close_all ?? how to activate when exiting drawings?

[Hypersonic]

I have a problem withi dialogs remaining open when I open a different drawing or reopen the current drawing, and then the dialogs are not really loaded.
Does anyone have any pointers on how to automatically close out dialog boxes when reopoening a drawing or opening a different drawing?

Thanks!

[Fred Tomke]

Hello, Hypersonic, you have two possibilities: either you define a editor or drawing reactor which closes or update the form when a new drawing will be opened. Otherwise you define a command which will be automatically started when your lisp application will be loaded in each drawing.

Regards, Fred

[Fred Tomke]

Hi, Hypersonic, my answer followed the contents of your topic. When following the title of your topic I'd rather activate the EnteringNoDocState event.

Regards, Fred

[Hypersonic]

Awesome thanks Fred!

[Hypersonic]

I have never done a reactor, but have always thought it would be useful to learn how, would you be able to point me in the right direction as to where to learn about them?

Thanks!

[Fred Tomke]

Hello, Hypersonic, during the AutoCAD installation you can add the VisualLISP tutorium. That includes the garden path sample using reactors.

Regards, Fred

[Hypersonic]

I used this in my startup routine and it works great!  (dcl_Form_CloseAll 0);closes all open dialog boxes

Thanks!

[vpost]

Hello. I have a question on the same subject.
At me in AutoCAD some windows are open. How to execute a command (dcl_Form_CloseAll 0) upon transition from one window in another. I tried EnteringNoDocState but it works only when closing the last window?

Regards

[Fred Tomke]

Hi, EnteringNoDocState is only used for modeless forms (modeless, palette, dockable) when the last drawing ist closed.

(dcl_Form_CloseAll 0) closes all OpenDCL forms. Querying the systemvariable CMDACTIVE tells you, if a modal AutoCAD form is active.

(vl-remove-if-not 'dcl_form_isactive (apply 'append (mapcar 'dcl_project_getforms (dcl_getprojects)))) returns a list of all open forms.

Regards, Fred