;;;TIP.LSP shows a tip using TIP.DVB until user unchecks box ;;;Copyright 2004 by Thomas Gail Haws ;;; ;;; This program is free software under the terms of the ;;; GNU (GNU--acronym for Gnu's Not Unix--sounds like canoe) ;;; General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, ;;; version 2 of the License. ;;; ;;; You can redistribute this software for any fee or no fee and/or ;;; modify it in any way, but it and ANY MODIFICATIONS OR DERIVATIONS ;;; continue to be governed by the license, which protects the perpetual ;;; availability of the software for free distribution and modification. ;;; ;;; You CAN'T put this code into any proprietary package. Read the license. ;;; ;;; If you improve this software, please make a revision submittal to the ;;; copyright owner at hawstom@despammed.com or see www.hawsedc.com. ;;; ;;; This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, ;;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of ;;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the ;;; GNU General Public License on the World Wide Web for more details. ;;; ;;; Revisions ;;; 2009/02/01 TGH Changed storage engine from a line at the top of TIP.LSP to (setcfg) function ;| This code also relies on the tip.dvb vba form available at AutoCAD Wiki as
Media:Tip.dwg (disguised for security purposes as a dwg file).
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Tipvba (AutoLISP function)
|; ;;; ;;; (DEFUN C:TIP () (WIKI-TIP 0 "Use TIP.LSP and TIP.DVB to show your users a tip until they uncheck the box below." ) (WIKI-TIP 1 "TIP.LSP stores the list of unchecked tips using the (setcfg) and (getcfg) functions." ) (WIKI-TIP 2 "Use VBAMAN and VBAIDE to adjust the size of this form as required." ) ) (DEFUN WIKI-TIP (TIPID TIPTEXT / FNAME LINELIST RDLIN STRTIPLIST TIPLIST USERSOLD1 ) ;;Early versions of TIP asked for integer tip ids. ;;Convert if given. (COND ((= (TYPE TIPID) 'INT) (SETQ TIPID (ITOA TIPID)))) (SETQ STRTIPLIST (GETCFG "AppData/Wiki/Tip/HiddenTips")) (COND ;;If the tip requested is in the hidden tip list ((AND STRTIPLIST (SETQ TIPLIST (WIKI-STRTOLST STRTIPLIST "`," "" T)) (MEMBER TIPID TIPLIST) ) ) (T (COND ((>= (ATOF (GETVAR "acadver")) 15) (SETQ USERS1OLD (GETVAR "users1")) ;_ end of setq (SETVAR "users1" TIPTEXT) (COMMAND "-vbarun" "tip.dvb!modTip.Tip") (COND ((= (GETVAR "users1") "BooleanFalse") (SETVAR "users1" USERS1OLD) (SETCFG "AppData/Wiki/Tip/HiddenTips" (COND (STRTIPLIST (STRCAT STRTIPLIST "," TIPID)) (TIPID) ) ) ) ) ) (T (ALERT "\nSorry. I don't think this version of AutoCAD can run a Visual Basic Script.\n\nTom Haws at AutoCAD Wiki" ) ;_ end of alert ) ) ;_ end of COND ) ) ) ;_ end of defun
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