Ahh, missed this addition to this rather old topic. Interesting reading. Might be relative to Didier's recent topic. http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=51350 I wonder if I could get some clarification about this: For ex, let say you have a dozen buttons that each is hooked up to it's own callback to Ruby with "window.location.href" for the callback. Even if the Ruby script is permitted to "finish" it's doing before pushing the next buttons, will there be a sync problem ? I'm having a hard time understanding how this issue behave since I don't have a Mac for testing it out myself. It seams like Arielius has a clever solution, but what if for ex one has a slider performing realtime transformation or such ?

@tig said: Ken... I've given you an example in the 'parallel thread' that you started. Yep, got that TIG. Thanks..and sorry for repeating the post.

Don't have the specs at hand - but I think it's one of the late 2009 Intel Mac Minis.

If your were interested in LaunchUp, don't miss that it is no an official plugin: → LaunchUp – A Quick Launcher for SketchUp

Great! Especially since so many issues are scattered over the forums (or burried miles deep under newer bug reports). I sometimes feel by reporting bugs we create the most awesomest bug collection, but the goal shouldn't stay purely contemplative, shouldn't it also be about realizing solutions? This way we can collaborately work on it and "prototype" API fixes and suggest extensions. Also there are so many subtle small issues/infos/experiences that would best be placed directly in the code or at the corresponding method in the API documentation (which we can't edit) – or in this github project.

Hail Jolran Thank you your help. I will read this lots of informations what was linked by you. I start make my plugin. Now i can make input box and i can give the width, lenght and soo on. And after this plugin draw for me. But i don't know yet, how can i save in a storage my "woods", and after i put in the screen only one click? faanyagjo.rb

I moved that post to the Developers forum, and I'm closing this one to keep the conversation collected in one thread.

Thanks TIG for the heads up on how to do that - so far I've only needed that small cmd set, and yes I've since realised it's Didiers' plugin not ThomThoms'.

That error does not come from this download, but from "utilities/utilitiestools.rb" that comes with SketchUp. Probably it can't find some resources. You should have a file "…/Google SketchUp 8/resources/en-US/utilities.strings" (or different language code), does this file exist?

@dan rathbun said: Here's another edition (wrapped in method,) that only works upon the active editing context (to help prevent BugSplats!,) tests first for any definitions and lastly filters out images and groups. thank you for the code i tried it, but it doesn't work, at least on my computer

IF you can, access the ShadowInfo hash directly rather than changing EVERYONE's DynamicComponent class. See: ShadowInfo P.S.: It would be nice if possible, to append a custom DC function, in a singleton manner, to ONLY the specific DC instance in question, rather than modify EVRYONE's set of DC functions. (But I'm not sure it can be done, the way the DCs are currently coded.)

You can access toolbars by their name, if you load them into a hash. See: [ Code ] User::ToolbarSet collection

Thank you all for your help.

You wouldn't need the Pro version - free would work. The SketchUp/Ruby side of this won't be too hard. You could simply poll for changes in a file, read in the instructions, draw things, and export an image file from a SU plugin. As far as the server goes, if you do not have one setup you could try installing like wamp on your local machine for testing.

@unknownuser said: NO not now, because the vertice positions are part of the definition, and not part of the individual instance(s). Thanks for answering Dan. It could be an useful addition to the API, IMO. What confuses me is that we are moving the vertices when scaling the instance(s) using Sketchup normal scaling behavior. So why would it be different if doing a tapering ? I know the calculations for tapering is much more complex, but... Maybe there is need for some symmetry calculation I havent thought about.

thank you very much for the replies dan and Thomthom, I'll take a look at the code Thomthom experimental, to see if I can use some of this code (google translator)

@unknownuser said: That doesn't produce visual flickering? Nope, at least none that I notice on my Macbook Pro. Even if there was a little, it would be acceptable for the rock solid performance. --J

That would be better for me. I'll try to clean out the rubbish from the script first. BTW, thanks a lot. You are very helpful back soon..

Probably be good to make a wrapper for the add_arc method.

Thanks TIG. I sure there is a logical explination as to why you have to add an instance to the container group and delete the original but seems strange to me. Anyway, using your suggestions, this is the modified code and it works just like I wanted. mod = Sketchup.active_model ent = mod.active_entities sel = mod.selection grpA = ent.add_group; grpA.name="container" tr=Geom;;Transformation.new() for f in ent.grep(Sketchup;;Face) grpB=ent.add_group f; tr=grpB.transformation grpB.name="#{f.bounds.width} X #{f.bounds.height}" grpC=grpA.entities.add_instance(grpB.entities.parent,tr) grpC.name=grpB.name grpB.erase! end puts "grpA contains #{grpA.entities.length} entities"