esc in script?

[jtt]

It may be very simple. But I'm new to using script files.
I would like to know how to end a repeating command. <Spacebar> won't work in the script as follows:

multiple
-insert
<<block name>>
x1,y1,z1 1 1 0
x2,y2,z2 1 1 0
etc.

I want to end the insert command here, so that I can add a new command.

 

[cadkid]

Scripts are only tricky in the amount of hard returns that are needed. Here is a sample script for inserting two blocks.
-insert
c:\dwg\first_block.dwg
0,0



-insert
c:\dwg\second_block.dwg
100,100




previous line ended script
Hope this helps

 

[pardal]

After about 10 years using ACAD since ver 2 , last week I discover that you can do the same that the ESC key
just typing (command) at the command line or at a script line , or as a LISP instruction, with the () included.
I put it on a menu icon so I do not need tto use my left hand. You can reach me at k281969@hotmail.com
but keep your post here for mutual benefits.
Pardal

 

[jtt]

Hi Pardal,
That is the sort of information we should get from AutoCad online help.
Thanks a lot,
Jtt

 

[pardal]

Hi JTT:

Once my plant design professor told me:

Books are not slaves, they are our friend and one should treat so.

I got this tip reading, reading, and reading.

You can reach me at k281969@hotmail.com
but keep your post here for mutual benefits.
Pardal

 

[CarlB]

I found this related tip by surfing and reading .
Carl


For scripts use this workaround by defining (cancel) in lisp, simply
(defun SCRIPT-CANCEL ()
(command)
(command &quot;resume&quot
)
and in a SCRIPT.SCR:
..
[<script commands>]
(script-cancel)
[<more script commands>]
..

 

[jtt]

Hi Pardal and Carl,
I've been using transparent commands to avoid this problem (and/or by using Excel functions). But, of course, some commands cannot be transparent, and that still gave me some problem. Now, you have solved it.
I started using script files only since February this year, and I owe that to a Carl B. Is this the same Carl B?
Thank you very much.

 

[pardal]

Hi JTT:

My first job in ACAD was on 1991 under Release 2.16, in DOS
, ambar phopor 14&quot; Monitor, runing at a XT .
By that time I bougth my first mouse for $50 .
The task was to drw neighborhood blocks for a Gas company.
It was a mountain city so many were unregular poligon shape
and runing LOTUS 123 , I learn to do SCRIPTS, and furthermore than LISP is a powerfull tool for many case SCRIPT do it's work well done.

You can reach me at k281969@hotmail.com
but keep your post here for mutual benefits.
Pardal