But that is done with an animation class, right? I was thinking maybe moving things that do not use the animation class would need it. But again, I'm probably wrong. I have not tried this, my computer has been tied up rendering artsy shadows for the seasonal changes over the course of a year.

@honoluludesktop said: Here is an explanation, and "partial" solution. Thomas, When UAC off and as administrator, have you ever experienced a program having problems saving files? Nope.

@chris fullmer said: a point and/or another inputpoint. I only see it referring to InputPoints... And I think the ip it takes as argument are meant for inferring... ...the docs are a wee bit unclear here...

So I'm not mad!

I haven't had time to test this code yet..Has anyone else had a chance?

thanks guys, we've found someone. No need to apply anymore Radiance

@henda said: Ruby script or Ruby extensions written in C\C++ can export google sketchup file to other software that accept only xml file? Do you need something general-purpose (very hard) or more specific (possibly easy)?

@brett mcallister said: Thanks for the replies. The only ruby code I am using is just to load the dialog to test it so there is no namespacing etc. Sounds like that will solve the problem,so I will keep that in mind as I get further along. Cheers Brett Failure to include two parameters in the code block of an action callback is a crime punishable by BugSplat. PC or Mac?

refering to TIG's example: Sketchup::Group is also subclass of Sketchup::DrawingElement (so Sketchup::Group instances will inherit a material= method from it's superclass Sketchup::DrawingElement.)

sorry, I must be really tired today. I meant you can't use a pickhelper outside of the current context. so If you you have two instances in the model, and you double click one, you can't use the pickhelper on it's sibling.

What difference between file exported to format Collada and files exported by script SU2KT ?

@unknownuser said: [Is it because ] super [is ] a keyword? Hence this exception? I believe so. If you look at the lex.c file in the Ruby source, you'll see there are only 3 keywords that use argument lists: defined?, super and yield. In the eval.c file, you see these statements are converted into internal C function calls, (like everything else in Ruby.)

Tig, true, normally i always check if the array has any value or length>0 What would be the best way to check if an array has values? I assume length is the way to go? test=[] if test==[] -->TRUE if test==nil --> FALSE if test.length<1 -->TRUE

Great, not sticky?

Great thx Tig for the extra explanation Now if only this was possible for materials to (without having to duplicate the entities first) BTW Tig, do you know if is possible to refresh the Layer window?

@cjthompson said: Has anyone figured out how to use threads fluidly, so that ruby and regular sketchup will work at the same time? All attempts to use threads I've heard about had failed. Apparently it is a no-go.

@thomthom said: I got the impression that the name was not the issue, but the path. Right. loading a definition with the same path returns the in-model definition with the same path, and does not re-load it from disk. The name is not important, but it is the path that matters. If I save_as the definition to a new path, then load will work on the original path, and the new definition's name will be incremented. I wanted to avoid saving the old definition to a disk file and all the mess that goes along with that - such as finding/creating a folder to save it to and cleaning it up afterward. What I found is I can cdef.save_as("/dev/null") which will reset the path, but not actually create a file on disk. Then I am free to load the definition again - a re-load, although the definition name is incremented. This apparently works on Windows as well as Mac even though Windows does not have a /dev/null file. Perhaps Ruby just knows how to deal with it. Can anyone confirm this does not create a file on disk on either Windows or Mac?

Try this: http://www.smustard.com/script/CenterPoint

but what is the good guy?