Jim/Dan, Thanks for the reply. Adding material (and back_material) to grp works for me. Understanding why this happens is even better.

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@kwalkerman said: Is there any other way to detect new objects in a model ... groups and component instances? Try the DefinitionObserver # onComponentInstanceAdded callback.

Is this editor will have the same behavior? http://www.alexschreyer.net/projects/sketchup-ruby-code-editor/ the author said it was based on the Ruby Web Console

ok, my mistake i saved some values by write_default, at the start the plugin get them by read_default and in these values i had some non-utf-characters i changed the values and now it works like before Frank

I was hoping to do a POST because I will be updating a database with my real JSONP call. Unfortunately when I do a check on the php side I see that the call is turned into a GET. I agree that a timeout and an on error function is a good idea. My main question is will this work with OSX Lion. I was hoping that someone could try it out and tell me.

@dacastror said: ... I wanted to look at your plugins and I did not find them, look in the pluginstore and select search by author... you won't find them, there's a couple on limited beta release and a few of mac only dev tools that almost no-one else has even seen... I keep adding to them on the day I decide to release, then I want to test again, ect... etc... I PM the closest to release one if you want to comment on it... john

You can only access the Materials that are loaded into the Model. You can iterate the list and get various aspects of the material. Sketchup.active_model.materials.each{|material| puts material.name puts material.display_name puts material.color puts material.alpha puts material.texture ### and so on... puts } I have included the puts so the info is shown in the Ruby Console but of course you can do other things with that... A Material's '.display_name' is not always the same as the '.name' [depends on its creation/source] A Texture can also be further probed to get info like its image, size and so on... Read the API http://www.sketchup.com/intl/en/developer/docs/classes.php If you must get details of SKM files not yet loaded [and not loadable using native API methods] then you could look at my SKMtools which offer many additional tools to import/export/interrogate SKM files etc... But please learn to walk before you run

Thank you sir.

Yeah, I can see this too. Thanks for reporting it. We've got it logged in our bug database now Chris

@tt_su said: That disappearing group (visually) sure looks like a bug. I'll file a bug internally (SU-29499). Meanwhile, the workaround is to specify scaling in X Y and Z explicitly. Ok, Thom. It is a small bug but it took me a long time to be assured it was not my code fault and try another way to do it.

@dan rathbun said: I've already written a patch, and TIG has updated it twice. See: Re: Sketucation plugin load error Thank you! I use the patch,but there is still different. when sketchup install in drive c,and start with shortcut in desktop Encoding.find("locale") #<Encoding;GBK> when sketchup install in drive c,puts the patch file in tools folder,then start sketchup with shortcut in desktop Encoding.find("locale") #<Encoding;ASCII-8BIT> This different will lead some error if filename uesed some Chinese character. The patch file is still missing something？

I think the new Dim methods do allow you to get the 'entity tree' for a Dim's two start/end. You can also specify them when adding a new Dim - start=/end=... Unfortunately Text does not have the equivalent linking possibilities for its arrowhead. There are many Text methods missing - these were discussed at length at last year's BaseCamp - as were Dims, but only a few got through...

@johnwmcc said: Is it possible or allowable to have module-wide variables that aren't global? YES. ALL of your plugins should be within a company or author namespace module. Each of your separate plugins would be within a sub-module of that toplevel module. Let us say for example your toplevel module is named McC and within that you define a @@last_point variable. You can also define getter and setter methods to set and access that variable within the toplevel module: module McC def McC;;last_point @@last_point end def McC;;;astPoint=(pt) @@last_point = pt.is_a?(Geom;;Point3d) ? pt ; Geom;;Point3d.new(0,0,0) end end # module McC OR you could define your shared functionality within a mixin module, and then include it within any of your sub-modules or classes, with which you want to share it with. See the the "Pick-Axe" book on Programming Ruby. It's in the Ruby Resources thread. AND also online in HTML format.

Sketchup 2014 Mac 10.9.2 testing text in Simplified Chinese [image: 023i_encoding_issue_14.0.4899.png]

Afraid not. But I think it sounds like a useful thing. I'd recommend you file a feature request. (Please include use case - it helps so much more than just the technical request.)

The advantage of code tags is they can easily be copied and pasted in a code editor, or one of the SketchUp console dialogs. I have my editor and SketchUp set up[1] where I can run the pasted code in SketchUp with the push of a key. So testing posted code is fast and easy - copy, paste, run. That's why it's important to post "run-able" code - leaving variables and constants undefined makes it harder to help. [1] https://github.com/noelwarr/su-tunnel

@juantxo said: It's a pro feature. Just click mountains icon. Thanks! Unfortunately this didn't give me the level of detail I'm after (can't zoom in far enough).

Yes, view.invalidate will tell SketchUp to redraw. It doesn't redraw immediately, but let SketchUp manage update rate. Not sure how this is related to dialogs, focus and ALT key though...

finally the problem was tan(alpha)=tan(alpha+180°) here the result...