#Text in status bar
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Gale – Thanks for the jump start. I tested the grtext in all of it's
optional modes. Unfortunately none of these are just what I'm looking for.
I've become acustom to working without the acad screen menu and find the
extra screen area useful. I also use the coordinates frequently as well as
the mode status area. What I'd really like to do is use the right hand
corner, like artist does for there dlp software. I could live without the
dl size.
What I'm putting up on the menu bar is my current osnap setting. I'm using
a lisp routine to set a running osnap until a new osnap is set. The
problem is I get going and don't always remember the last osnap that I
selected.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Dennis
Dennis,
I also like the extra screen area and haven't used a screen menu for a
couple of years.
On the osnap setting… in nearly all of my lisp routines I manage osnap
according to what I want to snap to and set it with (setvar "osmode" nn).
I've made a practice of (setvar "osmode" 0) immediately after I'm thru with
the picks. Leaving osnap "on" to *any* setting can produce some very
unexpected results.
The osnap 'overrides' work well in AutoLISP also, as in…
(command "line" "non" (polar pt1 pi 0.04) "non" (polar pt1 pi 0.875)"").
I have two routines that need "osmode" 32 on for one pick after another but
a little work has to be performed between picks. In the command above the
first point would definitely snap to "pt1" and the second would if the
display is zoomed out far enough.
I do have some menu picks that leave osnap "on" and I've included a command
in ACAD.LSP so I can turn them off with just "n".
Gale