Crd File informations(displaying as text)

[E. R. Adams]

Is there anyway to use Rtext to display the coordinate file that is attached
to a drawing similar to the way rtext displays the current drawing name? We
have a lot of jobs and coordinate files and it would be nice to able to pick
up a hardcopy and see the coordinate file that it is attached to without
having to open the file.

[Terry W. Dotson]

"E. R. Adams" wrote:

Is there anyway to use Rtext to display the coordinate file that is attached
to a drawing similar to the way rtext displays the current drawing name?

To my knowledge, Rtext does not have the ability to pick up lisp
variables, so I doubt it would work.

The LiveText functionality in ToolPac 7.0 will do this, using this
expression syntax ...

#LSTR[VAR,PRE,SUF]

.... which is Lisp String with the variable name and a prefix and
suffix. Since SurvCADD's Lisp variable for this is CRDFILE, then a full
expression might be ...

#LSTR[CRDFILE, Coordinate File:,]

.... and ideally would be linked to an attribute in a true title 'block'
(for later harvesting).

You will find more information on ToolPac 7.0 at
http://www.carlsonsw.com/toolpac.htm.

Thanks,

Terry W. Dotson
Carlson Software

[Cad Dept]

Terry, could you help out on me out on this. I couldn't find ToolPac on
your website google search I found Toolpac 8, is this the same thing?
but all I really want is the crd file displayed on the command line
area. I need to screen shot some distances from different crd files that
might have the same points and would like to know which crd file I'm
working with.

So is there an easy way of getting this info as it's displayed in the
title bar?

Thanks
Kris

Terry W. Dotson wrote:

"E. R. Adams" wrote:


Is there anyway to use Rtext to display the coordinate file that is attached
to a drawing similar to the way rtext displays the current drawing name?


To my knowledge, Rtext does not have the ability to pick up lisp
variables, so I doubt it would work.

The LiveText functionality in ToolPac 7.0 will do this, using this
expression syntax ...

#LSTR[VAR,PRE,SUF]

... which is Lisp String with the variable name and a prefix and
suffix. Since SurvCADD's Lisp variable for this is CRDFILE, then a full
expression might be ...

#LSTR[CRDFILE, Coordinate File:,]

... and ideally would be linked to an attribute in a true title 'block'
(for later harvesting).

You will find more information on ToolPac 7.0 at
http://www.carlsonsw.com/toolpac.htm.

Thanks,

Terry W. Dotson
Carlson Software