Activating Layer States Manager with Lisp?

[simonb]

Does anyone know if it's possible to activate the standard AutoCAD 2002 save and restore layer states manager dialog(s) using a lisp routine?? Also, is there a layer states manager routine available that will work on Xrefs? (Visretain to 0 then back to 1 doesn't do what i need, i.e. retain layer states in the parent dwg)

 

[liftedaxis]

I ended up doing it another way. found you can fire the -lman command, but it won't fire from Lisp. so i create a script file on the fly, and then fire this script file (which works, but it must be the last thing your Lisp function does). my temp.scr file looks like:
-lman
i
<layerstate filepath>
r
<layerstate name>

may be a little unattractive, but it works.

--Jeremiah

 

[James Buzbee]

Yes.

I have all the companies layers, and layer states saved in a drawing located on the server. I have an app that lets users "read" in layer states - basically the app compares two lists and sets the layer in the active drawing based oon the satae of the layers in the "database" drawing ( because if you import a layer state it will create the layers that aren't there - which sucks.) So, the app uses ObjectDBX to "open" the database drawing then uses an interface with the LayerStates Manager Object to restore a selected layer state, then creates a list of all the layers and thier states, creates a corresponding list of the layers in the active document, then changes the layers in the active document to match.

So you'll need to look into:
ObjectDBX
the LayerState manager object
a dialog for selecting layer states
an engine for manipulating layers in the active document.

jb

 

[James Buzbee]

but it won't fire from Lisp

sure it will:

(c:-lman)

jb