I think this is the last AutoCAD 2013 Autoloader enhancement to document now. Its more of an incremental enhancement than the others …
We strongly recommend that you set your plug-ins to load on demand (usually LoadOnCommandInvocation), rather than on startup. This is so a customer who has installed lots of plug-ins doesn’t see a huge slowdown in AutoCAD startup times. That wasn’t so easy for LISP apps – until now. Here’s an example of how you set a LISP module to load on command invocation:
<!– LISP demand loading example –>
<ComponentEntry AppName="ADN_MINESWEEPER" ModuleName="./Contents/Windows/mylisp.lsp" LoadOnCommandInvocation="True">
<Commands GroupName="ADN_MINESWEEPER">
<Command Local="TEST" Global="TEST" Description="Simple LISP demand loading example" />
</Commands>
</ComponentEntry>
Which is exactly the same as you’d do it for ObjectARX or .NET. 
What further Autoloader enhancements would you be interested in? Post a comment to let us know.
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