@honoluludesktop said: am drawing the icons in Sketchup, and sizing them down with a Win2000 utility. Hmmm...think that's the problem? I will try a high end image editor. Possibly (even likely.) There may be several settings to chose from when resizing the image; some designed for speed, others for quality. That may be all you need.

Hi Chris, This code snippet reads a binary 3ds file using Ruby and writes out an ascii .obj file.

Many of the settings associated with Styles are stored in the RenderingOptions. Many of the keys are obvious, some not so much. http://code.google.com/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/renderingoptions.html http://code.google.com/p/skx/wiki/RenderingOptions

Just wanted to be sure you guys were alert.....

This is not for Mac OSX is it?

yea sure... it was a test.

OK, thanks. Btw, how did you learn this stuff? Am I not studying the API sufficiently? Addenda: OK, I get it, in OPPS, the child inherits the parents DNA:-)

I can try this on my Mac. It's one of the event's I've not managed to work out. http://www.thomthom.net/software/sketchup/observers/

Here it is: Paint_back_faces v2.0.rb

Hi hichem, Do you have installed an arabic font in windows? Charly [image: 9wfh_Bild2.jpg]

Thanks for the help,have got it sorted. Jim - I really appreciate you sharing the info about the nested components/groups saved a lot of time and effort Thanks Brett

@thomthom said: @al hart said: But this stopped working. When? I don't know when it stopped working - sometime after I discovered that setting the color to nil did work (several years ago), and this past month when people started reporting bugs. (So of course, I suspected SU 8. But I just tried SU 7 and it fails there as well. So who knows...) The bug was interesting, because the color looked OK in the SketchUp model until you saved and reloaded the model. However, the material editor showed that the material color was not set. When you click reset color it sets the color properly. [image: G9hz_nil_color2.jpg]

@richmorin said: since we only want SketchUp developers, I'm not sure where else would be appropriate... Well... more NEW Sketchup developers? ... the kind who didn't knew that they are Sketchup Developers until they hear about this ?

We've had 50+ views of this topic, but only two positive responses. If you are interested, please say so (either publicly or privately; I don't care). That way, I'll know whether there's enough interest to start things rolling.

Ok, great. thank you. I'll change it this weekend. Hope you have a nice one Bye. Tim

@bluetale said: @dan rathbun said: I think you need to use MF_CHECKED for the active item, and MF_UNCHECKED (or MF_ENABLED ) for the other two. I tried it, but it did not work. Is there a way to get a radiobutton-like behaviour of toolbar-buttons? ..snip... Is there a way to get such a behaviour as explained above for the mac-version? There may be a bug in the Mac version. I see this issue has been discussed in more detail in your more recent topic: Toolbar Win vs Mac http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=32626

I have updated the page substantially, but still need feedback, etc. C'mon, folks...

@unknownuser said: Well, for start, you could type in lowercase Because if your variable name starts with capital letter, ruby takes it as CONSTANT. You are lucky that ruby lets to redefine constants, most of programming languages don't allow . This is why you get the warning. use something like this, it's easier to read and those are local variables, not constants: > x_size = input[0].to_f > y_size = input[1].to_f > z_size = input[2].to_f > Thanks! it works perfectly now!

That's the badger! Though as is the way with these things, it seems so simple once I know the solution. Thankyou very much anyway...that has helped me a great deal.

it works. thanks a lot, once more tommorow t'll try to declare the material in the constructor of the class anyway, to avoid putting all the trash in the memory. bye. tim