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help - skill code for goto xy coordinate

zeroskills

i would like some help on skill code for goto xy coordinate. we used to have this skill code, it does this...

pop up goto xy form, just input x and y coordinate then view size, like how zoom in or out you want it. then there will be an "X" ruler mark on the coordinate.

 

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  • dmay

    This is a forum for ideas and answers, not a development team for your CAD needs. As Andrew said, you should be able to get it working from the examples you have received so far.

    As for my two cents, I don't like having a separate field for X and Y. Most of the time, our users are cutting and pasting X and Y coordinates from a file. Our solution was to make the XY field on the form a string field. We pre-process the string and convert it into X and Y coordinates. In doing this, the pre-process code removes colons, quotes, commas, etc so the user can paste coordinate info in any format that he has and not have to separately cut and paste the X and the Y.

    The following procedure takes the string entered on the form (coord) and returns a point:

    procedure(coordCleanup( coord)
      rexCompile( "[(){}xy=,XY:]")
      coord = rexReplace( coord " " 0)
      ;Occasionally an extra decimal: (920.000000. -223.500000)
      rexCompile( "\\. ")
      coord = rexReplace( coord " " 0)
      coord = parseString(coord)
      mapcar( 'aelNumber coord)
    ) ;proc

    Now, the user can paste this in the box:
    x=10,y=20

    And this routine will return: list(10 20)

    Derek

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  • dmay

    This is a forum for ideas and answers, not a development team for your CAD needs. As Andrew said, you should be able to get it working from the examples you have received so far.

    As for my two cents, I don't like having a separate field for X and Y. Most of the time, our users are cutting and pasting X and Y coordinates from a file. Our solution was to make the XY field on the form a string field. We pre-process the string and convert it into X and Y coordinates. In doing this, the pre-process code removes colons, quotes, commas, etc so the user can paste coordinate info in any format that he has and not have to separately cut and paste the X and the Y.

    The following procedure takes the string entered on the form (coord) and returns a point:

    procedure(coordCleanup( coord)
      rexCompile( "[(){}xy=,XY:]")
      coord = rexReplace( coord " " 0)
      ;Occasionally an extra decimal: (920.000000. -223.500000)
      rexCompile( "\\. ")
      coord = rexReplace( coord " " 0)
      coord = parseString(coord)
      mapcar( 'aelNumber coord)
    ) ;proc

    Now, the user can paste this in the box:
    x=10,y=20

    And this routine will return: list(10 20)

    Derek

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