ATTDEF - tag string with spaces?

[vanowm]

Hello.

 

I just noticed something strange, in all documentations it says that tag string in ATTDEF cannot contain spaces, however once created I can add spaces via properties window.

 

How can I achieve the same within autolisp? I've tried entmod, it would not accept spaces:

 

(SETQ test (ENTGET
              (ENTMAKEX
                  (LIST
                      '(0 . "ATTDEF") ;Entity type
                      '(1 . "Value text can have spaces") ;value
                      '(2 . "Tag_text_cannot_have_spaces") ;tag
                      '(3 . "Prompt text can have spaces") ;prompt
                      '(10 0 0 0) ;Text first base point
                      '(40 . 6) ;Text height
                      '(70 . 0) ;Attribute flag
                  )
              )
          )
)
(PRINT test)
(SETQ test (ENTMOD (SUBST (CONS 2 "tag with spaces") (ASSOC 2 test) test)))
(PRINT test)

 

 

Also, is there a settings that makes newly created attdef tag in upper case?

 

 

Thank you.

[BlackBox]

Same issue with Attribute populated via Sheet Set Manager (SSM) Fields - adding spaces before / after within the SSM Property is ignored (even stripped), but manually editing the Attribute value to add spaces before / after SSM Field value works. Grrr

[vanowm]

Seems like vlax-put-property works fine with changing ATTDEF tag to lower case with spaces:

(SETQ test (ENTMAKEX
              (LIST
                  '(0 . "ATTDEF") ;Entity type
                  '(1 . "Value text can have spaces") ;value
                  '(2 . "Tag_text_cannot_have_spaces") ;tag
                  '(3 . "Prompt text can have spaces") ;prompt
                  '(10 0 0 0) ;Text first base point
                  '(40 . 6) ;Text height
                  '(70 . 0) ;Attribute flag
              )
          )
)
(PRINT (ENTGET test))

(ENTMOD (SUBST (CONS 2 "tag with spaces via entmod") (ASSOC 2 (ENTGET test)) (ENTGET test)))

(PRINT (entget test))

(vlax-put-property (vlax-ename->vla-object test) 'TagString "tag with spaces via vlax-put-property")

(print (entget test))