@unknownuser said: It's so cute and quirky, we've decided to keep it. (I agree with you that it's attached to the wrong object, BTW. But once a method's in the wild it's really, really hard to change it.) Cheers, Well this is going to sound condescending no matter how i put it so i'll dispense with any niceties and just be blunt, hope you all can handle it...? It seems the API was written by people who have no experience using it. This is what happens when you get a bunch of low level C hackers who hardly use high-level scripting languages to spec out an API. I think it would behoove the dev team to gather input from the soldiers in the trenches instead of just barking orders from the White House. Dan (along with Jim and others) has documented time and again the atrocities of the API and i have noticed many more. The fact is that we need to look towards a major release where all these blasphemies can be rectified into a beautiful API we can all love. Look i know mistakes are unavoidable and i am in no way saying i am better than anyone here. So lets put our collective heads together and make this API all it can be! Are you with me?

@thomthom said: 404 - files not found. Well.. sorry. I suppose I might have copied them in there manually to try and get SU to use those versions. It seems I remember a previous post awhile back about SU using old msvcrt versions. Anyway, the point of the post was where are the DLLs. They are usually put by the application installer into the Windows/System32 folder and registered using regsvr32.exe, but normally the installer is not supposed to overwrite newer versions with older versions. If an application must use and older version, it can keep a local copy in it's program folder and specifically load the local copy. (Which may be how I ended up with copies in the SU folder, I was trying to see SU would use those instead of the ones in my Windows/System32 folder. I have a problem with the MCVCRT and I cannot update several applications, including MS Visual Studio and .NET; something has gotten 'out of whack' on my machine.)

that's the one I took as well - free and fast compiler (PellesC) and easier to debug (using OllyDbg)

cheers!

Thanks that looks nice. I thought about that at first. I can make a component out of the selection and save out to a file or just keep the component on a layer in the current file. It doesn't quite work for what I want here, because I want these views to be something the user can edit while they are in. Not necessary change geometry, but we have a lot of attributes, and while they are in their search view want them to be able to select an item to change its name, material, etc. If I have them working in a copy it would be problem to get it back into the model, in particular since the selection isn't just object in a single group, but pieces from all over the model hierarchy.

Sketchup.active_model.rendering_options['ForegroundColor'] = color works fine for draw_text method. However there is a very weird side effect, probably because the change of rendering is done within the draw method of a Tool. This effect is that the SU main window seems to loose the focus, so that any call to UI.messagebox or UI.inputbox is blocked and does not show the dialog box (you have to press Alt to unlock this situation). I did not find a way to circumvent this side effect. Fredo

@thomthom said: You're missing a puts. @thomthom said: > def onCancel(reason,view) > @web_dialog.close > end > Do you need to close the webdialog here? It does not stop the Tool. It is just a single stage tool. If an user presses escape I want to close the webdialog and deactivate.the_tool. Invoking @dlg.set_on_close {Sketchup.active_model.active_view.remove_observer ProperTool::get_view_observer; **Sketchup.active_model.select_tool(nil)**} will close the tool... and will trigger @web_dialog.close again. That is why it fires up twice.

"Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black." H. Ford There is no doubt that JavaScript is the best language for code running in the browser. Ruby is absolutely the best choice for SketchUp plugins. For similar reasons we've chosen HTML and CSS. However, if you know a man whose pet Python is named Monty, you may infer something about his personal language choice. (Monty just reminded me that van Rossum works for Google. There's hope.)

@hfm said: Well yeah, I/we have been ranting about updating IE. But it feels more like the're changing it with every number. If you are a very big, very rich software company you can have team A working on version N, while team B works on version N+1. As a guess, the IE8 team is now on IE10.

@lib said: Martin I will have a look at the API you offer , I think it is going to help me in my project. Do keep us posted!

I thought the post was Open Kimono. Boy was I disappointed.

OK, you [almost] got me... Webster's US spelling ideas were to base America's English spellings on the original roots - which he took usually to be Latin - as in ***center/centrum, color/em, labor/em, honor/em etc, instead of centre, colour, labour, honour etc used in Johnson's 'English' English taken via the French... [***actually even 'kentrus' is also a Greek word for a 'spur-point', but became the more usual meaning 'center' when in Latin] So, although some words did originate in Greek, they had long been borrowed into Latin - like Greek's metron/metros which became Latin's meteri/metiri/metrum [both concerning 'measure']... Words like 'metrology' do come from two Greek roots - 'measure' and study' - metron-logos... The word 'meter' for a measuring device is [probably] from the Greek root too... English is also proficient at wrongly combining Greek and Latin roots into single words - e.g. 'Television' [Tele=Far (Greek) + Visio=Sight (Latin)] - which might have been more logical as something like Teletheamation or Videoeminus ??? The French Commission in charge of sorting out their newfangled 'metric' system chose the word 'metre' as the length-unit's name - most say from the Greek root 'metron'>'a measure' - and it is often prefixed with Greek 'number-roots' like deca, kilo, giga, micro, nano etc, but also several Latin rooted ones like deci, centi, milli, micro [Gr&L!] etc, to confuse things completely. Latin's 'metrum' ain't that different anyway and the French did make Latin's 'center/centrum'>'centre' so why not with 'metre'? So I still believe that Webster's spelling of 'meter' for a unit of length was taken from the Latin root 'meter(i)' as it was his preferred root source - albeit perhaps mistakenly, if the French had indeed taken it from Greek as 'metre' ! To quote Webster's Dictionary directly on this: 'Meter' = Old English mēter, from Latin metrum, from Greek metron = measure, meter; Anglo-French metre, from Latin metrum... What's in a name ? ... I used the word 'invent' in invisible 'quotes' - they did 'make' the 'metric' system - by definition it is based on their newfangled 'metres' !

Or did you actually want the new SU 7 version? And you're surprised you had to pay to upgrade?

@thomthom said: @cjthompson said: Sketchup only uses 1.8. 1.8.0 to be exact. Thanks very much - that would certainly make sense!

@jim said: This is how it works. I set the response window 0.07 seconds, so there is almost no lag. Probably a setting of 5 seconds would provide frequent enough updates to allow an abort, and still be nearly as fast as possible. You're using a timer of some sort?

Yes of course thanks. No fun being dumb!

I don't think Lightup does this. I think it renders materials and bakes them into faces in SU. At least that is my (severely limited and naive) understanding.

@chris fullmer said: You would need to create your own tool that draws to the screen. Then it could draw bounding boxes around your components. And you could specify any color you desire. I am out of mental gas for the day, but maybe tomorrow I could try to mock up a quick snippet that would show how its done. Chris Very kind - it's not urgent but I needed to know if it were possible. But of course if you find some time ...

In a normal MSIE browser window, if an error occurs (and you have Internet Options > "Advanced" (tab) > "Browsing" (group) > "Display a notification about every script error" unchecked,) you will not see a Error Popup, but there wil be an error icon in the lower left corner on the Status bar. Clicking this icon will bringup the Error Popup dialog. If you have Visual Studio installed it will likely ask if you wish to Debug in VS.

Actually Martin.. that example was quick and dirty. It CAN be cleaned up. I was thinking it would be better to break out of the iteration when the proper match was found, rather then keep iterating, though how many paths do most people have in their $: anyway? You'd likely run a method and set a constant (perhaps Integer index into $LOAD_PATH) and then use that reference from then onward. So it should be a one time, startup type thangy... One thing I do is actually put set ENV['SUpath']