Dean McCarns
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Ok I'm about to line up these Reactors and send them to "More Trouble Than There Worth Heavin"!!!!!!!
Although reactors are a noble idea to make AutoCAD a more "object oriented" in nature I have to wonder if maybe there just too much trouble for there own good.
Maybe it's just that I am thicker in the head than most other people and the Reactor concept is just too far out there for me to grasp but maybe (just maybe) there are too many flawes in the idea for it to work properly outside ARX
Ok, this is what I have done and maybe someone out there (with more braincells than I - which is >1) can help me out. Now remember I have been using reactors pretty much forever (well since they were introduced anyway) but I find there lack of consistent expected performance to be somewhat "lacking".
I have created a utility that has the following functionality :
(defun c:TagMyDoor
(select the door)
(setq some of the door information)
(insert the tag block)
(edit the block attributes to match the door information) ;Now this is were I put my object reactor (setq dtagReactor (vlr-pers (vlr-object-reactor (list vDoor) dTag '(
vlr-modified . UpdateDoorTag))))) ;the (list vDoor) is the vla-object that is being taged ;the dTag is being passed as the data for the reactor (which is the vla-symbol of the block being used as the tag)
)
The call back function basically updates the block attributes of the dTag object identified in the data area of the reactor
So it works great when you add a new door and then tag it. I modify the door and the tag updates no problem. BUTTTTTTTT when I close the drawing and open it back up I get the fatal - error: bad argument type: VLReactor:
nil
You know, I thought making a reactor persistent ment that EVEN THOUGH I CLOSE THE DRAWING IT WILL REMAIN WITH THE OBJECT!!!!! Silly me, I thought thats why you used persistent object reactors!!!
Any help is appreciated.
P.S. Yes tried creating the reactor in a seperate namespace vlx
Thanks in advance.
Although reactors are a noble idea to make AutoCAD a more "object oriented" in nature I have to wonder if maybe there just too much trouble for there own good.
Maybe it's just that I am thicker in the head than most other people and the Reactor concept is just too far out there for me to grasp but maybe (just maybe) there are too many flawes in the idea for it to work properly outside ARX
Ok, this is what I have done and maybe someone out there (with more braincells than I - which is >1) can help me out. Now remember I have been using reactors pretty much forever (well since they were introduced anyway) but I find there lack of consistent expected performance to be somewhat "lacking".
I have created a utility that has the following functionality :
(defun c:TagMyDoor
(select the door)
(setq some of the door information)
(insert the tag block)
(edit the block attributes to match the door information) ;Now this is were I put my object reactor (setq dtagReactor (vlr-pers (vlr-object-reactor (list vDoor) dTag '(
vlr-modified . UpdateDoorTag))))) ;the (list vDoor) is the vla-object that is being taged ;the dTag is being passed as the data for the reactor (which is the vla-symbol of the block being used as the tag))
The call back function basically updates the block attributes of the dTag object identified in the data area of the reactor
So it works great when you add a new door and then tag it. I modify the door and the tag updates no problem. BUTTTTTTTT when I close the drawing and open it back up I get the fatal - error: bad argument type: VLReactor:
nil
You know, I thought making a reactor persistent ment that EVEN THOUGH I CLOSE THE DRAWING IT WILL REMAIN WITH THE OBJECT!!!!! Silly me, I thought thats why you used persistent object reactors!!!
Any help is appreciated.
P.S. Yes tried creating the reactor in a seperate namespace vlx
Thanks in advance.
