
  [Horizontal]^C^C(if(not c:forcehor)(load"c:/data/lisp/forcehor")(princ"Already loaded.."));forcehor;
  [HorizontalAlt]^C^C(if(not c:forcehor)(progn(load"c:/data/lisp/forcehor")(princ"\r"))(princ"\rAlready loaded.."))(princ);forcehor;

Peter Bontekoe

@ Roy, Juraj and Torsten,

Thanks a lot for your answers, it's working !! 

('have learned a lot this weekend)

 

Best regards.

Peter

 

 

John Gaunt

It doesn't matter that lisps are loaded each time they are run, does it? The form for all of mine is [XXX]^c^c^c(load"xxx") xxx.

Bcad is set to start in the parent directory for all my dwgs (named C:\dwgs) and all the lisps are there including on_doc_load, so I never have to wonder about the path or include it with every new menu lisp addition.