The following table provides summary descriptions of the AutoLISP display control functions.
Display control functions |
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Function |
Description |
AutoCAD | AutoCAD LT | AutoCAD | AutoCAD LT | AutoCAD |
Displays the AutoCAD graphics screen |
✓ | ✓ | / - supported, but doesn't do anything | -- | / - supported, but doesn't do anything | |
Draws a vector between two points, in the current viewport |
✓ | ✓ | ✓ | -- | ✓ | |
Writes text to the status line or to screen menu areas |
✓ | ✓ | ✓ | -- | ✓ | |
Draws multiple vectors on the graphics screen |
✓ | ✓ | ✓ | -- | ✓ | |
Issues menu commands, or sets and retrieves menu item status |
✓ | ✓ | / - supported, but limited | -- | / - supported, but limited | |
Verifies that a menu group is loaded |
✓ | ✓ | / - supported, but always returns groupname | -- | / - supported, but always returns groupname | |
Prints an expression to the command line or writes an expression to an open file |
✓ | ✓ | ✓ | -- | ✓ | |
Prints an expression to the command line, or writes an expression to an open file |
✓ | ✓ | ✓ | -- | ✓ | |
Prints an expression to the command line, or writes an expression to an open file |
✓ | ✓ | ✓ | -- | ✓ | |
Displays a string on your screen's prompt area |
✓ | ✓ | ✓ | -- | ✓ | |
Redraws the current viewport or a specified object (entity) in the current viewport |
✓ | ✓ | ✓ | -- | ✓ | |
Prints a newline to the Command line |
✓ | ✓ | ✓ | -- | ✓ | |
Switches from the graphics screen to the text screen |
✓ | ✓ | / - supported, but doesn't do anything | -- | / - supported, but doesn't do anything | |
Switches from the graphics screen to the text screen (like the AutoCAD Flip Screen function key) |
✓ | ✓ | / - supported, but doesn't do anything | -- | / - supported, but doesn't do anything | |
Returns a list of viewport descriptors for the current viewport configuration |
✓ | ✓ | ✓ | -- | ✓ |