Lesson 7: Putting It All Together (Visual LISP IDE)

Attention: This lesson requires the Visual LISP Editor and applies to Windows only.

In Lesson 6, you learned the basic mechanics behind reactor-based applications. In Lesson 7, you will add functionality to this knowledge and create a garden path that knows how and when to modify itself. After testing your application and determining that it works satisfactorily, you will create a Visual LISP® application from your Visual LISP project.

You should consider this part of the tutorial as the advanced topics section. If you are a beginner, you may not understand all the AutoLISP® code presented here. There are several AutoLISP books listed at the end of this lesson that provide more thorough information on some of the advanced AutoLISP concepts presented here.

Topics in this Tutorial

  1. Planning the Overall Reactor Process
  2. Reacting to More User-Invoked Commands
  3. Storing Information Within the Reactor Objects
  4. Adding the New Reactor Functionality
  5. Adding Activity to the Object Reactor Callback Functions (AutoLISP)
  6. Designing the Gp:command-ended Callback Function
  7. Handling Multiple Entity Types
  8. Using ActiveX Methods in Reactor Callback Functions
  9. Handling Nonlinear Reactor Sequences
  10. Coding the Command-ended Function
  11. Updating Gp:Calculate-and-Draw-Tiles
  12. Modifying Other Calls to Gp:Calculate-and-Draw-Tiles
  13. Redefining the Polyline Boundary
  14. Looking at the Functions in Gppoly.lsp
  15. Understanding the Gp:RedefinePolyBorder Function (AutoLISP)
  16. Understanding the Gp:FindMovedPoint Function
  17. Understanding the Gp:FindPointInList Function
  18. Understanding the Gp:recalcPolyCorners Function
  19. Understanding the Gp:pointEqual, Gp:rtos2, and Gp:zeroSmallNum Functions
  20. Wrapping Up the Code (AutoLISP)
  21. Building an Application
  22. Starting the Make Application Wizard
  23. Wrapping Up the Tutorial

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