Roundup of Recent BricsCAD News

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BricsCAD recent updates summary:

V 13.1.18 :  PROPERTIES BAR: the length, area and volume values of multiple selected entities are now added up, instead of showing 'Varies'.

Lisp improvements: Significant internal improvements and fixes made in the Lisp operations when reactors are used extensively. This will hugely benefit third party application that make extensive use of reactors. Here is an extract from the release notes:

• SR38205 - LISP: command DDVPOINT, when invoked by application code, like (command "_ddvpoint"), now always opens the dialog and no longer uses the commandline version. The commandline version is to be called with (command "_vpoint).
• SR38385 - LISP:
  • when loading a drawing containing persistent reactors, if an associated entity was erased, the Lisp reactor callback function could sometimes refer to a wrong object instead of the erased one.
  • performance improvements for (vlax-ename->vla-object) by around 30%.
• SR38391 - LISP: command ATTEDIT now properly works when invoked by application code, like (command "attedit") or by a script - in this case, the entity selection uses a single pass only.
• SR38407 - LISP: if the execution of (command) fails, the "ERRNO" system variable now indicates the error with additional values:
  • -1: an unspecific exception happened
  • -2: an unspecific error happened
  • -3: (command) sequence was cancelled
  • -10: other unspecific error
• SR38439 - LISP: (setvar) could cause a memory access violation, when it was called recursively (nested), i.e. from reactors.
• SR38439 - LISP/COM: added a check at BricsCAD startup to verify correctness of BricsCAD's COM interface - if broken, an alert message is shown with how to solve it.
• SR38441 - LISP: added functions (align), (mirror3d) and (rotate3d).
• SR38593 - LISP: when (vlr-object-reactor) was used to add a reactor to an object, the object could immediately receive events, while it should only get events starting from the next modification cycle.

V 13.1.15 : DUAL MONITORS: when using an external display, dockable dialogs like the Properties Bar, Command Line window and Toolpalettes could be off-screen after switching from 'Extend these displays' to 'Show desktop only on 1', or after the external display had been disconnected. Now, when BricsCAD starts up, and a dockable dialog's position is off-screen, the dialog is moved to a default position. (So 'lost' dialogs can be retrieved by restarting BricsCAD).

Read more about it in Ralph Grabowski's post here.

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