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VB Macro to Count Blocks

Tags: autocad, block, vba
This comment concerns AutoCAD 2002,
I need to create a little code that will enable the user see how many occurances of a block there are in a drawing simply by clicking on one.  Eventually I would like to make it functional enough so that the user could click them off one by one with each counted block turning a different color.  I have programmed extensively in Excel with VBA but have done absolutely nothing in AutoCAD.  I have looked into LISP but have not been able to make heads or tails of any of it.  What I need is just kind of a jump start.  For instance, how do you allow the user to select objects in code?  Is there a control that does this?  In Excel it's a Refedit control.  Do I need to change the selection mode?  Is there a blocks collection for each block in AutoCAD?  Can I do a For Each Block in BlockName.Blocks?  If anybody knows of any good tutorials on programming with VB in AutoCAD I would like to take a look at them.  

As you can see I'm pretty bogged down here.  Any suggestions will be appreciated.

Kyle
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