Short description
- Opens a dialog to pick objects once, then copies them to multiple selected paper-space layouts, showing only the total selected object count.
- Includes a wildcard layout filter and multi-select layout targeting with Select All and Select None actions.
Command:
- Commands: Copy2Layouts and macro-friendly alias _Copy2Layouts
Description:
- Creates a temporary DCL file each run and assigns a unique dialog name so the dialog definition cannot collide with older cached DCL definitions.
- Lets the user pick a selection set from the drawing and displays Total: N only, without any object-type breakdown.
- Lists only paper-space layouts (excludes Model) and supports filtering layout names using wildcard patterns * and ?.
- Copies selected objects to the target layouts using ActiveX CopyObjects into each destination layout’s paper-space block, wrapped in an UNDO Begin/End group for one-step rollback.
- Runs as a looped dialog workflow: Apply Filter and Pick return to the dialog, Copy completes the operation and exits on success, Close exits without changes.
Helper function: (if any)
- lc:unique-dialog-name generates a unique DCL dialog name from DATE to avoid dialog name collisions.
- lc:_dcl-text builds the DCL definition lines, including object picking, total count text, layout filter row, multi-select list, and copy/close buttons.
- lc:write-dcl writes the DCL lines to a temp .dcl file and returns the filename.
- lc:cleanup unloads the dialog and deletes the temp DCL file to prevent leftovers across runs.
- lc:get-paper-layouts returns layout names excluding Model.
- lc:parse-indexes converts the list box multi-select index string into a usable list of integers.
- lc:make-index-string builds “0 1 2 …” index strings for Select All behavior.
- lc:fill-layouts fills the layout list box and reapplies the stored index selection string.
- lc:get-ss-count returns the current selection set count, or zero if none is present.
- lc:set-copy-enabled enables or disables the Copy button based on whether the selection set contains objects.
- lc:apply-layout-filter applies wildcard filtering to the full layout list and resets selection to avoid index mismatch after filtering.
- lc:populate-dialog refreshes the dialog fields: filter text, layout list, total count, and Copy button availability.
- lc:select-all-layouts selects all layouts in the filtered list only.
- lc:select-none-layouts clears all selected target layouts in the dialog.
- lc:do-pick prompts the user to select objects and stores a valid PICKSET only if it has at least one entity.
- lc:copy-to-layouts converts selected entities into VLA objects, builds a safearray variant, and calls vla-CopyObjects into each destination layout block, skipping the current tab.
- lc:do-copy validates prerequisites (objects, filtered layouts, layout selection), maps indexes to layout names, runs the copy inside UNDO, and reports success or blocking errors.
- lc:bind-actions wires all dialog controls with action_tile handlers and uses dialog return codes to drive the reopen loop.
- c:Copy2Layouts controls the dialog lifecycle loop and ensures cleanup via a custom *error* handler; c:_Copy2Layouts provides an underscore alias for macros.
Functionalities:
- • Runtime DCL generation writes and loads a temp dialog with a unique name on each run.
- • Pick from drawing captures a selection set once and displays only Total: N in the dialog.
- • Layout filtering supports wildcard patterns * and ? and applies case-insensitive matching.
- • Multi-select target layouts copies to any subset of filtered layouts, with Select All and Select None for fast control.
- • Copy enable/disable disables the Copy button when no objects are selected to reduce invalid runs.
- • ActiveX CopyObjects copies converted VLA objects into each destination layout’s paper-space block to avoid command-based copy/paste issues.
- • UNDO grouping wraps the copy operation in UNDO Begin/End so the entire multi-layout copy can be undone in a single step.
- • Looped dialog workflow Apply Filter and Pick reopen the dialog, while a successful Copy ends the command.
Result:
- On successful copy, selected objects are duplicated into each chosen paper-space layout and a confirmation alert reports completion.
- If objects are not selected, shows No objects selected and instructs to use Pick first.
- If no layouts match the filter, shows No layouts match the current filter and does not copy.
- If no target layouts are selected, shows No target layouts selected and does not copy.
- On close or cancel, exits cleanly after unloading the dialog and deleting the temp DCL file, without copying anything.
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