Vla-get-promptstring (?)

[ollie]

Hi All

 

I am trying to use the vla-get-promptstring for an attribute definition

 

;vlax-safearray->list (getattribute) method

 

However the response i recieve is

 

error: ActiveX Server returned the error: unknown name:

 

Any thoughts

 

Cheers

Ollie

[Lee Mac]

You will have to approach it this way Ollie to get the Prompt String:

 

(defun getpmt (blk)
 (if (tblsearch "BLOCK" blk)
   (vlax-for Obj (vla-item
                   (vla-get-Blocks
                     (vla-get-Activedocument
                       (vlax-get-acad-object))) blk)
     (if (eq "AcDbAttributeDefinition"
             (vla-get-ObjectName Obj))
       (setq pmt (vla-get-PromptString Obj)))))
 pmt)

[ollie]

Once again Lee thanks.

 

Can't believe how complicated that is in comparison to the grab properties for the other members

 

Ollie

[Lee Mac]

No problem Ollie.

 

Bear in mind that the above will cycle through every attribute definition (if there is more than one) - and so you may need to filter it for attribute tagstring also.

 

Lee