Double-click Edit Attribute

Donald Broussard

I've successfully customized the CUI to run my lisp routine when the user double-clicks on an attribute. I need to change the lisp routine to select the attribute they double-clicked on? Everything I try returns the block, not the specific attribute?

I expected something very simple like this to work ...

(setq ss1 (ssget "i:n")) or (setq ss1 (ssget "i:v"))

Thanks in advance for your help

Kerry Brown

nentsel will allow the selection of the 'nested' attribute
Try something like :
(defun c:do-it () (if (setq selResult (nentsel)) (setq ent (car selResult)) ;else (exit) ) (setq selEname (entget ent)) ;; assume stuff :) ) (alert (strcat (cdr (assoc 2 selEname)) " : " (cdr (assoc 1 selEname)))) (princ) )

Roy Klein Gebbinck

Using nentsel will not work if you want the code to work in a double click action.

(defun c:MyAttEdit ( / gr)
  (if (= 5 (car (setq gr (grread T))))
    (print (entget (car (nentselp (cadr gr)))))
  )
  (princ)
)

Note:
Using (getvar 'lastpoint) to acquire the point for nentselp does not work properly if there is a preselection.

Donald Broussard

(setq ssText (ssget "i:v"))
(setq oText (car (nentselp (cadar (cdddar (ssnamex ssText))))))

this seems to be doing the trick :-)

Roy Klein Gebbinck

Does "I:V" even work?

Kerry Brown

@Donald Broussard said:
(setq ssText (ssget "i:v"))
(setq oText (car (nentselp (cadar (cdddar (ssnamex ssText))))))

this seems to be doing the trick :-)

Giving credit to the author would have been polite.

Kerry Brown

@Roy Klein Gebbinck said:
Does "I:V" even work?

Hi Roy,
It does for me if the attribute is pre-selected, which I assume Donald is relying on with the double click

Changing the DoubleClick functionality for attributes would mean that _eattedit would no longer be called

... but to each his own

Roy Klein Gebbinck

I should have explained better:
I believe that using ":V" has not effect when combined with "I".

Donald Broussard

Bricscad bug exposed ... It is not recognizing anonymous blocks correctly with double-click. Reported.

Is it just me or has the quality of support taken a huge hit?

chillme1

The support seems much better here to me in compared to Autodesk.
This is just an observation of a newcomer to the application.

C. Hill

Donald Broussard

@chillme1 said:
The support seems much better here to me in compared to Autodesk.
This is just an observation of a newcomer to the application.

C. Hill

Oh yes! Much better than Autodesk!