This tutorial
is intended for experienced AutoCADusers and assumes you have some
familiarity with LISP or AutoLISP. It also assumes you understand
basic Windows. file management tasks such as creating
directories, copying files, and navigating through the file system
on your hard disk or network.
In this
tutorial
The Visual LISP. (VLISP) environment is introduced.
This environment provides you with editing, debugging, and other
tools specific to the creation of AutoLISP applications.
ActiveX. and Reactor functions of AutoLISP are
demonstrated, as well as several other extensions to the AutoLISP
language provided with VLISP.
There are the
following two possible execution contexts for this tutorial:
The application may be run as interpreted LISP in piecemeal
files and/or functions that are loaded into a single document,
or
The program code can be compiled into a VLX application,
denoted by a *.vlx executable. A VLX operates
from a self-contained namespace that can interact with the
application-loading document.
