Close Command

[Xolo]

Anyone know the answer to this one?

I'm creating a toolbar button that will plot out drawings to a selected paper size and then close the drawing without saving it. However, the problem I'm coming up with is that every time it closes a drawing, it asks if I want to save it. I thought that this would work;

^C^C-plot;y;;DesignJet 430 C4713A CAD.pc3;ANSI B (17.00 x 11.00 Inches);Inches;Landscape;n;Extents;Fit;Center;y;MFL Standard Plot Style.ctb;y;n;n;n;y;_Close;n

But the n at the end does nothing. Is there a different command other than close that will allow me to do this? I've forgotten something small.

Thanks for the help in advance,

Xolo

 

[ECCAD]

You working with SDI 1 or SDI 0 ?

 

[ECCAD]

You might want to change the _close;n; to:
_qsave;_close;
Shouldn't harm anything, since it was saved / not changed anyway.
Bob

 

[Mark Propst]

Xolo,
you might look into this...maybe it can help
quote from acad2002 readme.hlp:
New functions provided to prevent a document from being marked "Updated"

Two new functions, acad-push-dbmod and acad-pop-dbmod, can be used to suspend and resume the $DBMOD recording mechanism that AutoCAD uses to track changes to a drawing. These functions allow applications to make changes to a document as part of their initialization process without setting flags in $DBMOD and triggering unwanted save drawing queries.

(acad-push-dbmod) pushes the current value of the $DBMOD system variable for the document onto an internal stack. The function always returns T.

(acad-pop-dbmod) restores the value of $DBMOD to the most recently pushed value on the document's internal stack. The function returns T for a successful stack pop and nil if the stack is empty.

The acad-push-dbmod and acad-pop-dbmod functions are implemented in acadapp.arx, which is loaded by default on AutoCAD startup, but can be disabled, if desired. To use the new functions, precede program actions that should not affect the value of $DBMOD with calls to push the $DBMOD value, then pop the value after performing the action. Here is a simple LISP example:

(acad-push-dbmod)
(setq new_line '((0 . "LINE") (100 . "AcDbEntity") (8 . "0") (100 . "AcDbLine") (10 1.0 2.0 0.0) (11 2.0 1.0 0.0) (210 0.0 0.0 1.0))) (entmake new_line) ; Sets $DBMOD 1 flag (command "_color" "2") ; Sets $DBMOD 4 flag (command "_-vports" "_SI") ; Sets $DBMOD 8 flag (command "_vpoint" "0,0,1") ; Sets $DBMMOD 16 flag (acad-pop-dbmod) ; $DBMOD will again have the same value it had before ; the call to acad-push-dbmod end quote hth Mark

ECCAD,

I'm trying not to save as I don't want it showing up as being saved at a later date than when the files were saved originally.

And what do you mean
"You working with SDI 1 or SDI 0 ?"?

single document interface (as opposed to multiple document interface - MDI)

 

[Joe Burke]

Hi Mark,

That's interesting. Thanks for the pointer.

Joe Burke