Are you using Franz AllegroCL?
Allegro has the ability to generate itself as an in-process COM dll. You can also make an ordinary DLL with Allegro. In either case, if Revit is based on AutoCAD, you can write a small ARX application with MSVC++ which loads the DLL into AutoCAD's process space. Once you have Allegro running inside AutoCAD, RDNZL will communicate with AutoCAD's .NET API.
If Revit is not based on Autocad, I am sure the procedure would be similar.
AKW
----- Original Message ---- From: františek štáfek fstafek@noise.cz To: rdnzl-devel@common-lisp.net Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 3:36:07 PM Subject: [rdnzl-devel] in-process DLLs
Hello everybody, I would like to use common lisp to program / script CAD application Autodesk Revit via its .NET API.
API readme says: "API supports in-process DLLs only"
What does it mean? Is there any chance to use RDNZL with this statement? (Sorry for dumb question..., I'm completely new in this area, I just wanted to use my quite good autolisp knowledge for scripting Revit application)?
Regards Frantisek Stafek
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On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:58:06 -0700 (PDT), Andrew Wolven awolven@yahoo.com wrote:
Allegro has the ability to generate itself as an in-process COM dll.
Right. And you can do the same thing with LispWorks and Corman Lisp as well. I think that should work fine. I've built in-process DLLs with LispWorks pretty often, but admittedly never one which deployed RDNZL.
Cheers, Edi.
23. srpna 2007, 8:32:23, Edi:
EW> On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:58:06 -0700 (PDT), Andrew Wolven awolven@yahoo.com wrote:
Allegro has the ability to generate itself as an in-process COM dll.
EW> Right. And you can do the same thing with LispWorks and Corman Lisp EW> as well. I think that should work fine. I've built in-process DLLs EW> with LispWorks pretty often, but admittedly never one which deployed EW> RDNZL.
thanks for info. well maybe this is anyway too above my head. The "getting started" guide for REVIT API says, If I want to write application, I need to do this: "How to write an External Application: Implement support for a specific interface, in this case Autodesk.Revit.IExternalApplication."
Is this doable with RDNZL?
What would I need If I would like to expose a Common Lisp console as part of this "external application"?
Is this doable, or does it require "a lot of work" and lot of .NET experience...
(now I really think I don't know what I'm talking about:-)
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