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

No problem... Just a note that the disposal of the tools filename array needs to be inside the conditional true blocks. (Otherwise we might get an error with the & method if tools gets set to nil, prematurely.) # run when file loads # prevdir = Dir.getwd Dir.chdir Sketchup.find_support_file("Tools") tools = Dir["*.rb"] Dir.chdir(prevdir) prevdir = nil if ( tools & $LOADED_FEATURES == tools ) && Sketchup.active_model && Sketchup.active_model.active_entities && Sketchup.active_model.tools.active_tool_id != 0 UI.start_timer(2.0, false){ LineA.create_line } tools = nil else timer_LineA = UI.start_timer(2.0, true){ if ( tools & $LOADED_FEATURES == tools ) && Sketchup.active_model && Sketchup.active_model.active_entities && Sketchup.active_model.tools.active_tool_id != 0 UI.stop_timer(timer_LineA) tools = nil LineA.create_line end #if } end

Note that you also have ComponentDefinition.image? as Image elements also have definitions. Important to note when iterating the definitions collection.

Sketchup uses inches, but provides methods so you can use any measure you like -> http://code.google.com/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/numeric.html val = 1.m # 1 meter pt1 = [0,0,0] pt2 = [val,0,0] pt3 = [val,val,0] pt4 = [0,val,0] my_face = entities.add_face [pt1, pt2, pt3, pt4]

@draftomatic said: That's a good point... What would you recommend? Should I try to eliminate those that clash from what I'm including with my plugin? I'd recommend that you check carefully what files you bundle. Since it's a shared environment you want to avoid potential clashes. Remove any file you don't need. Check the ones you add if they modify existing methods. And beware that Set.rb will cause incompatible modifications to the Set class.

Ruby (v1.8.6-p287) Windows One-Click Installer (offsite) Helper script: Ruby LOAD PATHs script (Win32) : ver 3.0.1 Topic: Win32API vs DL lib Files: Win32API and Win32OLE so files

@dan rathbun said: EVERYTHING you see on the screen, in Microsoft Windows, IS a window. A button, an edit box, a static text label, a checkbox, ... ALL of them are a window, but their style does not have a resizable frame or a caption bar, like a application window or a dialog (which are also a window.) You have to get the handle for the Sketchup Application window (the parent window,) then use that in view_window_handle = FindWindowEx.call(parent_window_handle,0,"AfxFrameOrView80u",0) Thank you really much!!!, That should help!!!!

@dan rathbun said: object_id is a Ruby integer, that is only unique within a single session. It will be reused in the next session. (The possibility exists that you may get that integer assigned to another model, in another session. With this 'Untitled[0..-1] Sketchup' is always reports 'Unsaved_260629430_su.txt' until one of them is has been written to, then the number sequence randomizes. If I 'Save' an 'Unsaved_260629430_su.txt' the full script will (eventually) update and re-name it's file. I also have a cleanup sequence for closed unsaved models. I'll try and wrap it all, and see how it goes. john

@dan rathbun said: For custom Ruby tools, active_tool_name is always "RubyTool", and active_tool_id is always the same integer, something around or slightly more than 50,000. (Yesterday it was giving me 50006 for any custom tool I activated.) Actually just tested this again... (because something seemed weird, as I was sure in the past that I had gotten different tool ids for custom tools.) And what is happening is that unique tool ids DO get assigned (it seems,) if the tool is associated with a UI::Command object. Then in this case the tool_id is actually the command id. How this happens, I have not yet figured out.

@thomthom said: Do you have a snippet of multi-threaded SketchUp Ruby code? I'd be very interested! hehe, okay, here it is.... @unknownuser said: facesCount = FACE.length # wieviel Flächen habe ich? $facesPerThread = facesCount.divmod($opt.cpuCores.to_i) # Wieviel Flächen bekommt jede CPU? thread = Array.new $j = 0 $opt.cpuCores.to_i.times do |i| $k = ($j-1) + $facesPerThread[0] # Der Rest der Flächen wird noch auf die einzelnen CPUs aufgeteilt if $facesPerThread[1] > 0 $k += 1 $facesPerThread[1] -= 1 end #UI.messagebox $k thread[i] = Thread.new do for l in $j..$k do #UI.messagebox FACE[l] out = FACE[l].isInCylinder break if out end out end # Startpunkt für den nächsten Thread $j = $k + 1 end thread.each do |tmp| tmp.join end I tested it with some simple models and I saved some single seconds.... not too much, but faster then without any threads.... I'm very interested to hear what do you think about it...

@tig said: The registry entry isn't updated until Sketchup closes, so you can't check that while inside a SKP, BUT you can get it at startup. Sorry, forgot to note that. (Added a note to my previous post.) @tig said: Incidentally, if you try 'read_default' for 'Visible' it fails to get it as I suspect it's the wrong sort of key [i.e. not REG_Z] ? Yep... Sketchup.read_default() still cannot read DWORD values (and also seems not to be able to read even string values in some of the OEM keys, which I never noticed happen in v7.) I use Win32API calls to read entries (of all types) in the OEM keys. (Requires the Win32API.so file.)

Thanks a lot for your help. Now this code is very helpful for me! ChrisKa