Retrieves a VLA-object's property
Supported Platforms: Windows only
(vlax-get-property object property)
Type: VLA-object
An object.
Type: Symbol or String
Name of the property to be retrieved.
Type: Integer, Real, String, List, VLA-object, Variant, Safearray, T, or nil
The value of the object's property.
This function was formerly known as vlax-get.
Begin by retrieving a pointer to the root AutoCAD object:
(setq acadObject (vlax-get-acad-object)) #<VLA-OBJECT IAcadApplication 00a4b2b4>
Get the AutoCAD ActiveDocument property:
(setq acadDocument (vlax-get-property acadObject 'ActiveDocument)) #<VLA-OBJECT IAcadDocument 00302a18>
The function returns the current document object.
Get the ModelSpace property of the ActiveDocument object:
(setq mSpace (vlax-get-property acadDocument 'Modelspace)) #<VLA-OBJECT IAcadModelSpace 00c14b44>
The model space object of the current document is returned.
Convert a drawing entity to a VLA-object:
(setq vlaobj (vlax-ename->vla-object e)) #<VLA-OBJECT IAcadLWPolyline 0467114c>
Get the color property of the object:
(vlax-get-property vlaobj 'Color) 256