I am trying to create a function wherein it would ask a user to select a text (either TEXT/MTEXT) then it would simply alert the value of that TEXT/MTEXT's color, layer, contents, and height which are stated in the properties.
I have this code but an error of "Program ERROR: bad argument type: stringp nil"
(defun c:selecttext()
(setq textobj (car (entsel "\nSelect text or mtext: ")))
(if (and textobj (member (cdr (assoc 0 (entget textobj))) '("TEXT" "MTEXT")))
(progn
(setq textinfo (entget textobj))
(setq textvalue (cdr (assoc 1 textinfo)))
(setq textheight (cdr (assoc 40 textinfo)))
(setq textcolor (cdr (assoc 62 textinfo)))
(setq textlayer (cdr (assoc 8 textinfo)))
(alert (strcat "Text contents: " textvalue "\nHeight: " (rtos textheight) "\nColor: " textcolor "\nLayer: " textlayer)))
(alert "Please select a valid text or mtext object."))
(princ))
Got it to work. It seems that colors appear as text in the properties tab but are actually stored as numbers, like how Cyan is equal to 4. Thus, I had to use itoa to convert the integer of Cyan(4) into a string.