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Tailoring AutoLISP - DCL -Diesel is a the companion ebook to Tailoring AutoCAD. It's for all users of AutoCAD, from Release 13 through to 2008, who want to learn about AutoLISP, DCL, Diesel, and scripts. The 180-page e-book is shows you how to use these AutoCAD programming:
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Dynamic Blocks US$9.90 feedback I welcome your feedback for correcting and improving the text. Send your email to editor @ upfrontezine . com table of contents (Note: Chapters 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, and 8 appeared previously in Tailoring AutoCAD 2006.) Part I - AutoLISP chapter 1 — introduction to autolisp A Brief History of AutoLISP, Starting AutoLISP: Adding Two Numbers, AutoLISP in Commands, Remembering the Result: SetQ, Guided Tour of AutoLISP Functions, Math Functions, Geometric Functions, Conditional Functions, String and Conversion Functions, External Command Functions, Accessing System Variables, GetXXX Functions, Selection Set Functions, Object Manipulation Functions, Advanced AutoLISP Functions chapter 2 — your first autolisp program Why Write Programs?, The Id Command, Planning the Attack, Obtaining the Coordinates, Placing the Text, Putting Them Together, An Alternative to LISP Programming, Sprucing Up Code, Conquering Feature Bloat, Wishlist Item #1: Naming AutoLISP Programs, Wishlist Item #2: Saving AutoLISP Programs to Disk, Wishlist Item #3: Automatically Loading AutoLISP Programs, Wishlist #4: Using Car and Cdr, Saving Data to Files, Three Steps to Writing Data Files, Step 1: Opening Files, Step 2: Writing Data to Files, Step 3: Closing Files, Putting It Together, Wishlist #5: Specifying Layers, Wishlist #6: Setting the Text Style chapter 3 — concise lisp function reference AutoLISP Functions, Others, Constant, VisualLisp Functions, VisualLISP/ActiveX Functions, VisualLIPS Reactor Functions Part II - Dialog Control Language chapter 4 — introduction to dcl History of DCL, What Dialog Boxes Are Made Of, Your First DCL File, DCL Programming Structure, Start Dialog Box Definition, Dialog Box Title, OK Button, Basic LISP Code to Load and Run Dialog Boxes, Testing the DCL Code, Displaying System Variable Data, Adding the Complimentary LISP Code, Clustering Text, Supplying the Variable Text, Leaving Room for Variable Text, Fixing the Button Width, Centering the Button, Testing the Dialog Box, Defining the Command Examples of DCL Coding, Buttons, Making Buttons Work, Check Boxes, Radio Buttons, Clusters, Columns and Rows, Boxed Row, Boxed Row with Label, Special Tiles for Radio Buttons Debugging DCL, Dcl_Settings, DCL Error Messages, Semantic error(s) is DCL file, Dialog has neither an OK nor a CANCEL button, Error in dialog file "filename.dcl", line n, Dialog too large to fit on screen, Additional Resources chapter 5 — dcl reference Alphabetical Summary of DCL Tiles, Alphabetical Summary of DCL Attributes, Tile Reference, Dialog, Name, Label, Initial Focus, Key, Exiting Dialog Boxes, Button, Label, Mnemonic , Action, Key, Is_Cancel, Is_Default, Is_Enable, Is_Tab_Stop, Width & Height, Fixed_Height & Fixed_Width, Alignment, Prefabricated Button Assemblies, Ok_Only, Ok_Cancel, Ok_Cancel_Help, Ok_Cancel_Help_Errtile, Ok_Cancel_Help_Info, Radio_Button, Label, Value, Multiple Radio Buttons, Toggle, Label, Value, Other Attributes, Image_Button, Key, Aspect_Ratio, Height, & Width , Color, Edit_Box, Label, Mnemonic , Value, Password_Char, Fixed_Width_Font, Edit_Limit, Edit_Width, Other Attributes, List_Box, List, Tabs, Tab_Truncate, Fixed_Width_Font, Value, Multiple_Select, Height, Width, Other Attributes, Popup_List, Label, Mnemonic, List, Tabs, Tab_Truncate, Value , Other Attributes, Slider, Label & Mnemonic , Layout, Max_Value , Min_Value, Big_Increment, Small_Increment, Value, Height, Width, Fixed_Height & Fixed Width, Alignment, Text, Label, Value, is_bold, height & width, Fixed_Height & Fixed Width, Alignment, Text_Part, Concatenation, Paragraph, Errtile, Spacer, Spacer_0, Spacer_1, Image, Key, Value and Mnemonic , Color , Aspect_Ratio, Height, & Width , Column, Label, Height & Width, Children_Fixed_Height, Children_Fixed_Width, & Children_Alignment, Boxed_Column, Radio-Column & Boxed_Radio_Column, Value, Row & Boxed_Row, Other Attributes, Radio_Row & Boxed_Radio_Row, Value, Base.Dcl, Normal Default Widget, Styles of Clusters, Styles of Radio Clusters, Horizontal and Vertical Blocks of Running Text, Pre-built Arrays of Dialog Buttons, Top and Bottom Subassemblies, Color Selection, Common Spacers, Dialog Retirement Buttons, Audit Level, Error Reporting Tiles, Miscellaneous , Primitive Widgets, Acad.Dcl AutoLISP Functions for Dialog Boxes, Alphabetical List of AutoLISP Functions for Dialog Boxes, Dialog Boxes Displayed by AutoLISP Functions, Load_Dialog, New_Dialog, Start_Dialog, Done_Dialog, Term_Dialog, Unload_Dialog, Get_Tile, Set_Tile, Get_Attr, Mode_Tile, Action_Tile, Client_Data_Tile, Start_List, Add_List, End_List, Start_Image, Slide_Image, Fill_Image, Vector_Image, DimX_Tile & DimY_Tile, End_Image, Dialog Boxes Displayed by AutoLISP Functions, Alert, Help, Acad_HelpDlg, AcadColorDlg, Acad_TrueColorDlg, InitDia Part III - Diesel chapter 6 — introduction to diesel Is Diesel a Programming Language? , The History of Diesel, What Diesel Does, Concise List of Diesel Functions, Math Functions, Logic Functions, Numeric Conversion Functions, String (Text) Functions, System Functions, ModeMacro: Displaying Text on the Status Bar, Reporting Values of System Variables , Error Messages, $? , $(functionName)?? , $(functionName,??) , $(++) , Debugging Diesel, Using Variables Diesel Functions, Math Functions, + (Addition), - (Subtraction), * (Multiplication), / (Division), Logic Functions, = (Equal), < (Less than), > (Greater Than), != (Not Equal), <= (Less Than or Equal), >= (Greater Than or Equal), and (Logical Bitwise AND), eq, if, or (Logical Bitwise Or), xor (Logical Bitwise Xor), Conversion Functions, angtos, fix, rtos, String Functions, index, nth, strlen, substr, upper, System Functions, edtime, eval, getenv, getvar, linelen, Diesel Programming Tips
chapter 7 — diesel in menus and lisp Parsing the Name Macro, $(if, ... !.), $(eq, ... 1),, $(getvar,attmode),, &Normal, Parsing Diesel in Macros, Bitcode Macros, Diesel in AutoLISP, Via the Setvar Function, Concatenate Two Diesel Strings, Via the MenuCmd Function Part IV - Scripts chapter 8 — scripts (No Appendices) |
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