As a temporary work-around, added a prompt: [image: 068.png] This will allow you to leave the unfold tool and resume when re-activated - but moving the geometry (including using Undo) will invalidate the history and the re-fold will fail. Download from http://bitbucket.org/jimfoltz/sketchup-unfold-tool/get/tip.zip

thank you all... I wish someone would compile a thread with all (or most) plugins ever created, with small animations of what they do, just like the Must Have Rubys Visual Index, but BIGGER

@thomthom said: @martinrinehart said: The w3c insists that you put the <script>...</script> above the </body>. Please join in my subversive campaign against the w3c: http://www.MartinRinehart.com/articles/xhtml-strict-not.html No no no. You should read up some more about separating content from layout in regards to web development. There are very good reasons why all best-practices articles discourages tag-soup. You did not address the content of my article. Is your web the exclusive property of web professionals? Are we drifting way off topic?

Hi Gaieus Sort of an odd ball deal but IMO more script focused but move as you see fit. The 3d PDF that I used built a much larger file than Al Hart's offering for SU but had better images in all render modes. The PDF tools are just killer. Cheers dtr

Maybe, but I don't understand it myself. Rather than returning from the proc, the proc itself evaluates, and that is what is returned.

Or just recreate the dialog every time... def create_dialog @dlg = UI;;WebDialog.new( ... ) @dlg.show { } end

@cjthompson said: The reason I was asking was in regards to this post: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=22567 Is it possible that the bounding box's initialize was interfering with the web dialog's? I don't think so because I have seen invalid dialogs aldo, and I'm fairly certain I have not redefined initialize at the top-level. I see invalid dialogs through variables that reference a dialog that has been closed. I've added some example code here.

@jim said: Hey! thanks remus. I have made this sticky - for a few weeks, at least. Nothing major - but being able to screen-shot a WebDialog from Ruby is interesting. I misinterpreted the word Screen shot, I'm hoping for pictures to be added to the code examples for the entire ruby api, where ever possible. It would help get more potential ruby scriptwriters on board.

I had a look at it. But I get an Access Denied message when I try to call back to Ruby. Turns out IE's XMLHttpRequest only works with files on the net - not local files and other stuff. http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/showpost.php?s=d7e6a32ad41106e35a2d51afbce8f374&p=749574&postcount=10

I think the most important criteria: which ones will let the .execute_script be synchronous?

On OSX - the window is actually just hidden. The embedded WebBrowser object is created as you add the HTML to the WebDialog object - as oppose on PX, where it's rebuilt on evvery .show....

Thanks Jeff, that's it and that was very quick.

Not at once, but stack them up. I think. I've not used the feature. Maybe the tools have to implement the suspend and resume methods...

@kwistenbiebel said: Wuaaah...wouldn't that create a temporal anomaly in the subspace field ? It depends on how much dilithium crystals we put into it...

@simonstaton said: ...now is there one of these [methods] that I can make that will hide the getting started toolbar on load? ...[snip]... ANSWER: Yes there is ! The following code hides the "GettingStarted" toolbar at any time, whether it's docked or floating. status = UI.set_toolbar_visible("GettingStarted", false)

@chris fullmer said: The button is called color all the same or something like that. Here's a screen grab that shows it. Hope it helps, let me know if it does not do quite what you were hoping for. [attachment=0:3e6t77oc]<!-- ia0 -->all_same.png<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:3e6t77oc] Chris Ahh, ok, now I see what you're talking about! I followed your instructions and the model did indeed turn all white, but it's lacking its textures, unfortunately. Let me show you an example of what I'm looking to do: I model with color data and presentation purposes: [image: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/119011/LULZ/sketchup%20texture%20with%20color.jpg] For certain rendering effects and photoshop post-processing, it's VERY handy to keep the textures, but have them have no saturation and full brightness: [image: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/119011/LULZ/sketchup%20texture%20no%20color.jpg] There may be no easy way to do this other than old-fashioned elbow grease. It just gets very redundant, very quick to manually adjust each material

@gruff said: Okay... So are there any books that can walk me through creating a simple hello world web dialog for SketchUp ruby. I don't think you'll find any which directly relates to Sketchup. But any book that talks about web applications will work.

Doing some more testing. I added this meta tag to a Strict document: <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8"/> The user-agent string still reported IE7, but the new CSS feature outline worked. If I remove the meta tag the outline property doesn't render. And just to make sure, I used document.documentMode to get the render mode, with the meta tag it reports IE8, without IE7. So this is another nail in the coffin for the user-agent string <- mostly pointless and highly unreliable. I attached the test code I used. Extract it to your plugins menu and type this into the Console to open up a webdialog: dlg = UI;;WebDialog.new("Test") dlg.set_url Sketchup.find_support_file "test.html", "Plugins/" dlg.show It will first report IE7 mode. But remove the comments around the META tag and see how the blue outline now renders and the JS reports IE8 mode. You can also see the different behaviour from regular IE windows. test.zip

Some might not be able to - as they use custom inference.

Good catch!