I've just been so wrapped up in getting settled in at my new job that I almost completely forget about everything else in the world ...
Like I mentioned back a couple of weeks ago, I've been tweaking and re-coding a bunch of tools that I like to use to do my work. One of these tedious re-codes happens to be a migration from an older program I wrote in AutoCAD's LISP programing language back a decade ago into the more modern and 21st century standard of Visual Basic. The program keeps an automated and detailed time log of every drawing I open in AutoCAD and save back to the system. The problem arises from the fact that what used to be a simple export of document information into an ascii text file using relatively few lines of code, has now evolved into a full blown offensive of data collection and processing. In order to accomplish this task, I have to rewrite the open and close functions of the main AutoCAD program, utilize the Windows API (Applications Program Interface), reference ActiveX and DLL libraries, query database information, and then export properly formated data to an Excel spreadsheet. I've got most of the hard stuff already licked, but I still need to put it all together and get it to function without those nasty error messages puping up all over the place.
Needless to say, I will likely be busy with this crap for another week or so as I am doing all of this stuff at night after dinner. So hang in there folks, I haven't forgot about you.
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