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Hello,
I know i have seen this somewhere..
How to temporarily close the user form and allow the user to pan and
zoom and then hit return to get the program back?

thanks in advance for any response
jm

 

Form1.Hide 'Hide user form to allow user to get input from Acad Editor

Dim pt As Variant

pt=ThisDrawing.Utility.GetPoint(, vbCr + "Pick a point: " )

Form1.Show 'Show user form or do futher process based on user input

 

I guess i asked the wrong question.
what i really want to do is to interface with autocad with the window still
open!
but thanks

 

Basically, VBA's UserForm is displayed as modal form (i.e. dialog box), when
it is displayed, you cannot interact with Acad unless you hide it or unload
it. Using UserForm.Hide() and UserForm.Show is standard way to interact Acad
during a VBA process.

However, since Acad2Ki, you can open a UserForm as modeless window (but it
was useless in Acas2Ki because it does not keep focus on itself ). Acad2002
or later comes a file "AcFocusCtrl" that helps to keep focus on the form, so
that you can keep the UserForm open while do something in ACAD. Search the
group with keyword "focus", you may get a few posts on this topic.