CompuServe Messages

Brian – Thanks for your thoughts on this subject. I suspect we'll just sit back and compile them, and see if a consensus emerges. In the beginning, PLOT was a totally separate program… then the Main Menu was developed to allow you to switch among the "separate" Drawing Editor, Configurator, Plot, and Prplot programs. PLOT from within the Drawing Editor has always exited from the Drawing Editor, done the plot, and restarted the Drawing Editor (thereby resetting the Undo file). That's also why AutoLISP doesn't run during a PLOT. With the demise of the Main Menu in R12, it may be possible for us to fix these things. Rather than *command* interception, I think we're converging toward an object/method-oriented approach, where applications will be able to receive notice of events taking place, and be able to patch themselves into the pipeline to deal with those events occurring to their objects/files. But don't expect that in R12.