What is the acvba.arx file in 2005 - Auto Start VBA - acad.rx, acadvba.arx

There are some old post and support notes to add the line:

acaddvba.arx

to acad.rx in pre 2004 and acvba.arx in 2004. This should auto-start
AutoCAD VBA.

Now in 2005 I can only find acvba.arx but when opened with note pad it
looks like a non ASCII file.

Any way to get VBA started without using the startup suite? Or any way
to get something added to the startup suite in a .msi file for network
deployment? The startup suite works fine but can't seem to figure out
how to add this to a deployment using the network deployment wizard.

-John

 

You can't edit it, its a compiled C++ file. Just add the word acvba.arx to
a blank text file and name it acad.rx. Now the vba environment will
automatically initialize. But that doesn't run anything automatically - you
need to write code for that.

-- Mike
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Mike Tuersley
CADalyst's CAD Clinic
Rand IMAGINiT Technologies
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Confirmed that works. We actually had a acad.rx file that was used for
version 2002 but you need to use the new text line of acvba.arx for 2005.

It was acadvba.arx in 2002.

Many thanks!!!

-John

 

I don't think you need this anymore. Wasn't this functionality changed
in 2004 to remove this requirement? As long as you have an acad.dvb
file in a support path, it will load automatically. At least, that
works for me.

Hope that helps,
Danny Polkinhorn
WATG
Honolulu

 

No it seams to "load" but doesn't activate the VBA untill you issure
VBARUN or type alt+F8.
-John

 

John,

You'll need a Public Sub called "AcadStartup" in your acad.dvb

Public Sub AcadStartup()
'your code here
MsgBox ThisDrawing.Name
End Sub

Hope that helps,
-Danny