DOSLib 7.8 WIP1 for Bricscad V8 now available
For those of you who are familiar with DOSLib on the AutoCAD platform, you will be pleased to know that I've started porting DOSLib 7.8 to Bricscad V8. For those of you not familiar with DOSLib, it is a library of LISP-callable functions to do a variety of tasks that are not achievable using just LISP. The follow link summarizes all of the functions built into DOSLib 7.8:http://en.wiki.mcneel.com/default.aspx/McNeel/DOSLib.htmlThe first DOSLib 7.8 WIP, or "work-in-progress", version is now available from the following location:http://download.mcneel.com/download.asp?id=doslibMost of the non-user interface functions, with the exception of the functions specific to AutoCAD, should be hooked up and ready for testing and usage.Feel free to email me with any questions and comments that you might have.Thanks,Dale FugierRobert McNeel & Associatesdale@mcneel.com
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I'm using Bricscad v8.0.22-1 and I cannot get this to load. Are you sure this is compatible with Bricscad?
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Hi Steven,I've been testing with Bricscad Pro Version 8.0.19 Build 8922. I see that the newer version is now available. Give me a change to download it and see what is going on. Thanks for the report.Thanks, Dale Fugier Robert McNeel & Associates dale@mcneel.com
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Hi Steven, I've updated the DOSLib download to support the currently available Bricscad Pro, Version 8.0.22 Build 9246. Please download and try again. http://download.mcneel.com/download.asp?id=doslib Thanks, Dale Fugier Robert McNeel & Associates dale@mcneel.com
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Now that's a nice and unexpected surprise. Thanks Dale.
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It still won't load. Does it have anything to do with the fact that I'm using the Classic version rather than the Pro version. They're both supposed to be able to load .arx/.drx files.
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Hi Steven,I am going to have to claim a little ignorance on the product line - I do not know the capabilities between Classic and Pro. Are you getting any kind of errors? Perhaps you are just missing some Microsoft DLLs.Thanks, Dale Fugier Robert McNeel & Associates dale@mcneel.com
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I loaded it successfully into Classic v8.0.21My understanding is that the only extra things you get in the Pro version are Visual Basic for Applications and full ACIS modelling and editing.
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I just downloaded the latest version, Bricscad v8.0.23-1 Classic, and it still doesn't work. This is the error message: Error loading ""C:\Program Files\DOSLib 7.8\DOSLib17.arx": .NIL
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You should be loading a .drx file, not an .arx file - you probably got the wrong package.
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That solved the problem! I didn't realize I had to use the pull-down list to select DOSLib for Intellicad in order to get the correct files. Thanks!
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Doslib is already broken in the latest Bricscad beta (8.1.2). While I suspect it may be related to the new compiler for that Bricscad version, I'd still like to mention that the good old doslib4.dll worked for every version from Intellicad98 to the latest Bricscad v7 version, without modification.
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Does doslib4.dll work in Bricscad v8? How do you load a dll file?
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doslib4.dll does not work with v8. My point with mentioning that particular doslib version was it worked with every build of Intellicad from Intellicad98 to BricsCad v7. In v8, support (for doslib 7.8) is already broken in an intermediary build, so something got much less tolerant to version changes.
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Hello Asbjørn,The name icad.exe has been in use for maybe 15 years until we changed it for V8. This broke doslib.Version 8.1 is the first version that has been built with Visual Studio 2005 , and modules have to relink with our new libraries. There's no hidden vulnerability here.kind regards,Alexander Van HeuverzwynBricsys
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Hi All, I've updated the DOSLib download to support the currently available Bricscad Pro, Version 8.0.23 Build 9327. Please download and try again. http://download.mcneel.com/download.asp?id=doslib Thanks, Dale Fugier Robert McNeel & Associates dale@mcneel.com
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Tried it. It loaded. Tried a selection of commandsin the order in doslib help.Drive, path, directory,etc. up till process functions seem to work. From "User Interface Functions" till the end,Bricscad 8.0.23 returns "error : no function definition at [EVAL]"
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Hi Yaacov,Thanks for testing. The UI functions are forthcoming.Thanks, - Dale
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Dale,Hope you will find time to update doslib to the most recent Bricscad version (8.1.6-1). Support is broken because Bricsys changed the compiler for Bricscad.
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