Afralisp tutorial #1 driving me BONKERS

Hi all,

I've been reading up on .LISP for a bit now and decided to take the

plunge properly and learn it.

I have followed the afralisp tutorial to draw a line to the LETTER, and

AutoCAD is saying "; error: too many arguments"

What am i doing wrong?

(defun c:testline () 
;Define Function
(setq a (getpoint "\nEnter First Point : ""))
;Get the First point
(setq b (getpoint "\nEnter Second Point : ""))
;Get the Second Point
(command "Line" A b "")
;Draw the Line
(princ)
;clean running
) ;end Defun
(princ)
;clean Loading

SORTED

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Original Code with error's

(defun c:testline () 
;Define Function
(setq a (getpoint "\nEnter First Point : [color=red]""[/color]))
;Get the First point
(setq b (getpoint "\nEnter Second Point : [color=red]""[/color]))
;Get the Second Point
(command "Line" A b "")
;Draw the Line
(princ)
;clean running
) ;end Defun
(princ)
;clean Loading

code with error Fixed.

(defun c:testline () 
;Define Function
(setq a (getpoint "\nEnter First Point : [color=red]"[/color]))
;Get the First point
(setq b (getpoint "\nEnter Second Point : [color=red]"[/color]))
;Get the Second Point
(command "Line" A b "")
;Draw the Line
(princ)
;clean running
) ;end Defun
(princ)
;clean Loading

(defun c:testline () 
;Define Function
[color="Red"] (setq a (getpoint "\nEnter First Point : "))[/color]
;Get the First point
[color="Red"] (setq b (getpoint "\nEnter Second Point : "))[/color]
;Get the Second Point
(command "Line" A b "")
;Draw the Line
(princ)
;clean running
) ;end Defun
(princ)
;clean Loading

An extra quot marks in red lines in your code

cheers paul

From this error im assuming you are not using any program to play with them,

i use notpad ++ to make them. its good to see where ive got closed brackets and will run any where.

or

"_vlide"

Which is similar except colours are different, but allows to debug alot easyer, as it tells you where simple mistakes are, and easyer filtering where the bigger mistakes are. and reconises comands and variables

but you need autocad open to make work.

I've decided to try learn it when i get free time at work (Which at moment is alot) so as to keep me "looking busy" LOL,

yep i kno what you mean.ive being working on many myself, till more work comes in,except my boss thinks its a waste of time.

hes a all tool bars man, who dosnt even do much work lol

I never liked toolbars they take up to much screen space as for auto lisp have you looked at the The Visual LISP Developers Bible? pretty good stuff .a little hard to keep up for slow people like. me but it's worth it. everyone on here would agree i'm sure

I've had a look at that JON before and yes, it is pretty helpful.

The Visual LISP Developers Bible?

Never even heard of that book m8

Never even heard of that book m8

See here:

http://www.midpointcad.com/au/docs/lakose_The_Visual_LISP_Developers_Bible.pdf

Thankyou Lee Mac That'll Comin Handy!!!!!!!!

It focusses a lot on visual LISP (which I am not so good at ), but there is a good section on how to use the vlide to debug.

so do you direct type into notepad then lee?

so do you direct type into notepad then lee?

No, I used to, but now I use Visual LISP Editor (provided with ACAD), just type "vlide" in the command prompt to access it.

Cool thanks mate

No probs Skip.