Command Line Event Or CommandWillStart Event

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I’m looking to use this as a work-around for another issue I’m having. Is there an event that captures command line input? Even capturing the "Unknown Command: … " would work. I can do this quite easily in AutoCAD so I’d be surprised if it’s not possible in Rhino. I can use C# (very rusty) and Python now.

One big issue I have is that all the docs/help for the API’s are heavily centered around creating and manipulating geometry and not so much on the other stuff. My goals are more to create basic drafting tools.

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You can enable recording (capturing) of the command window output with RhinoApp.CommandWindowCaptureEnabled = true;

https://developer.rhino3d.com/api/rhinocommon/rhino.rhinoapp/commandwindowcaptureenabled

and then get the command window text with RhinoApp.CapturedCommandWindowStrings

https://developer.rhino3d.com/api/rhinocommon/rhino.rhinoapp/capturedcommandwindowstrings

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Thanks Steve.

I guess from there I would just set up my own event to look for the command string.