Drawing A Rectangle With AutoLISP 3

The DCL File


The AutoLISP program works with a dialog box. So we need a DCL file. In the DCL file the dialog box is specified.


Here is the DCL file:


rt:dialog
{
label="Draw Rectangle";
:boxed_column
{
:image
{
height=30;
width=80;
key="im";
}
spacer_1;
}
spacer_1;
: boxed_column
{
width = 25;
fixed_width=true;
alignment="centered";
: edit_box
{
key = "wd";
label = "Width:";
edit_width = 15;
initial_focus = true;
}
: edit_box
{
key = "ht";
label = "Height:";
edit_width = 15;
}
spacer_1;
}
spacer_1;
ok_only;
}


The DCL file starts with a specification of the image. The height and the width of the image is given. The key is also given.


Next two edit boxes are specified in the DCVL file. Those are the edit boxes for entering the width and the height.


Both edit boxes are displayed in a box. You could see that in the first post of this series. There is only an OK button in the dialog box.


This is enough for now. In my next posts I'm going to talk about the functions of the AutoLISP program. I will do it in three installments.

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