Constructs a drawing object reactor object
Supported Platforms: Windows only; not available on Mac OS or Web
Signature
(vlr-object-reactor owners data callbacks)
- owners
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Type: List
An AutoLISP list of VLA-objects identifying the drawing objects to be watched.
- data
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Type: Integer, Real, String, List, VLA-object, Safearray, Variant, T, or nil
Any AutoLISP data to be associated with the reactor object; otherwise nil if no data.
- callbacks
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Type: List
A list of pairs of the following form:
(event-name . callback_function)
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event-name is one of the following Object Events:
Object events
Name
Event
:vlr-cancelled
The modification of the object has been canceled.
:vlr-copied
The object has been copied.
:vlr-erased
Erase-flag of the object has been set.
:vlr-unerased
Erase-flag of the object has been reset.
:vlr-goodbye
The object is about to be deleted from memory.
:vlr-openedForModify
The object is about to be modified.
:vlr-modified
The object has been modified. If the modification was canceled, also :vlr-cancelled and :vlr-modifyUndone will be fired.
:vlr-subObjModified
A sub-entity of the object has been modified. This event is triggered for modifications to vertices of polylines or meshes, and for attributes owned by block references.
:vlr-modifyUndone
The object's modification was undone.
:vlr-modifiedXData
The object's extended entity data has been modified.
:vlr-unappended
The object has been detached from the drawing database.
:vlr-reappended
The object has been re-attached to the drawing database.
:vlr-objectClosed
The object's modification has been finished.
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callback_function is a symbol representing a function to be called when the event fires. Each callback function accepts three arguments:
owner -- The owner of the VLA-object the event applies to.
reactor_object -- The VLR object that called the callback function.
list -- A list of extra data elements associated with the particular event. The contents of this list for particular events are shown in the “Object Events Callback Data” table.
Object events callback data
Name
List length
Parameters
:vlr-cancelled
:vlr-erased,
:vlr-unerased
:vlr-goodbye
:vlr-openedForModify
:vlr-modified
:vlr-modifyUndone
:vlr-modifiedXData
:vlr-unappended
:vlr-reappended
:vlr-objectClosed
0
:vlr-copied
1
The object created by the copy operation (ename).
:vlr-subObjModified
1
The sub-object (ename) that has been modified
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Return Values
Type: VLR object
The reactor_object argument from the callback_function.
Remarks
The reactor object is added to the drawing database, but does not become persistent.
Examples
The following code attaches an object reactor to the myCircle object. It defines the reactor to respond whenever the object is modified (:vlr-modified) and to call the print-radius function in response to the modification event:
(setq circleReactor (vlr-object-reactor (list myCircle) "Circle Reactor" '((:vlr-modified . print-radius))))