Loading VLX from the registry
Art Mahanna
remaining autolisp routines. I have used visual lisp for R14 to compile the
lisp program and dcl file into an arx file and visual lisp for 2000 to
compile the same program into a vlx file because the arx option is no longer
available. Both versions load and function properly using "Load
Applications".
I then created windows registry entries under apps and autodeskapps to
automatically load the arx files in both R14 and 2000, this will not work
for the vlx file. It also does not appear to work in an acad.rx file and I
would prefer to avoid this method anyway. I searched all the messages in
this newsgroup and could find no references to this issue. I've also
briefly scanned help and objectarx 2000 help for references to vlx, but
again nothing useful popped up. Any help is appreciated even if its just
guidance to the appropriate documentation.
Owen Wengerd
>I then created windows registry entries under apps and autodeskapps to
>automatically load the arx files in both R14 and 2000, this will not work
>for the vlx file.
In R15 you'll have to load the VLX yourself from one of your ARX modules.
You can find an example in this newsgroup in a post by Robert Albert about 4
or 5 months ago. You can search for messages containing the word "VLXLOAD"
using the discussion group search engine on the Autodesk web site. :)
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stephen r. hitchcox
If I understand your problem, is it that you cannot find your file? There is a
solution on X-arch (reini) where you
put a proper ARX dummy program named the same as your VLX in to your target
directory, and put it (the ARX) in the registry. Then you can find the path to
your ARX dum dum file and load up your real, functional, non-VB, non C++ lisp
file. (can you tell that I prefer lisp?: a new "feature for Acad 16" harkens)
S. R. Hitchcox
Art Mahanna wrote:
> Our company is about to release a software upgrade in objectarx with a few
> remaining autolisp routines. I have used visual lisp for R14 to compile the
> lisp program and dcl file into an arx file and visual lisp for 2000 to
> compile the same program into a vlx file because the arx option is no longer
> available. Both versions load and function properly using "Load
> Applications".
>
> I then created windows registry entries under apps and autodeskapps to
> automatically load the arx files in both R14 and 2000, this will not work
Art Mahanna
Actually I was more interested in R14 vlx or lisp arx. In R15 I found that
simply using the old autolisp "load" command inside the mnl file is much
simpler than worrying about registry entries. Strange that the "Load"
command will now load vlx files, but didn't in R14.
Art
Owen Wengerd wrote in message <807rra$3m...@adesknews2.autodesk.com>...
>Art:
>
>>I then created windows registry entries under apps and autodeskapps to
>>automatically load the arx files in both R14 and 2000, this will not work
>>for the vlx file.
>
Art Mahanna
load it. I would imagine that this is related to the fact that the arx
command will not load a vlx file in R14 or R15, but the load applications
option on the menu works fine. They must be using some other method for
loading vlx's in R14. In R15 the old lisp "Load" command actually works on
vlx files (See my response to Owen in this same group).
Art
stephen r. hitchcox wrote in message <38279A1F...@ica.net>...
>Take a look at Reini Urban's site.
>
>If I understand your problem, is it that you cannot find your file? There
is a
>solution on X-arch (reini) where you
>put a proper ARX dummy program named the same as your VLX in to your target
>directory, and put it (the ARX) in the registry. Then you can find the
path to
>your ARX dum dum file and load up your real, functional, non-VB, non C++
lisp
>file. (can you tell that I prefer lisp?: a new "feature for Acad 16"
harkens)
>
>S. R. Hitchcox
>
>Art Mahanna wrote:
>
>> Our company is about to release a software upgrade in objectarx with a
few
>> remaining autolisp routines. I have used visual lisp for R14 to compile
the
>> lisp program and dcl file into an arx file and visual lisp for 2000 to
>> compile the same program into a vlx file because the arx option is no
longer
>> available. Both versions load and function properly using "Load
>> Applications".
>>
>> I then created windows registry entries under apps and autodeskapps to
>> automatically load the arx files in both R14 and 2000, this will not work
Jon Fleming
> Strange that the "Load"
> command will now load vlx files, but didn't in R14.
Not very strange. In R14, the AutoLISP interpreter was the old
Autodesk one, and it didn't know from VLX. In AutoCAD 2000, the old
Autodesk interpreter has been discarded and replaced by the Visual LISP
system. Visual LISP understands VLX ...
jrf
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