Recommendations for a DCL beginner

[Tharwat]

Hello everyone .

This is my first post in this precious and esteemed forum and I hope that I could be an active guy in here as soon as I get started running into DCL since
that it is completely new to me although that I feel somehow doing well with Lisp and Vlisp .

So I would like to know your opinions and recommendations for me as a beginner in DCL and where should start from to be able to continue in the right direction .

I downloaded the the Open DCL Studio with its three folders of examples, and I have just started reading and implementing the examples .

Many thanks for you all .

Tharwat

[Fred Tomke]

Hello and welcome Tharwat,

starting with the downloaded tutorial is the best way to get into the way to work with OpenDCL.
Please also have a look at the FAQs which contains many other samples. And of course, take the chance to start a search for keywords. Of course it is not easy to search if you don't know the right words what to search for. Then let us now: we will try to help you.

Regards, Fred

[Tharwat]

Thank you so much Mr Fred .

I am glad to be here and, I am a regular member with all Lisp forums and hope to be here also as well, besides that, to get started quickly as soon as I can
understand the way it goes .

Thanks for your welcome and for the link .

Best regards.

Tharwat

[Tharwat]

Hi .

Is there any routine or program already made that I can load to see how things are going with DCL codes ?

And how to load to Autocad and run the program ?

Thanks a lot .

Tharwat

[Fred Tomke]

Hi, Tharwat,

when you have installed OpenDCL Studio you can start AutoCAD and call the command _OPENDCL at the command line. Then the OpenDCL API is loaded for the current AutoCAD session.

To load a lisp you can either use AutoCAD APPLOAD command or you use (load "yourlisp.lsp") in each drawing or (vl-load-all "yourlisp.lsp") on AutoCAD startup in a acaddoc.lsp in one of AutoCAD support paths or even in a mnl-file of you custom menu.

If you just work with the OpenDCL tutorial you will see how to start. There are many samples on this forum, for instance here:
http://www.opendcl.com/forum/index.php?topic=1080.0

Regards, Fred