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I wonder what HP can do to your Canon printer, Christiaan!

Right. OK. I see, I see. Now I see. I think I'll stay with classic dialogs. This one (27 text fields) would have taken me at max 15 minutes to create and any change of sequence or similar a couple of minutes.

SETFIRSTLAYOUTITEM(dialog, 101); {labels 1 } SETBELOWITEM(dialog, 101, 102, 0, 2); SETBELOWITEM(dialog, 102, 103, 0, 2); SETBELOWITEM(dialog, 103, 104, 0, 2); SETBELOWITEM(dialog, 104, 105, 0, 2); SETBELOWITEM(dialog, 105, 106, 0, 2); SETBELOWITEM(dialog, 106, 107, 0, 2); SETBELOWITEM(dialog, 107, 108, 0, 2); SETBELOWITEM(dialog, 108, 109, 0, 2); SETBELOWITEM(dialog, 109, 110, 0, 2); SETBELOWITEM(dialog, 110, 111, 0, 2); SETBELOWITEM(dialog, 111, 112, 0, 2); SETBELOWITEM(dialog, 112, 113, 0, 2); SETBELOWITEM(dialog, 113, 114, 0, 2); SETBELOWITEM(dialog, 114, 115, 0, 2); SETBELOWITEM(dialog, 115, 116, 0, 2); {fields 1 } SETRIGHTITEM(dialog, 101, 201, 2, 0); SETRIGHTITEM(dialog, 102, 202, 2, 0); SETRIGHTITEM(dialog, 103, 203, 2, 0); SETRIGHTITEM(dialog, 104, 204, 2, 0); SETRIGHTITEM(dialog, 105, 205, 2, 0); SETRIGHTITEM(dialog, 106, 206, 2, 0); SETRIGHTITEM(dialog, 107, 207, 2, 0); SETRIGHTITEM(dialog, 108, 208, 2, 0); SETRIGHTITEM(dialog, 109, 209, 2, 0); SETRIGHTITEM(dialog, 110, 210, 2, 0); SETRIGHTITEM(dialog, 111, 211, 2, 0); SETRIGHTITEM(dialog, 112, 212, 2, 0); SETRIGHTITEM(dialog, 113, 213, 2, 0); SETRIGHTITEM(dialog, 114, 214, 2, 0); SETRIGHTITEM(dialog, 115, 215, 2, 0); SETRIGHTITEM(dialog, 116, 216, 2, 0); {labels 2 } SETRIGHTITEM(dialog, 202, 117, 2, 0); SETBELOWITEM(dialog, 117, 118, 0, 2); SETBELOWITEM(dialog, 118, 119, 0, 2); SETBELOWITEM(dialog, 119, 120, 0, 2); SETBELOWITEM(dialog, 120, 121, 0, 2); SETBELOWITEM(dialog, 121, 122, 0, 2); SETBELOWITEM(dialog, 122, 123, 0, 2); SETBELOWITEM(dialog, 123, 124, 0, 2); SETBELOWITEM(dialog, 124, 125, 0, 2); SETBELOWITEM(dialog, 125, 126, 0, 2); SETBELOWITEM(dialog, 126, 127, 0, 2); SETBELOWITEM(dialog, 127, 128, 0, 2); {fields 2 } SETRIGHTITEM(dialog, 117, 217, 2, 0); SETRIGHTITEM(dialog, 118, 218, 2, 0); SETRIGHTITEM(dialog, 119, 219, 2, 0); SETRIGHTITEM(dialog, 120, 220, 2, 0); SETRIGHTITEM(dialog, 121, 221, 2, 0); SETRIGHTITEM(dialog, 122, 222, 2, 0); SETRIGHTITEM(dialog, 123, 223, 2, 0); SETRIGHTITEM(dialog, 124, 224, 2, 0); SETRIGHTITEM(dialog, 125, 225, 2, 0); SETRIGHTITEM(dialog, 126, 226, 2, 0); SETRIGHTITEM(dialog, 127, 227, 2, 0); SETRIGHTITEM(dialog, 128, 228, 2, 0); { the funky stuff: replaced by the above section } { SETRIGHTITEM(dialog, 117, 217, 2, 0); SETBELOWITEM(dialog, 217, 218, 2, 0); SETBELOWITEM(dialog, 218, 219, 2, 0); SETBELOWITEM(dialog, 219, 220, 2, 0); SETBELOWITEM(dialog, 220, 221, 2, 0); SETBELOWITEM(dialog, 221, 222, 2, 0); SETBELOWITEM(dialog, 222, 223, 2, 0); SETBELOWITEM(dialog, 223, 224, 0, 2); SETBELOWITEM(dialog, 224, 225, 0, 2); SETBELOWITEM(dialog, 225, 226, 0, 2); SETBELOWITEM(dialog, 226, 227, 0, 2); SETBELOWITEM(dialog, 227, 228, 0, 2); }

I could, but in large organisations with mere mortals as users this just does not work. If they'd be on the Mac platform, I could use FileMaker Pro to pull the data, but they're usually on the Dark Side.

I smoke only normal cigarettes, but I still see funny things!

Of course, but that does not make any difference. It works when it wants to work, which is not often. Some correlation with file size & complexity, I think, and a couple of restarts of VW sometimes cures the situation for a while.

Still does not work here... No perpedincular constraint, flaky bisectors. VWD 2009/2, Mac OS X 10.5.6

Does anyone have a mechanism or a workable procedure for generating a drawing register from multiple files? (No, it is not possible to use only one VW file.) In the good old days, before sheet layers, this was possible (not convenient nor particularly automatic, but nevertheless.) Since we can't (why, if I may ask?) reference sheet layers, data of title blocks (of symbol type) on those cannot be reported. At least I can't do it.

Yes, that's how it was once upon a time: one was indeed able to do pretty complex geometric constructions quite easily, but VW has progressed. NNA has licenced new technologies including the cutting-edge Fuzzy Geometry Library from Dementia Inc.

There are object snaps in VW 2009? I thought they were now obsolete...

Save as? OK. Get TextWrangler (1) & Orso B. Schmid's language module (2) to it. 1. Bare Bones Software 2. VectorLab

I do this all the time. OK, not all the time, but occasionally. I just have two copies of VW (application only, in the same folder.) Could it be that Windows does not allow it?

Indeed. The question was posed by a native of Taiwan... Instructions based on a McMansion (even the Canadian variety) can be pretty useless there. However, dear mr. iagea: your attitude earns you a permanent fail in all subjects. Your only chance of redemption is to become a Sensei. First, you have to acknowledge that all & any questions you had, were fallacies & figments of imagination.

So? Why don't you any more?

Buying a specialised rendering program with farming would also be a good starting point. (What? That costs money ? we did not want to spend any money...)

How about turning off Auto join walls?

What a country of squares!

I'd need to get the colorIndex of user-created hatches, ie. the background fill colour (if any). Can't find a relevant call or even an object variable from the VS documentation. PROCEDURE BeginVectorFillN ( VAR vectorFillName :STRING; pageSpace :BOOLEAN; rotateInWall :BOOLEAN; colorIndex :INTEGER ) ; In a test file, exported as VS, the colorIndex was 1237. I thought I might be able to check every object variable (int & longint) and find this value, but that did not work. Any ideas? PROCEDURE HatchColour; CONST testValue = 1237; VAR h : HANDLE; i, j : INTEGER; iL, jL : LONGINT; msg : STRING; BEGIN h := GETOBJECT('Name of the hatch'); FOR i := 1 TO 32535 DO BEGIN j := GETOBJECTVARIABLEINT(h, i); IF (j=testValue) THEN BEGIN msg := NUM2STR(0, j); ALRTDIALOG(msg); END; END; END; RUN(HatchColour);

Would be a nice feature, but does the actual competition allow this? ArchiCAD, AutoCAD, Revit etc. (Yes, I'm looking at the situation from a particular angle.) I have a farm of old computers processing SETI-data... The likelihood of finding extraterrestrial intelligent life seems to be much higher than finding terrestrial intelligent clients. http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/

Indeed. I might have checked the distance from the centre of every vertex and procrastinated about what to do if all distances are not equal but some are more equal than others. Move centre? Change radius? Raise the river? Lower the bridge? Mix, match & be confused about inches & millimetres? (Oh yes, that caused some problems in one engineering project a few years ago.)

Eg. find the centre, measure the diameter, draw an arc of 360?. Or just find the bounding box and draw the arc inside it.

If I had an existing script ?close enough? I might, but I don't and I can't really make custom tools for free. Sorry. Maybe someone else will help ? it is certainly doable.

I've been planning to write a script for this, but it's not a top priority. Maybe I can do something, but won't promise anything.

Doable with a script in VW. I know a way.

As comes to grouping everything with "Show, Snap, Modify Others", all objects will be moved to the currently active layer so you'll have another royal mess.