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OEM Troubleshooting: Unable to find main dictionary, Could Not Start Speller

By Madhukar Moogala

 

Q. When I run my app and hit any key at AutoCAD command line, I get a AutoCAD dialog saying:
"Unable to find main dictionary. Could not start speller"
AutoCAD command line then reports: "Can't find speller module: AcSpellEng.dll"
What am I supposed to do in the OEM wizard to get this going?

A.

It seems that Copying and Patching Spell files has not taken place while building your OEM application, this is because "_Spell" command has not enabled in your commands page.

OEM Wizard while creating stamp.bat file  wizard initiates stamping for each enabled command such that all dependencies are copied to your project folder [.\AutoCAD OEM XXXX- English\Projects\<OEMAPP>\Toolkit]

XXXX stands for version for e.g. 2016.

So enable full support for "'_Spell'", after building application, open <oemapp>stamp.bat and find for :SPELLDONE, you 'll find stamping of AcSpell.dll takes place.

AutoCAD Developer Documentation Survey

By Virupaksha Aithal

AutoCAD customization documentation team is conducting the survey on AutoCAD Developer Documentation. This survey is to collect information about your impression of the developer documentation and to determine our priorities. I hope you’ll be willing to give few minutes of your time to take the survey – the results will be used to guide the efforts of our developer documentation team.

Here is the link to the survey https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/QXNH7VQ. This survey will be active till 5/31/2016

Also, visit blog http://hyperpics.blogs.com/beyond_the_ui/2016/03/autocad-developer-documentation-survey-2016.html which lists the work done on previous developer documentation survey.

 

Adding Icon Next To Custom Command

By Madhukar Moogala

The motivation behind bringing this blog is a query from a Forum user.

We can add any desired Icon next to our custom command.

• First, load our custom command to AutoCAD domain.
• Next create a CUI ribbon command button.
• Create ribbon button macro with necessary image files and other data, image file that we wish to see across our custom command.
• Associate macro with custom command.

When association is made between custom command and CUI ribbon macro, application can retrieve image data from command macro and displayed across command in command line or editor.

Image:

Or from Command Line:

Source code sample:

I created a sample cuix which associated macro with custom command.

To play around, configure following code into your enviroment,compile and run CreatTestCuix and load generated .cuix file to AutoCAD using CUILOAD.

See the magic

namespace IconToCustomCommand

    {

    /*Helper Methods*/

    public static class CustomizationExtensions

        {

        public static RibbonTabSource AddNewTab(

        this CustomizationSection instance,

        string name,

        string text = null)

            {

            if (text == null)

                text = name;

 

            var ribbonRoot = instance.MenuGroup.RibbonRoot;

            var id = "tab" + name;

            var ribbonTabSource = new RibbonTabSource(ribbonRoot);

 

            ribbonTabSource.Name = name;

            ribbonTabSource.Text = text;

            ribbonTabSource.Id = id;

            ribbonTabSource.ElementID = id;

 

            ribbonRoot.RibbonTabSources.Add(ribbonTabSource);

 

            return ribbonTabSource;

            }

 

        public static RibbonPanelSource AddNewPanel(

        this RibbonTabSource instance,

        string name,

        string text = null)

            {

            if (text == null)

                text = name;

 

            var ribbonRoot = instance.CustomizationSection.MenuGroup.RibbonRoot;

            var panels = ribbonRoot.RibbonPanelSources;

            var id = "pnl" + name;

            var ribbonPanelSource = new RibbonPanelSource(ribbonRoot);

 

            ribbonPanelSource.Name = name;

            ribbonPanelSource.Text = text;

            ribbonPanelSource.Id = id;

            ribbonPanelSource.ElementID = id;

 

            panels.Add(ribbonPanelSource);

 

            var ribbonPanelSourceReference = new RibbonPanelSourceReference(instance);

 

            ribbonPanelSourceReference.PanelId = ribbonPanelSource.ElementID;

 

            instance.Items.Add(ribbonPanelSourceReference);

 

            return ribbonPanelSource;

            }

 

        public static RibbonRow AddNewRibbonRow(this RibbonPanelSource instance)

            {

            var row = new RibbonRow(instance);

 

            instance.Items.Add(row);

 

            return row;

            }

 

        public static RibbonRow AddNewRibbonRow(this RibbonRowPanel instance)

            {

            var row = new RibbonRow(instance);

 

            instance.Items.Add(row);

 

            return row;

            }

 

        public static RibbonRowPanel AddNewPanel(this RibbonRow instance)

            {

            var row = new RibbonRowPanel(instance);

 

            instance.Items.Add(row);

 

            return row;

            }

 

        public static RibbonCommandButton AddNewButton(

        this RibbonRow instance,

        string text,

        string commandFriendlyName,

        string command,

        string commandDescription,

        string smallImagePath,

        string largeImagePath,

        RibbonButtonStyle style)

            {

 

            var customizationSection = instance.CustomizationSection;

            var macroGroups = customizationSection.MenuGroup.MacroGroups;

 

            MacroGroup macroGroup;

 

            if (macroGroups.Count == 0)

                macroGroup = new MacroGroup("MacroGroup", customizationSection.MenuGroup);

            else

                macroGroup = macroGroups[0];

 

            var button = new RibbonCommandButton(instance);

            button.Text = text;

 

            var commandMacro = "^C^C_" + command;

            var commandId = "ID_" + command;

            var buttonId = "btn" + command;

            var labelId = "lbl" + command;

 

            var menuMacro = macroGroup.CreateMenuMacro(commandFriendlyName,

            commandMacro,

            commandId,

            commandDescription,

            MacroType.Any,

            smallImagePath,

            largeImagePath,

            labelId);

            var macro = menuMacro.macro;

            /*Associate custom command to ribbonbutton macro*/

            macro.CLICommand = command;

 

            button.MacroID = menuMacro.ElementID;

            button.ButtonStyle = style;

            instance.Items.Add(button);

 

            return button;

            }

 

 

 

 

        }

    public class CreateTestCuix

        {

        [CommandMethod("CreateTestCuix1")]

        public static void CreateTestCuix1()

            {

            var editor = Application.DocumentManager.MdiActiveDocument.Editor;

 

            try

                {

                var debugFolder = Path.GetDirectoryName(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location);

                var customizationSection = new CustomizationSection();

                var menuGroup = customizationSection.MenuGroup;

                var tab = customizationSection.AddNewTab("CuiTestTab");

                var panel = tab.AddNewPanel("Panel");

                var row = panel.AddNewRibbonRow();

 

                menuGroup.Name = "CuiTest1";

 

                row.AddNewButton(

                "Smile",

                "Smile",

                "KeepSmiling",

                "How to add BMP icon to Custom Command",

                debugFolder + "\\smile_16.bmp",

                debugFolder + "\\smile_32.bmp",

                RibbonButtonStyle.LargeWithText);

 

 

                var fileName = Path.Combine(debugFolder, "CuiTest1.cuix");

 

                File.Delete(fileName);

 

                customizationSection.SaveAs(fileName);

                }

            catch (System.Exception ex)

                {

                editor.WriteMessage(Environment.NewLine + ex.Message);

                }

            }

        [CommandMethod("KeepSmiling")]

        public void KeepSmiling()

            {

            Application.ShowAlertDialog("KeepSmiling :D");

            }

 

        }

    }

Sample Transparent Images:

Project Source

Setting Color to Each Face of Solid

By Madhukar Moogala

The below is self explanatory, we ‘ll look at it how we can traverse to each face and paint with different colours.

void TestBrep(void)

{

    Adesk::Int32 len;

    ads_name  ssname0;

  struct resbuf *buffer;

    buffer = acutBuildList(-4, _T("<AND"),

              RTDXF0, _T("3DSOLID"),

              -4, _T("AND>"), RTNONE);

    acutPrintf(_T("\nSelect a box:"));

    acedSSGet(NULL, NULL, NULL, buffer, ssname0);

    acutRelRb(buffer);

  if (RTNORM == acedSSLength(ssname0, &len))

    {

        ads_name  ent;

        AcDbObjectId entId;

    for(long k = 0; k < len; k++)

        {

            acedSSName(ssname0, k, ent);

            acdbGetObjectId(entId, ent);

 

      settingDifferentColorToEachFace(entId);

        }

        acedSSFree(ssname0);

    }

}

 

void settingDifferentColorToEachFace(AcDbObjectId solidId)

{

  AcCmColor specialColor;

  AcDb3dSolid* pSolid;

    if (Acad::eOk == acdbOpenObject(pSolid, solidId, AcDb::kForRead))

    {

        AcDbFullSubentPath path(solidId, AcDbSubentId());

    AcBrBrep brep;

        AcBr::ErrorStatus bs = brep.setSubentPath(path);

        if (bs != AcBr::eOk)

            return;

   //Initialize the BrepFace traverser

        AcBrBrepFaceTraverser bft;

        bs = bft.setBrep(brep);

        if (bs != AcBr::eOk)

            return;

 

        AcArray<AcDbSubentId> arrSubentId;

        // Traverse all faces

        for (;!bft.done();bft.next())

        {

            AcBrFace face;

            bs = bft.getFace(face);    

            if (bs != Acad::eOk)

            {

                acutPrintf(L"\ngetFace failed");

                break;

            }

            AcDbFullSubentPath    Path(kNullSubent);

            AcDbSubentId          subentId;

            AcBr::ErrorStatus bss = face.getSubentPath(Path);

            subentId = Path.subentId();

 

            arrSubentId.append(subentId);

        }

 

        pSolid->upgradeOpen();

        for (int i = 0; i < arrSubentId.length(); i++)

        {

      specialColor.setColorIndex(i);

            pSolid->setSubentColor(arrSubentId[i],specialColor);

        }

        pSolid->downgradeOpen();

    }

 

    pSolid->close();

}