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Still working on monster project , maybe not 24/7 but 12/7 comes pretty close IT must hate me because old document control program was suddenly shut down , long live the new program , yeah oh dear... , new program is action based , sounds nice but sadly... well save that for another time. Anyways , it has been decided that button open document' is too dangerous from now on. So now we can check out document but have to search and open it by hand. To speed things up tried to find a faster way and decided to lay & hatch another egg. Dynamic Input (DIP) works like auto-complete when typing something in google. It doesn't use an edit_box but works kinda like grread but for dcl. I have included little test function (c:t1) . Just load my egg , euh , program and start typing something like "ansi" and see what happens (hopefully) Just one limitation , you cant use tab , space or enter which are used by dcl itself. So if you need a space type ' (quote character) Well even though its weekend , its back to work for me , I feel like a freeking cinderella pfff p.s. if any bugs please go via forum and don't PM me because have no time for private mail p.s.s input is a list and output is a list. What you do with this list is your own thing. ;;; DIP - Dynamic Input , Rlx Sep'23 ;;; sort of (grread) for dcl with exception for space, tab & enter which are reserved by dcl ;;; haven't (yet) found a way to catch character for space. ;;; So gonna use ' (quote) for space, not ideal but it is what it is (vl-load-com) (defun dip ( %lst / dip-list dip-width key-lst imb-str capslock bksp bksl qmrk eb-txt f p d r ib dialog-list drv lb-sel return-list) (setq dip-list %lst) ;;; make sure all elements are strings (setq dip-list (mapcar 'vl-princ-to-string dip-list)) ;;; find length of longest member (setq dip-width (car (vl-sort (mapcar 'strlen dip-list) '>))) ;;; create key codes (setq key-lst (vl-remove-if '(lambda (x)(member x '(34 92))) (append (gnum 33 95) (gnum 123 125)))) (setq imb-str ":image_button {color=dialog_background;width=0.1;height=0.1;fixed_height=true;key=\"ib_") ;;; see if acet-sys-keystate function is available (setq capslock (member 'acet-sys-keystate (atoms-family 0)) eb-txt "" bksp (strcat ":image_button {color=dialog_background;width=0.1;height=0.1;" "fixed_height=true;key=\"ib_bksp\";label=\"&\010\";}") bksl (strcat ":image_button {mnemonic=\"\\\\\";color=dialog_background;width=0.1;" "height=0.1;fixed_height=true;key=\"ib_bksl\";label=\"&\\\\\";}") qmrk (strcat ":image_button {mnemonic=\"\\\"\";color=dialog_background;width=0.1;" "height=0.1;fixed_height=true;key=\"ib_qmrk\";label=\"&\\\"\";}") ) (and (setq p (open (setq f (vl-filename-mktemp ".dcl")) "w")) (mapcar '(lambda (x) (write-line x p)) (append (list "dip:dialog {label=\"DIP - Dynamic Input (Rlx Sep'23)\";:row {") (crim) (list bksp bksl qmrk "}") (list ":image_button {color=141;height=1;fixed_height=true;key=\"ib_ib\";}" ":text_part {key=\"tp\";height=1;width=40;}" ) (list (strcat ":list_box {height=25;width=" (itoa (fix (* dip-width 0.75))) ";key=\"lb\";multiple_select=true;}") "ok_cancel;" "}") ) ) (not (setq p (close p))) (< 0 (setq d (load_dialog f))) (new_dialog "dip" d) (progn (upd_lbox) (action_tile "ib_bksp" "(upd_txtp $key)") (action_tile "ib_bksl" "(upd_txtp $key)") (action_tile "ib_qmrk" "(upd_txtp $key)") (stim) (action_tile "lb" "(setq lb-sel $value)") (action_tile "accept" "(done_dialog 1)") (action_tile "cancel" "(done_dialog 0)") (setq drv (start_dialog)) (unload_dialog d) (vl-file-delete f) ) ) (cond ((= drv 0)) ((= drv 1) (cond ((and (boundp lb-sel) (vl-consp dialog-list)) (setq return-list (mapcar '(lambda (x)(nth (atoi x) dialog-list)) (SplitStr lb-sel "")))) ((vl-consp dialog-list) (setq return-list dialog-list)) (t (setq return-list nil)) ) ) (t (setq return-list nil)) ) return-list ) ;;; create image_buttons : (setq lst (gimb)) (defun crim () (mapcar '(lambda (x)(strcat imb-str (chr x) "\";label=\"&" (chr x) "\";}")) key-lst)) ;;; start image_buttons (defun stim () (foreach x key-lst (action_tile (strcat "ib_" (chr x)) "(upd_txtp $key)"))) ;;; update edit_box , k = key (ib_$) (defun upd_txtp ( k / s l) (cond ;;; backspace ((and (eq k "ib_bksp") (> (setq l (strlen eb-txt)) 1)) (setq eb-txt (substr eb-txt 1 (1- l)))) ;;; backslash ((eq k "ib_bksl") (setq eb-txt (strcat eb-txt "\\"))) ;;; quotation mark ((eq k "ib_qmrk") (setq eb-txt (strcat eb-txt "\""))) ;;; use ' for space ((eq k "ib_'") (setq eb-txt (strcat eb-txt " "))) (t (setq eb-txt (strcat eb-txt (case (substr k 4))))) ) (if (wcmatch (strcase eb-txt t) "*bksp")(setq eb-txt "")) (start_image "ib_ib") (fill_image 0 0 (dimx_tile "ib_ib") (dimy_tile "ib_ib") 141) (end_image) (set_tile "ib_ib" eb-txt) (mode_tile k 2) (upd_lbox) ) (defun upd_lbox ( / filter) (if (not (vl-consp dip-list)) (setq dip-list '("void"))) (cond ((= eb-txt "") (setq dialog-list dip-list)) (t (setq filter (strcat "*" eb-txt "*")) (setq dialog-list (vl-remove-if-not '(lambda (x)(wcmatch (strcase x) (strcase filter))) dip-list)) ) ) (start_list "lb") (mapcar 'add_list dialog-list) (end_list) (set_tile "tp" (strcat " selected " (itoa (length dialog-list)) " of " (itoa (length dip-list)))) ) ;;; helper functions ;;; determine status caps lock for when typing filter (even though filter uses strcase) (defun case (s) (cond ((null s) "") ((not (eq (type s) 'STR)) "") ((null capslock) s) (t (if (= (acet-sys-keystate 20) 0) (strcase s t) (strcase s))))) ;;; generate number (gnum 1 5) -> '(1 2 3 4 5) (defun gnum (s e / i l) (and (numberp s)(numberp e)(setq i s)(while (<= i e)(setq l (cons i l) i (1+ i)))) (reverse l)) ; (SplitStr "a,b" ",") -> ("a" "b") (defun SplitStr (s d / p) (if (setq p (vl-string-search d s))(cons (substr s 1 p)(SplitStr (substr s (+ p 1 (strlen d))) d))(list s))) ;;; d = directory , e = extension like "*.dwg" , f = flag include subfolders (any value or nil) (defun alf (d e f) (setq d (vl-string-right-trim "/" (vl-string-translate "\\" "/" d))) (if f (apply 'append (cons (if (vl-directory-files d e)(mapcar '(lambda (x) (strcat d "/" x)) (vl-directory-files d e))) (mapcar '(lambda (x) (alf (strcat d "/" x) e f))(vl-remove ".." (vl-remove "." (vl-directory-files d nil -1)))))) (mapcar '(lambda (x) (strcat d "/" x))(vl-directory-files d e 1)))) ;;; test function (defun c:t1 () (setq lst (dip (alf (car (fnsplitl (findfile "acad.exe"))) "*.dwg" t))))

Oh, you are correct. Not sure why it got stuck in my head square brackets where default value...mixed it with system console prompt I guess...

@vanowm FWIW - Look at Autocad's general options on the command line for a typical command like COPY: Specify base point or [Displacement/mOde] <Displacement>: "[ ]" are always around the option keywords. "< >" are always around the default option. Capital letters are the mnemonic letter for the option keyword. I always stick to that when making my command prompts.

Lee Mac you are amazing: your routines contemplate every possible problem! Thank you for existing!

First of all Thanks for posting another code The 1st code stopped working today suddenly without any reason .. I don't know why !! But your code is working like a charm ... Thank you very much for your help.

Thanx for reminding me again to this program Bigal but I can't install anything on work computer. PC (laptop) is scanned continuously, it sounds like a vacuum cleaner because of all the scanning going on. AutoCad (cloud based) crashes a few times a day , I suspect due to this scanning because most cpu time is used up by this process. I only find comfort in the fact all my colleagues suffer with me haha

Glad to help, Ogopogo! That's why we are here: to share ideas and to help each others. Have a nice day!