It really bites,

I wrote a custom app for a company and had to scrap VFP because of that, and you can't show a form from a VFP DLL. My app is started from Acad and uses a vb dll to show the forms and manipulate the drawing based on data the user enters.


>I've actually been trying this for a couple of years too.
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>I am not a VB programmer so I have been using AutoCAD VBA SetCommand(), which is similar to KEYBOARD in vfp. But this is very slow. This has not been a problem since most of what I have been doing so far is batch type work. However I am now facing interactive work and feel the need for speed.
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>Thanks
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>>Hi Don,
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>>I've never been able to get that to work and I've tried many, many different ways. Acad just doesn't like the way vfp passes arrays to COM Objects.
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>>The only work around that I've seen is to create a vb dll to do what you want and call that. Sorry.
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>>>To All,
>>>
>>>I am attempting to pass an array of doubles to a VBA method in AutoCAD.
>>>
>>>The documentation says the array is :
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>>>"Variant (three-element array of doubles); input-only
>>>The 3D WCS coordinates specifying the line start point."
>>>