What Commands Can be Pasted into the command line?

[John Hyslop]

Hi All

I'm working on a little project and need some help...
QCad Version:
3.24.3.0 (3.24.3)
Windows10

Is there any documentation on what can be pasted into the command line in Qcad? Everything below works except for the
CP command "Copy To Clipboard" if I type this manually it works
but it doesn't from pasted text below... any Ideas? I've tried extra carriage returns... Also if I use MV " Move/Copy Command " is there a way to stop the dialog from poping up?

This works except the last part? Copy and paste below text into command line

QQ
LINE
5,0
95,0
QQ
LINE
100,5
100,95
QQ
LINE
95,100
5,100
QQ
LINE
0,95
0,5
QQ
AR
5,5
5
180
270
95,5
5
270
0
95,95
5
0
90
5,95
5
90
180
QQ
CIRCLE
25,25
10
CIRCLE
50,25
10
CIRCLE
75,25
10
QQ
RECTANGLE
15,50
85,80
QQ
ZA
QQ
SELECTALL
CP



Cheers
John Hyslop
Oops Forgot screenshot...

[CVH]

Hi, John,
Nice to hear from you.

It works to some extend.
Here is Andrews reply:
https://qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php? ... 17&p=26924

The way to do this is to drop a script.

Regards,
CVH

[John Hyslop]

Thanks CVH

It was a little help but it still would be nice to know what can and
can't be read into the command line.. I purchased the ebook a while
back hoping it would have all this info but it doesn't

Again Thanks for the Help.. hope you're well, take care..

Cheers
John

[CVH]

I think that it does fairly everything that we can do with the keyboard.
What we came up with is that it fails for the final commands of a list.
Or doubles them.
The multi-line entry capebility was not ment for the use with marco lists.
There is also a thing with Windows.
In case the list is made in a Win app then we send windows style EOLs.(end off line)
With a round trip passing by Notepad or NPP, converting the EOL, the results may differ.

So, in the end we dropped it.
Simple scripting is the way.

Recording and playing macro's could be a nice feature.

Regards,
CVH

[riverbuoy]

Hi John,

I have learned something new today! Thank you.

Everything below works except for the
CP command "Copy To Clipboard" if I type this manually it works

Intrigued by this, I copied your list of commands into a text file named 'macro.txt'. I then copied everything in the file and pasted it in to the command line of QCAD. Everything worked, including CP. What you need is an 'end of line' character after the CP. So you need a blank line at the end of the text file. When you copy everything be sure to include the last empty line.
This is a manual way of creating macros. If you want to change or test your commands, having them in a simple text file is the best way.
I changed the end of the text file to the following, in order to confirm that it worked

...
CP
QQ
PASTE
210,50

QQ
ZA

...

Note the blank line at the end (after ZA). Also there is a blank line after the PASTE co-ordinate which terminates the paste command. ZA then makes the whole drawing visible. (Ignore the ellipsis (---), they are not added to the text file).

Also if I use MV " Move/Copy Command " is there a way to stop the dialog from poping up?

I don't know of any way to stop the dialogue box from popping up. Any command that pops up a dialogue box is probably not suitable for this method.
(There might be a setting in QCAD to switch off the display of dialogue boxes.)

I hope you find this helpful.

(Note: I tested this in Linux, but it should work the same way under Windows and Mac OS.)


Regards

riverbuoy

[CVH]

Everything worked

OS!!? Under Win we exhausted the options.
It just isn't stable on when & why it flaws.

I don't know of any way to stop the dialogue box from popping up.

Sure one can, but do you really want this?
App.Prefs .. Modify .. Move/Copy .. Use dialog

Regards,
CVH

[John Hyslop]

Thanks Riverbuoy
I'm glad to hear you learned something new
Thanks for your post.

CVH Thanks for confirming this only works in Linux
Saves me pulling my hair out
Also good to know you can switch the dialogs off...

Scratches head..... I wonder if there is a way of duplicating
the Linux character that's used for a carriage return in windows???
Maybe a hidden character??
Alt + Something Something Something Something...??

Cheers
John

[CVH]

I wonder if there is a way of duplicating
the Linux character that's used for a carriage return in windows???

Win uses CR LF as EOL the others use LF as EOL.
You can't fool this without changing OS.
NPP lets you convert this for use in a file but as soon you grab this text in a Win App you end up with Win EOLs.

I don't think there is a solution on the user side.
I addressed this EOL thing in an other topic and Andrew knows about it.

Regards,
CVH

[John Hyslop]

Thanks CVH

I found this... not tested yet though...we both have this editor "Notepad++" ... checking it out now..
I'm probably flogging a dead horse though... lol

https://support.nesi.org.nz/hc/en-gb/ar ... ne-endings

Unless I'm missing something... It didn't work

Cheers
John

[CVH]

Indeed NPP = Notepad++
The solution is for file transfer.
Copying a line or lines under Win induces win style EOLs.
They flaw for the last.
CVH

[John Hyslop]

I Did it

Try Alt+010 in notepad++

Txt file attached

[John Hyslop]

Now I'm having trouble getting it to work again?
You can clearly see in screenshot CP did work and paste.. I'm baffled..

[CVH]

In the topic mentioned above.
Read up on the strange outcomes when repeated.
CVH

[John Hyslop]

In the topic mentioned above.
Read up on the strange outcomes when repeated.
CVH

Hi CVH
The one I posted? I can't see any text on strange outcomes?
Or is it in the topic posted on here a while ago?
I thought I'd nailed it when it copied and Pasted ahh well..

Back to the drawing board..

Cheers
John

[CVH]

Topic 7017
https://qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php? ... 17&p=26924
It worked because I used the sequence a second time.
It din't on a first run.

I question:
- End with QQ to terminate might do the trick but I think I tried that.
- Could a series of dummies at the end work out.
Thinking out loud: A simple space: = shortcut to command line;
or a move to nowhere ... a rotate zero ...
or any command that won't hurt when not fully interpreted.

Like I said, we/I dropped it as being unreliable.
Regards
CVH