Expert: Bill DeShawn - 6/5/2008

Question
I'm trying to build an Autolisp procedure which copies the whole entities in a drawing, changes the active window and makes the copyorig in this second window. The problem is that I can't find the way to swap to that second window... CTRL-TAB (^I) doesn't seem to work and I even tried to "CLOSE" the active window so the second appears but "pasteorig" happens to execute before "close"  asks for saving and a message "can't close because something is executing" appears.
Thanks.
Ricard.

Answer
Ricard.
By "windows", I think you mean active drawing sessions, right?  Because if you meant VIEWPORTS, the toggle between them is ^V and I don't think you're going to get that to work in LISP, even with (menucmd "^V").  The shortcut key for that is CTRL+R, because CTRL+V is PASTECLIP now.  

So if your trying to make one lisp routine work in two drawing sessions, it won't work.  When you load a routine, it's for the drawing session that you opened it in.

Instead of copying and pasting from one drawing session to another, no LISP is required to create a drawing and XREF it into two drawing sessions so that when a change is made to the XREF, the change will appear when the XREFs are reloaded in the two drawing sessions or when the drawing sessions are reopened.

I am not a visual basic, person, but perhaps there would be a Visual Basic for Applications solution to your question, that would transcend the limitation we work under when working with LISP.

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