Load dvb project at startup

I wish to create a setup program that install a dvb application
(myprogram.dvb) at startup.

I have installed yet manually with Autocad menu => Tools/Load
applicacion/Startup suite
but now I wish to do it by an external application setup.exe (with Visual
Basic).

Thanks your interest

 

Why do you need to load it externally? How about loading at startup with
acad.lsp or acaddoc.lsp?

 

I need a setup up program wich make easy to "install" my application.

I don´t know nothing about lisp (I´m VB programer)

 

Its not hard. You don't really need to know lisp, since you're not doing
anything else but loading the dvb.

Acad.lsp is an ascii file you create. Autocad looks for it at startup and if
it finds it, runs it. Just open Notepad, add this code, and save it to a
support folder as "acad.lsp". Make sure it doesn't get saved as
'acad.lsp.txt'

****Paste code****
;;; loads visual lisp commands
(vl-load-com)
;;;Load your dvb, change the file path to suit your needs.
;;;Lisp strings require double backslashes. The first one is a control
character.
(vl-vbaload "c:\\folder\\filename.dvb")
****end code****

 

If you still want to do it from the vb project, the AcadApplication object
has LoadDVB and RunMacro methods.

 

Hi Jon,

Depending on what your program is actually doing, you may not want it to
load when AutoCAD runs, but only load when a user wants to use some
functionality from the program.

There is no point in writing any form of VB application to load it into
AutoCAD as there are several methods of doing this, none of which require a
separate program.

Ed Jobe has given you a simple method, the only area where I would change
Ed's idea, is by creating a menu file to run the functions in my program and
to place Ed's code in the MNL file for my menu.

This has the advantage that if the user has no need to load your program he
can unload the menu and your file wont be loaded in future.

It also occurs to me (and your post in not clear on this) that you want a
program to install your program on the computer. If this is the case then
look at Inno Setup, the cheapest (free) and easiest to use that I've found.

--


Laurie Comerford
CADApps
www.cadapps.com.au

 

Thanks to all (also Flemming Thorsager who has mentioned the manual
vbadev.pdf - chapter 11).

I´m testing these helfull ideas and I´m sure it will solve my question.

 

I wish to create a setup program that install a dvb application

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Autodesk\AutoCAD\R15.0\ACAD-1:409\Profiles\<<Unna
med Profile>>\Dialogs\Appload\Startup

Regards
Kuba