AcDbField creation and evaluation

Milos Mihajlovic

Can someone please explain/give example how can one create AcDbField as a part of a block attribute and evaluate it? I wrote a code that works in AutoCAD. For Bricscad, compilation goes well, everything as expected, but on execution the application doesn't behave the same as it does in AutoCAD.

Thank you.

Its_Alive

Here is a test I wrote a while back, maybe you can change out the mtext for an attribute.. hope it gives you some ideas : )

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static void Brx_doit(void)
    {
        AcDbObjectId fieldId;
        const TCHAR pRawCode[] = _T("%<<a href="file://\\AcVar">\\AcVar CDATE>% not a field %<<a href="file://\\AcVar">\\AcVar CTAB>%");
        AcDbDatabase *pDatabase = acdbHostApplicationServices()->workingDatabase();
        AcDbMText *pText = new AcDbMText();
        pText->setDatabaseDefaults(pDatabase);
        AcDbField *pField = new AcDbField(pRawCode,true);
        pField->postInDatabase(pDatabase);
        pText->setField(_T("TEXT"),pField,fieldId);
        pField->evaluate(AcDbField::kPreview,pDatabase);
        pField->close();
        AcDbBlockTableRecordPointer pSpace(pDatabase->currentSpaceId(),AcDb::kForWrite);
        pSpace->appendAcDbEntity(pText);
        pText->close();
    }

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