@myhand said: @dan rathbun said: (1) I said inside your module (not your directory!) ... Sorry Dan, I am being really thick here . Are you saying I should cut and paste the code in common.rb into MyPlugin.rb file...? It is what I told Chris to do (in case he didn't wish to have users of his code do a full Ruby install.) %(#8000FF)[An aside rant to any reader who won't read a book, and learn the basics, before diving in and attempting to write complex projects:] If you don't know what I meant by "inside your module" you likely did not follow the advice in my Newbie Guide, and have skipped over learning the nitty-gritty basics of Ruby. Yes it can be boring, but your just running into frustrations because you don't know the simple things. Really .. print out a chapter a day from the ol' "Pick-Axe" book, and put it next to toilet. Don't waste the time when your sitting on the pot. In a nutshell... you need to be writing all your code within YOUR unique top-level namespace (which is a module in Ruby.) Unwrapped code runs within the TOPLEVEL_BINDING, which is the global instance of Object ... and everything is a descendant of Object, so everything inherits whatever is defined in Object. Other authors do not want your objects, variables etc, propagating into their plugins. OK ... back on subject, ... "uri/common.rb" ... for now just leave it in the Ruby lib directory, where it belongs, and use a script similar to the one posted to push paths for a full Ruby install. See: Ruby LOAD PATHs script (Win32)

Yea. Remember that the Ruby API was added in version 4 - it's on top of the C++ core in SketchUp.

[quote="Myhand":31wco2xd]I see that %(#8000BF)[escape()] and %(#8000BF)[unescape()] are deprecated (in Javascript,) though, and that you are recommending to use [them] ***%(#BF4000)[ @unknownuser said: ]*** @unknownuser said: ](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dz4x90hk(v)":31wco2xd]The unescape function should not be used to decode Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI). Use decodeURI and decodeURIComponent functions instead. %(#8000BF)[decodeURI()] %(#8000BF)[decodeURIComponent()] Which do you recommend or should I continue with %(#8000BF)[unescape()]? The old functions are ASCII, the new ones are Unicode. Taking a look at the most recent released ECMA-262 (but not the latest proposed revision,) the old functions are no longer listed. see: ECMA-262, 5.1, Global Object: 15.1.3 URI Handling Function Properties ECMAScript Language Specification Standard ECMA-262 5.1 Edition / June 2011 Link to the downloadable PDF of the specification. But you need to handle the situation where an older browser does not have these functions so, write a wrapper in JS: var unesc = function(uri) { var test = false; if (typeof(decodeURI) == "function") test = true; return test ? decodeURI(uri) ; unescape(uri); }

Once you get your head wrapped around programming and you start to develop your plugin I recommend you read through this guide on how to ensure your plugin doesn't clash with other plugins: http://www.thomthom.net/thoughts/2012/01/golden-rules-of-sketchup-plugin-development/ There's also many more articles on my blog detailing various topics.

Yeah it was back before version 4 I think. It recorded the mouse position on the screen and mouse clicks. So if you re-positioned your SU window, the whole macro broke!

if I change the rubies encoding to uft8 and I zapp the gremlins I get this which shows the css for font size is not good. use ems [image: DcYM_2012-11-3008.31.12pm.png]

Howdy from Boulder, I do not see a bug in our database for this issue. I'll log a bug for you guys. Take care.

The forum search isn't that good. I have more luck using Google to search it.

I've been toying around on AWS today and I realised something. One of the RGAL's dependencies is Qt3. The precompiled CGAL library in the Ubuntu repository is NOT compiled with Qt3. This means that you have to compile CGAL yourself which is always a hassle. I don't know about other platforms though. It's possible that mac's precompiled CGAL works a charm If bootstrap fails at rb_Nef_polyhedron_3.cpp because it can't find qapplication.h, you have two options. *Either comment out the show method in the cpp file (dont forget to comment out the rice refference to it at the bottom of the file) and the two lines (qapplication and Qt_widget) in the rb_Nef_polyhedron_3.h file *Or get your act together and compile CGAL from scratch remembering to set the Qt3 flag to true. Ideally, it would be nice to have the Nef_polyhedron return a qt_widget object that ruby can then put in its own qt application. I have the feeling that that just isn't possible though.

I think when setting a color to a textured material, the change becomes visible immediately, however the API does not differ between colorizing (checkbox in the materials browser) and color-shifting (pointer on the color wheel). Assuming you rotate the color wheel of a material A and get material B: [image: Z4QK_colorize.png] We can then read the color value of B: ` material.materialType 2 color = material.color Color(200, 147, 62, 255)then reset it to the texture image's original look: material.color = nil nilThis way we get A. material.materialType 1then trying to set it again: material.color = color Color(200, 147, 62, 255) material.materialType 2` This time it is also colorized (C) and we have no control about it.

@fdarma said: Well, I have no idea that such an instance definition existed. On that topic, a detailed breakdown of how instances and definitions work in SketchUp: http://www.thomthom.net/thoughts/2012/02/definitions-and-instances-in-sketchup/ If you are fresh to SketchUp plugins I recommend you also check out this: http://www.thomthom.net/thoughts/2012/01/golden-rules-of-sketchup-plugin-development/

Hi Ibswu, Check this: http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=48769 -- Liquid

@driven said: I did wonder the same after cloning the new version and losing that fix, at the same time I added </body> > <script> bodyLoad() </script> and deleted it the top tag, again. I'm away for a few days but will try your version hack, does it work with gems? john The only reason it wouldn't work with gems is that SketchUp doesn't set up a library load path to anything except their own stuff. To get any other ruby code you need either to copy it into SketchUp's area or manipulate the ruby load path before you access it. Steve

Thanks , TIG and Dan, I have decided to install Ruby, though it seem a little complex to me

@sachi said: User has to change the scene(click on the scene tab) manually to display the animation(to go to the next scene). No the user chooses from the menu: View > Animation > Play For Ruby YOU use the Animation class. Or just change the selected_page via the Pages collection.

Aha, I see. So embedding HTML is more for convenience sake then. I remember even over half a year ago there where issues on Safari, thought they whould have been fixed by now. Kind of the answer I was hoping for though, if I understood it correctly. Thank you.

@dan rathbun said: @tig said: So who is to produce the list of [REQ] posts that have been answered / unanswered ? (1) Can moderators set a topic to "Solved" against a certain post, with the new "solution feature" (green check button) ?? The answer to (1) I'd say is YES. Here's an image of one of my posts.[image: 8HVb_solved_post_in_topic_list.PNG] I personally changed the title prefix from "[Issue]" to "[Closed]", but it was Gábor that actually marked it solved. (He reminded me of the "solution feature" in doing so.)

Thanks, That plug-in will do nicely. I have imported a test file and it worked well.

@tig said: Then later use @dlg to change its url, show it etc, and set/reset all other options available etc... This is important! The dialog instance is not destroyed when you close it. You can re-open it again. And if you had data from the dialog, stored in Ruby vars, you can reset them back into the dialog's Javascript vars, after it reopens.

You can get a type of entity faster by using grep. (See this thread: http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=48885 ) <span class="syntaxdefault"></span><span class="syntaxcomment">#&nbsp;Get&nbsp;an&nbsp;Array&nbsp;of&nbsp;all&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;selected&nbsp;Edges<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault">edges&nbsp;</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">=&nbsp;</span><span class="syntaxdefault">selection</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">grep</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">(</span><span class="syntaxdefault">Sketchup</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">;;</span><span class="syntaxdefault">Edge</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">)&nbsp;</span><span class="syntaxdefault"></span>