Built into core Ruby already... Time.now etc, see Ruby http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/html/ref_c_time.html et al...

I'm glad they fixed it. I remember reporting it as a bug some time ago.

There is a link to this blog post in the WebDialog docs, but the link is broken. Is this an appropriate place for an item like this?

@chris fullmer said: So if you ever hit sort by color, it will be on that next time you open SU. Beautiful! No more confusion here, I was sorted by color (whatever that means). Now I'm sorted by name, as everyone has been saying.

Well, Pilou: My version of this plugin just sits there and I have tried all combos of group, no group, select all, select some, select none and right click select operation. No results. Just for your info. mitcorb

No, it looks like you can do "only" export a 3d model, or write an image from a plugin. Thanks.

Thanks Adam. I still don't understand why sum (which is a Float)shown as 1 instead of 1.0 Might the .inspect method be over-ridden?

Thanks Gaieus, and Matt for the script, it's very useful. But could you do it another way? This script just change the unit from model info... My idea is display those units in another measurement window that you can compare more easily. Thanks.

@unknownuser said: . . . Do you think precise control is needed? No (at least not until there were a lot of people requesting it). I think 3 generic options would be adequate. Be interesting to see the results in the Web Dialog that rotates the model. If that process could be automated it could make for producing an impressive online parts catalog.

My mistake then.

Thanks, I will see if I can make the plugin work

I'm not ruby programmer but some installers require you a specific directory. May be the loader expects to find some things on a specific placement. As you know we can get several user accounts with the same directory structure and SU will search for plugins in a determinate order (I read it somewhere). I'm not sure but it could be in the plugins folder inside SU application, then the general library, shared library, user library, and so on. I just collected all of them in my user account/library/application support/GoogleSketchup 7/Sketchup/plugins. All excepting those that are using an installer but probably most of them would work the same. Finally, I don't understand why some rubys needs another location to work. Some problems may need file permissions verification (I tried all possibilities with pipping plugin without success.

I have decided this is not an issue. It is only relevant for people who are re-loading a plugin for testing. A typical plugin does not even need menu guards at since it only gets required once anyway.

Simply exporting them to file - say 'myshortcuts.dat' makes a list as a text file thus. [Accelerators] Count=64 0 0 0 Space selectSelectionTool: 0 0 0 L selectLineTool: 0 0 0 E selectEraseTool: 0 0 0 C selectCircleTool: 0 0 0 A selectArcTool: 0 0 0 M selectMoveTool: ... The 0 0 0 fields represents modifier keys Ctrl/Alt/Shift, so 0 0 0 H editHide: 0 0 1 H Edit/Unhide/All ###shift This is used to Import your setting in the Preferences window. To ensure that they over-write any pre-existing ones you really need to edit the Windows Registry [ - be verycareful!]... HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Sketchup7\Settings Num_Shortcuts = REG_DWORD = 64 [or total of list length] Shortcut_1 = REG_SZ = "0 0 0 Space selectSelectionTool:" Shortcut_2 = REG_SZ = "0 0 0 L selectLineTool:" etc... You would 'empty' the 'Settings' prior to re-importing new ones ? Don't try this unless you know what you are doing... else= If you did then you could [with SUp closed] use a batch file to clear the Registry's '...\Settings' entries and then use those saved in the 'myshortcuts.dat' etc to remake those entries to suit... An alternative way to get a list of shortcuts is using the Ruby Console command: myshortcuts_array=Sketchup.get_shortcuts which returns an array of tab delimited shortcuts - e.g. ["Ctrl+A\tEdit/Select All", "Ctrl+C\tEdit/Copy", ...] You could manipulate each entry in that array and puts it into an external file [ myshortcuts_file="...\\myshortcuts.dat" ?] - this is equivalent to Exporting your current shortcut settings from Preferences - e.g. "Ctrl+A\tEdit/Select All" >>becomes***>> "1 0 0 A Edit/Select All" ###becomes 'simplied' - the testing and pattern matching is 'cod' here == it's NOT real code ! text=myshortcuts_array[i] ctrl = "1 " if text.includes "Ctrl" else ctrl = "0 " alt = "1 " if text.includes "Alt" else alt = "0 " shift = "1 " if text.includes "Shift" else shift = "0 " key = text.split("+")[1].split("\t")[0] command = " " + text.split("+")[1].split("\t")[1] line = ctrl+alt+shift+key+command myshortcuts_file.puts(line) ### You could make the script auto-run on close and always keep a list of your current shortcuts ? You could then reimport them as desired using Preferences/Import or using a Registry batch-file lash-up... Hope there're a few ideas there...

Check out Firebug lite. http://getfirebug.com/lite.html It works for IE and Safari. All you have to do to debug your Webdialogs is add this line to your HTML: <script type='text/javascript' src='http://getfirebug.com/releases/lite/1.2/firebug-lite-compressed.js'></script>

http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=15585

I have also noticed a problem with SelectAtStartup when launching SU - it works, but is apparently overwritten by something either internal to SU or another ruby (haven't tested it yet). However, it still works when opening a file or starting a new model.

@dean arnold said: Looking for a routine to extract "Entity Info" "such as "Face" "Area" for all entities from a "Layer" of a SketchUp model into a csv, xls or any other file type - an "Entity Info" dump. Some method whereby the numeric and alpha data from a SketchUp model could be imported into a spreadsheet for further analysis. Any information will be a help. I use the free version of SketchUp. I am new to Ruby, but I understand a Ruby Plugin may be a method to accomplish this extraction. Look for ComponentReporter++.rb - this has several examples...

hm.. that's interesting. Haven't paid much attention to HTML5 the last few months. @martinrinehart said: But we wander. Back to my original question.. Ah, yea. The topic! Sorry, I often stray away and webdev is one of my major interests so I stray even quicker and further when that topic is even remotely related. @martinrinehart said: As browsers are more predictable in standards mode than quirks mode, Ruby-generated HTML should include a doctype and should be valid for its doctype. Agree. Since webdialogs must run under the webkit engine and IE the best chance for platform compatibility is following the W3C standards. When I make webdialogs I do the same as I do when I develop websites. I code to the standards, then to account for IE notoriously bad handling of the standards I add some conditional comments that adds CSS and JS fixes. Most of the time visual quirks in IE is by triggering hasLayout For better legibility and re-usability, separate CSS and JS their own respective files. Using HTML validators to detect correct markup is very important. Once a document is invalid there's no way to predict how the different rendering engines will recover and you can not expect cross platform compatibility. I'm starting to realise that there hasn't been posted any recommendations of best practices when it comes to webdialogs. Coming from a webdesign background I haven't given it much thought.

Did you try to use PolygonMesh?