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Steve Maymanunread, Nov 16, 2001, 8:56:26 PM11/16/01 to We have a menu system which is loaded through .lsp and .mnl files. It is not uncommon to have the loads fail after the message in the subject line. It seemed related to the LISP "load" command as evidenced by the following command: Command: (load "acad.lsp") ; error: bad argument type: stringp nil This happens for any LISP routine on AutoCAD's search path. If you try to load a file that does not exist or is not on the search path you get the usual "Error: Load failed." Anybody have any idea what's going on? Thanks, Steve Jürg Menziunread, Nov 17, 2001, 4:50:18 AM11/17/01 to Steve Do you use global variable(s) in your LISP? Seems like one of them is not set. Cheers -- Juerg Menzi MENZI ENGINEERING GmbH, Switzerland http://www.menziengineering.ch Paul Turvillunread, Nov 17, 2001, 12:33:43 PM11/17/01 to Could someone have mistakenly used the protected word "load" as a symbol in one of your startup programs? (e.g., something like (defun load ()...) or (setq load ...)) ___ "Steve Mayman" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... \> \> I use global variables in a menu that is in use when the problem occurs, but \> this occurs with any LISP, even if there are no variables at all. For \> example if I tried to load a LISP with a single princ statement and no \> variables defined I still get the same message. My guess is that the string \> that LISP doesn't like is the string in the LOAD command that is being \> issued (the name of the file to load.) It should also be noted that I can \> load the files through TOOLS>LOAD APPLICATION successfully. Steve Maymanunread, Nov 17, 2001, 12:25:52 PM11/17/01 to Juerg, I use global variables in a menu that is in use when the problem occurs, but this occurs with any LISP, even if there are no variables at all. For example if I tried to load a LISP with a single princ statement and no variables defined I still get the same message. My guess is that the string that LISP doesn't like is the string in the LOAD command that is being issued (the name of the file to load.) It should also be noted that I can load the files through TOOLS>LOAD APPLICATION successfully. Thanks, Steve Steve Maymanunread, Nov 21, 2001, 1:26:15 AM11/21/01 to Paul, I am almost certain the answer is "no" unless it is a program that we did not write and is somehow being loaded without our knowledge. Things work perfectly about 95% of the time, but every couple weeks or so one of the machines on our network will develop this problem and not be able to load our custom routines. Closing and re-opening AutoCAD does not help, but very often simply shutting down the computer and re-starting will get things running normally again. At first it seemed network related, but it is finding the files we are trying to load or we would simply get a "load failed" message. Could some system variable be getting tweaked and causing this? Thanks, Steve Alfredo Medinaunread, Nov 21, 2001, 7:39:28 AM11/21/01 to That sounds like there is one lisp routine on the list of routines to be loaded by acad.lsp that contains an error. No matter how many routines have to be loaded, if there is just one error in one of them, acad.lsp will stop loading and AutoCAD will display the message. You have to load them individually until you found which one is the wrong routine, that one will display the exact message: "bad argument type: stringp nil" . Usually is due to a symbol that is not the type of data that the program is expecting. Alfredo Medina [email protected] Steve Maymanunread, Nov 22, 2001, 12:56:16 PM11/22/01 to Alfredo, Thank you for your comments, but I get this message if I load ANY lisp routine, no matter how simple. If I close AutoCAD, reboot the computer, and open AutoCAD again then the routines begin to load properly again. It seems to me that if there were errors in the routines they would never work, but they work fine most of the time. Any other ideas? Thanks, Steve Alfredo Medinaunread, Nov 22, 2001, 11:03:45 PM11/22/01 to Steve, Do you have an acaddoc.lsp file? Or only an acad.lsp file? If you have both, are there some routines being loaded in one file that are not listed on the other one? What is your current setting in the "System" tab of "Options" for the "Load Acad.lsp with every drawing" option? Alfredo Medina [email protected] ------------ |
