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Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Basic Customization
- Overview of Customization
- Organize Program and Support Files
- Customize a Publish to Web Template
- Define Custom Commands
- Record and Modify Action Macros
- Custom Linetypes
- Custom Hatch Patterns
- User Interface Customization
- Understand User Interface Customization
- Work with the Customize User Interface (CUI) Editor
- Create and Manage Customization Files
- Customize Commands
- Overview of Commands
- Create, Edit, and Reuse Commands
- Create Macros
- Overview of Macros
- Use Special Control Characters in Macros
- Pause for User Input in Macros
- Provide International Support in Macros
- Use Built-in Commands in Macros
- Repeat Commands in Macros
- Use Single Object Selection Mode in Macros
- Use Macros to Swap User Interface Elements
- Use Conditional Expressions in Macros
- Use AutoLISP in Macros
- Control the Display of Command Items
- Assign Search Tags
- Create Tooltips and Extended Help for Commands
- Create Status Line Help Messages
- Create and Manage Images for Commands
- Customize User Interface Elements
- Load an AutoLISP File
- Customize Workspaces
- Transfer and Migrate Customization
- Customize User Interface (CUI) Editor FAQs
- DIESEL
- Slides and Command Scripts
- Introduction to Programming Interfaces
- Shapes and Shape Fonts
- Overview of Shape Files
- Create Shape Definition Files
- Shape Descriptions
- Vector Length and Direction Code
- Special Codes
- Use Special Codes
- Codes 0, 1, and 2: End of Shape and Draw Mode Control
- Codes 3 and 4: Size Control
- Codes 5 and 6: Location Save/Restore
- Code 7: Subshape
- Codes 8 and 9: X-Y Displacements
- Code 00A: Octant Arc
- Code 00B: Fractional Arc
- Codes 00C and 00D: Bulge-Specified Arcs
- Code 00E: Flag Vertical Text Command
- Text Font Descriptions
- Sample Files
- Big Font Descriptions
- Unicode Font Descriptions
- Superscripts and Subscripts in SHX Files
- Migrate and Transfer Custom Settings and Files
- Index
To make the status line reflect the AutoCAD current state, enter macro
expressions using the DIESEL language in the following format:
$(somefun, arg1, arg2, ...)
In the macro expression, somefun is the name of the DIESEL function (similar
to an AutoLISP function name) and arg1, arg2, and so on, are arguments to
the function, interpreted according to the function's definition. Unlike
AutoLISP, DIESEL macro expressions have only one data type: strings. Macros
that operate on numbers express the numbers as strings and convert back and
forth as required.
For descriptions of the DIESEL functions, see
Catalog of DIESEL Functions on
page 396.
Now define a more interesting status line (for example, one that shows the
current text style name):
Command: modemacro
New value for MODEMACRO, or . for none <"">: Style: $(getvar, textstyle)
■ Style: is a text string to be displayed on the status line.
■ $(getvar,textstyle) is a DIESEL function (getvar) and argument that
retrieves the current value of the TEXTSTYLE system variable.
NOTE The examples in this topic may show the MODEMACRO string as more
than one line of text. You enter it as one long string at the prompt.
You can retrieve any system variable by entering $(getvar, varname). The
current setting of the system variable replaces the macro expression on the
status line. Then, when you switch text styles, for example, MODEMACRO is
reevaluated. If it changes, the new text style name is displayed on the status
line.
Expressions can be nested, and they can be as complex as you want. The
example that follows displays the current snap value and angle (in degrees)
in the status line. It uses nested expressions to convert the snap angle from
radians to degrees and truncates the value to an integer.
Command: modemacro
New value for MODEMACRO, or . for none <"">: Snap: $(getvar, snapunit)
$(fix,$(*,$(getvar,snapang),$(/,180,3.14159)))
You can also display the values in the current linear and angular units modes.
Command: modemacro
New value for MODEMACRO, or . for none <"">: Snap: $(rtos,$(index,0,
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