toolbar button to close without saving?

[vbcad]

I have been trying to figure out how to close the active drawing without saving. I would like to accomplish this by a single click without having to click the yes, no or cancel button on the dialog box. This has been a popular topic in the past but did not find it in the forum.

 

[borgunit]

Make a button with this

(command "close" "y")

 

[vbcad]

I have tried this already. it gives the uknown command and then the command line says "really want to discard all changes to drawing? <N>" I thought that the code would work also. It seems like it should be so simple.

 

[Volk359]

Try

close y

without quotes or parens.

 

[vbcad]

still the same result except the dialog box asking me if i want to save or not pops up.

 

[Volk359]

Hmmm... I've tried a number of ways and wasn't successful. Seems to me it's a rather dangerous thing to do anyway. Don't know how many times I've closed a drawing and answered "no, of course I don't" to the save yes or no button then realized I just lost all the work I'd done since last change. Usually when working 'til the late hours . ;-)

 

[vbcad]

I NEED IT FOR REVIEW OF OTHERS DRAWINGS AND NEVER WANT TO SAVE CHANGES. IT IS A MINOR HASSLE WITH THE DIALOG BOX BUT WOULD LIKE TO FIND A WAY TO CLOSE WITHOUT SAVING. MAYBE VBA?

 

[Volk359]

Setting CMDDIA to 0 will inhibit the dialog boxes but doesn't work for close. The point I meant to make was as it is a potentially dangerous method of closing a drawing (inadvertant loss of changes) that Autodesk make have purposely suppressed the inhibit for the close command.

VBA... probably, unfortunately I wouldn't be much help there. Sorry.

 

[vbcad]

i have a feeling it is built into windows somehow as this is a common dialog across just about any application i can think of.

 

[TCARPENTER]

Hi vbcad,

Try this in your button:

(command "vbastmt" "application.ActiveDocument.Close" "False")

HTH
Todd

 

[vbcad]

this seems to save the drawings. i know by the code it is not supposed too, however it saves the drawing in the my documents folder.(if it is a new drawing and also if it is an existing drawing it saves it in the existing directory.

 

[vbcad]

i put this on the button and it works perfect now. thanks for the help. to be honest; i am not sure why it works now but it does.

(command "VBASTMT" "Application.ActiveDocument.Close(False)")