Here's the latest reply which I can just about understand. @unknownuser said: Unfortunately Sketchup API is hidden in compiled C library thus RubyMine doesn't understand it. RubyMine is able to parse only libraries written in Ruby + standard C-based Ruby interpreter core libraries. Please submit an issue at http://youtrack.jetbrains.net/issues/RUBY. It is possible to create/generate ruby stubs for Scetchup (similar which RubyMine uses internally for codeinsight related to Ruby core libraries) and it isn't too hard. At current moment this is a low priority issue and only a few users asked us to implement it. I am not sure I am the right person to submit an issue. Please let me know if you are willing to take it on.

Being totally ignorant on the subject of ruby scripting I think I will buy this book and gain some insight. It looks to be good value at $32. I also notice that the author, Matthew Scarpino, says in Chapter 1: Introduction to SketchUp Scripting For further support with SketchUp scripting, you can't do much better than http://www.sketchucation.com http://www.autosketchup.com/ [image: ht4a_AutomaticSketchUp.jpg]

I want elastic tabstops!

Hi and thanks for everybody who has taken the time to read my post. I'm not a programmer but would like to make this plug-in, so I'm wondering if someone can help me find similar plug-ins or codes that would help me understand and program it. Thanks.

The former used to be the W3C standard way. The latter used to be the non-standard. But as of HTML5 I believe innerHTML and outerHTML are now standard. Pretty well supported anyway.

@thomthom said: I take a few extra lines for readability any day. True, but "squish-the-code" is a fun exercise and I often learn something new. def xis(a);a.map{|e|xis(e.explode)if e.respond_to?('move!')};end (assuming no one has added move! to any of the built-in classes!)

NICE !!! THNKS FOR UPDATE...

And if you want to create components, then you use model.definitions.add "newCompName" http://code.google.com/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/definitionlist.html#add And then place an instance of the definition. http://code.google.com/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/entities.html#add_instance Instead of making a groups and then converting the group.

@martinrinehart said: Microsoft (MSFT) deliberately made Windows programming as complex as possible, as was suspected by all who tried it (I'm one) and was later confirmed by internal documents ferreted out during the antitrust trial. It would be extraordinarily unlike Google to do any such thing. So you ask, "Why?" This is not something MS controls. It's what Google (or @Last) did when they implemented this. I do not know why they chose to group it though.

I don't know a easier way to do it but I do feel your pain!I did this for a friend of mind and he wanted "R" panels. !["R" Panel Roof](/uploads/imported_attachments/zn6g_Roof.gif ""R" Panel Roof")

If you do not have the book, get the book. From my tutorial, Chapter 19: "Before we begin, I should state that we are not covering all of JavaScript here. We are covering the subset that JavaScript guru Doug Crockford identifies in his book, JavaScript: The Good Parts."

Thanks Dan. I think I'll stick with your simplified solution. Works perfectly! Now I can keep my plugins separate from the ones I downloaded from other folks. Marc

Hey Chris, We are the developers of the 4D Virtual Builder for Sketchup plugin Hope you already had the time to test-drive it. Since I'm not a native Ruby developer this forum has been a great help!

Hi! I have followed the discussion but I have still problems with the icons and tools using the Bezier curve. Could anyone explain me which are the right steps? I have seen Fredo released a new .rb file called beziermain.rb but also overwriting that in the old folder BezierSpline1.3 I still don't see all the tools. HELP! thanks. Stef.

Tracking: problem does not appear in Opera of Firefox. It's a Chrome bug. Googled "how to report a Chrome bug." Following thru, closed and reopened Chrome. Problem gone. Glad I took that screenshot showing the problem.

The camera is easy to position using Ruby and the API. Watch the first 30 seconds of my Airshow! movie for a good example. What is the requirement for a separate C++ program?

Thanks for the replies. I'll have to get back to this later, so please don't think I am ignoring you... Cheers, Alex

@thomthom said: Looks like it evaluates the string and treats the backslashes as special characters. I had no end of troubles with slashes. Finally implemented this none-too-clever code and all the bugs went away: =begin qq() and qq!() do these replacements; "'" -> "qq1" '"' -> "qq2" '/' -> "qq3" '\' -> "qq4" '\n' -> "qq5" '\r' -> "qq6" =end def self.qq( str ) return str.gsub( /\'/, 'qq1' ).gsub( /\"/, 'qq2' ).gsub( /\//, 'qq3' ).gsub( /\\/, 'qq4' ).gsub( /\n/, 'qq5' ).gsub( /\r/, 'qq6' ) end # of qq() def self.qq!( str ) str.gsub!( /\'/, 'qq1' ) str.gsub!( /\"/, 'qq2' ) str.gsub!( /\//, 'qq3' ) str.gsub!( /\\/, 'qq4' ) str.gsub!( /\n/, 'qq5' ) str.gsub!( /\r/, 'qq6' ) end # of qq!() These reversers complete the Ruby: def self.unqq( str ) # reverses qq() return str.gsub( /qq1/, '\'' ).gsub( /qq2/, '"' ).gsub( /qq3/, '/' ).gsub( /qq4/, '\\' ).gsub( /qq5/, '\n' ).gsub( /qq6/, '\r' ) end # of unqq() def self.unqq!( str ) # reverses qq!() str.gsub!( /qq1/, '\'' ) str.gsub!( /qq2/, '"' ) str.gsub!( /qq3/, '/' ) str.gsub!( /qq4/, '\\' ) str.gsub!( /qq5/, '\n' ) str.gsub!( /qq6/, '\r' ) end # of unqq!() These are the reversers in JavaScript: single_quote = String.fromCharCode( 39 ); double_quote = String.fromCharCode( 34 ); ford_slash = String.fromCharCode( 47 ); back_slash = String.fromCharCode( 92 ); function unqq( msg ) { s = msg.replace( /qq1/g, single_quote ); s = s.replace( /qq2/g, double_quote ); s = s.replace( /qq3/g, ford_slash ); s = s.replace( /qq4/g, back_slash ); s = s.replace( /qq5/g, '\\n' ); s = s.replace( /qq6/g, '\\r' ); return s; }

@dedmin said: Is this possible with SketchUP "this" - dancing robot? Or simply scripting Python in SU? Someone has been working on adding a Python layer to SU - but it'd interface with the Ruby layer, so it's slower than using Ruby directly. http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/SuPy/

great code, works perfectly. thanks!