Good job Derek ! 1) Now can you d/l and install gems from within Sketchup embedded Ruby ?? 2) You are running OSX Lion, so I assume your machine is Intel based. I wonder why you need to add platform dir paths for a PowerPC (MacOS9) platform ?? 3) The following dir paths should not have files in them, only subdirs. Why add them ?? " /Library/Ruby/Site" " /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby" 4) You also add the current working directory, ie: " ." (which can change from time to time, via calls to Dir.chdir in other author's plugins.) So, is this necessary for RubyGems ?? 5) After require('rubygems') returns (sucessfully,) has it added any paths to the $LOAD_PATH array ??

They are added by the DC extension.

I was out of town for a couple of weeks, so the channel went away, but I've restarted it.

Well I am NOT an expert on threads. Doc: http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-1.8.6/Thread.html What we DO know is that they were CRAP on PC with Ruby v1.8.0 They are better, in v1.8.6-p287, likely even better in v1.8.7 branch. But they are still Green threads, not native threads (at least on PC.) I'm not sure if Apple tweeked the Ruby editions they install on Macs, and what 'kind' of threads you get, on Apple platforms. If you want your "thing" to work on older SU versions, the API's thread-like UI.start_timer() block method may be a better choice. Otherwise... if the rdocs are too techno.. check out all the books on Ruby. Maybe tutorials on the web. We've avoided them on PC because they were too problematic (... likely because PC Sketchup was running Ruby v1.8.0 for so many versions.) I never (on my machine,) ran Sketchup with the obsolete initial release of v1.8.0; always something >= v1.8.6-p111 ~ If YOU get comfy with Threads on Mac (under Sketchup,) a tutorial may help others out.

@dan rathbun said: This code extends API base class **Sketchup::Face** ... There should be warning, in the OP, and probably the file header doc. @dan rathbun said: without checking to see if the methods exist first, I knew you'd fix it promptly. @dan rathbun said: despite that fact that TIG always tells others not to do this. Couldn't resist teasing. (I DID notice it was 4 years old.) I still believe that adding methods like this, belong in a community project, like SKX. (I still have hopes of reviving that project, or starting a similar one.) @dan rathbun said: This script is going my API doghouse list. I really do not have a "script dog house" list. (Have thought of doing one though.)

@dan rathbun said: As I recall, only materials took (or used to take,) alpha. Colors did not. They do, and did. It's just that they wheren't used until SU let you draw to the viewport with transparency.

@alz said: How does SketchUp handle a scene with thousands of objects in it? That depends on the objects... it's a bit ambiguous question. Got some specific examples? @alz said: I'd love a reason to spend more time inside of SketchUp if I think it can deal with a variety of primitive objects that represent game logic objects and the intertwined game data they hold. You mean physics simulation? Like SketchPhysics?

Hi all you avid followers... For the record, I've been using the modified nib constantly for a over a week now and thought I'd make some comments. The cursor is a little hard to spot in 'hud' mode as I can't change it from the normal text input 'black', but being able to see through to the model more than compensates. It's hard always remembering to Alt/Return for newLine as Return is Submit. I have it set to always stay on top, very handy when working with an external editor, but I'd rather be able to toggle that. I discovered last night that it has a back/forward function, i.e. using the arrow keys you can go back 1..3 inputs, tweak and re-submit. This makes a inputing instead of newLine error a bit less of an issue. If there are any mac users interested in trying this out 'speak up' or is it t'ype up'. I'm happy to PM my 'findings' for your perusal, but I won't be attaching NIB files to this post. john

Assuming your code goes before the face is made mat1 = mats.add("Wood_Plywood_Knots") makes a new material named "Wood_Plywood_Knots". It will be 'black' [0,0,0] with NO texture as you haven't [yet] specified a color or a texture-image... If that material already exists it gets a numeral suffix... If you haven't defined 'mat1' when you assign it to the face it's like writing face.material=nil which is saying use the default front_face_material, which it already has! OR it cause a crash - what's in the Ruby Console... Ensure a material is made before you use it... IF you were to read/understand my earlier notes... they explain step by step how to make/use a material, give it a color and give it a texture [image-file]; then adjust that texture-image and match the material's color to it etc...

The 'Housebuilder' plugin does the framing for roofs and floors/walls/openings etc... See the Plugins Index or the 'crai' Depot [Didier Bur's]... Thrre are two versions - one for metric and the original for feet/ins...

thank you very much, TIG ! I will look over your plugin!

I know what AutoCAD can do (I've been using it for over 25 years.) Suddenly your talking menus (which I have no problem creating in Sketchup. I can even using system calls create a toplevel menu, if I wish to. But Google does not seem to want us to do this in a general sense. They want everyone's main menubar to look the same, for tutorial purposes, I suppose.) Back, on saubject. Commands. The API allows us to create commands. I even told you how I would do the specific one you ask about. I am in the process of creating my own Cline tool, so perhaps I'll expand it a bit to Text, Dimension, and 3Dtext; .. since I was gonna have a default Cline Layer. It would be just adding in some more elsif clauses, and so forth.

I do not know if it is new. I just ran across it. Could not find a bug report, so I filed one. This post is just a "head's up" notice.

thanks Dan and Tig I will have a look at that!

Here's a topic I've written with practical info about the WebDialog class: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=23445#p198883

Hello, I made a small page for the sketchup plugin on my website. I updated the above link for the download. Hans-Peter

Hello, I made a small page for the sketchup plugins on my website. I updated the above link for the download. Hans-Peter

Why is this called "Meta" ?? The definition http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/meta means "self-referential".

Hi, I have an Applescript that opens RC then /copy/pastes/runs, it could easily include additional instructions. eg. open/join an existing ruby first. I had one that also closed RC again, but I don't need that. I can launch from inside SU or from separate menu-bar item that will open SU if it's closed. Obviously mines a mac-hack, can you do that on a PC? My experiments showed RC as the only reliable way in unless you paste/write to file and have 'system' request Sketchup to load it. Permissions can be tricky. A WebDialog would avoid opening RC, but would need to be open itself first. john

Change to a English version of Sketchup. The code try to open Console with following shorcut : Alt W+R and it only works with english version