@chris fullmer said: I've used both [hashes and dictionaries] before, just never really enough to feel like I know what I'm doing. Crash course in hashes (a very useful tool to have at hand): A hash is a dictionary and vice-versa. They are sets of key/value pairs. An array is one form of hash: arr[0] = 'fred'. The key is zero and the value is 'fred'. Arrays are commonly restricted to integer keys. The term "dictionary" is commonly used when the keys are single words. dict['name']='fred'. Ruby makes hashes dead simple (though only a devout Rubyist could love the syntax): [image: Ruby-example.jpg] In JavaScript, both objects and arrays are hashes: [image: javascript-examples.jpg] The last example shows that the key need not be a string. (True in Ruby if you start with a hash: h=Hash.new() or h={}.) The key can be virtually anything. I'm using SketchUp ComponentInstance objects as keys in the stuff I'm doing today (trying to get a lot of things moving all at once). In Ruby, an array must be indexed by number. A hash may be indexed by anything. In JavaScript, an array is really a hash, which wins the flexibility prize but you wouldn't enter them in a race.

I had this brilliant idea (that was a total flop). Since the delay works between frames in an animation, why not just grab that one? Was working well until I moved the puts Time.now() - start out of the animation code and into the mainline: for i in 1..10 do waiter(500); puts Time.now() - start end That said something like 0.03, 0.06, ... So I moved a call to a continue() method into the animation in response to stop(). BugSplat. I think I know how to at least solve the starter problem. The animated "move" commmand stacks move specs that are then run in an animation. Kludgy? Yup. PITA? Yup. But it should actually work.

Hopefully the docs will soon be amended to reflect my comments.

One of the best appearence of drawing curves on the screen is Moment of Inspiration The guy (Michael Gibson) has developped his own graphic engine [image: http://forums.polyloop.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=22617&d=1192006151] [image: http://forums.polyloop.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=22618&d=1192006151] [image: http://forums.polyloop.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=22619&d=1192006151] So you can have that directly on the work's screen By PaQ (Click for zoom)

But that is done with an animation class, right? I was thinking maybe moving things that do not use the animation class would need it. But again, I'm probably wrong. I have not tried this, my computer has been tied up rendering artsy shadows for the seasonal changes over the course of a year.

@honoluludesktop said: Here is an explanation, and "partial" solution. Thomas, When UAC off and as administrator, have you ever experienced a program having problems saving files? Nope.

@chris fullmer said: a point and/or another inputpoint. I only see it referring to InputPoints... And I think the ip it takes as argument are meant for inferring... ...the docs are a wee bit unclear here...

So I'm not mad!

I haven't had time to test this code yet..Has anyone else had a chance?

thanks guys, we've found someone. No need to apply anymore Radiance

@henda said: Ruby script or Ruby extensions written in C\C++ can export google sketchup file to other software that accept only xml file? Do you need something general-purpose (very hard) or more specific (possibly easy)?

@brett mcallister said: Thanks for the replies. The only ruby code I am using is just to load the dialog to test it so there is no namespacing etc. Sounds like that will solve the problem,so I will keep that in mind as I get further along. Cheers Brett Failure to include two parameters in the code block of an action callback is a crime punishable by BugSplat. PC or Mac?

refering to TIG's example: Sketchup::Group is also subclass of Sketchup::DrawingElement (so Sketchup::Group instances will inherit a material= method from it's superclass Sketchup::DrawingElement.)

sorry, I must be really tired today. I meant you can't use a pickhelper outside of the current context. so If you you have two instances in the model, and you double click one, you can't use the pickhelper on it's sibling.

What difference between file exported to format Collada and files exported by script SU2KT ?

@unknownuser said: [Is it because ] super [is ] a keyword? Hence this exception? I believe so. If you look at the lex.c file in the Ruby source, you'll see there are only 3 keywords that use argument lists: defined?, super and yield. In the eval.c file, you see these statements are converted into internal C function calls, (like everything else in Ruby.)

Tig, true, normally i always check if the array has any value or length>0 What would be the best way to check if an array has values? I assume length is the way to go? test=[] if test==[] -->TRUE if test==nil --> FALSE if test.length<1 -->TRUE

Great, not sticky?

Great thx Tig for the extra explanation Now if only this was possible for materials to (without having to duplicate the entities first) BTW Tig, do you know if is possible to refresh the Layer window?