Highlight each instance in a selection set

confitex architure

Hello!
I'm building a selection set and would like to view every component instance, one by one, in the selection.

    ss = Sketchup.active_model.selection

     ss.each do |e|
     if( e.kind_of? Sketchup;;ComponentInstance )
...

What can I insert in the "do" loop operation in order to visualy highlight every instance?

Thanks for your help!

Jim

 
ss = Sketchup.active_model.selection.collect
ss.each do |e|
  if( e.kind_of? Sketchup;;ComponentInstance )
    Sketchup.active_model.selection.clear
    Sketchup.active_model.selection.add e
    UI.messagebox("Next")
  end
end

confitex architure

Thanks Jim!
Once again, you hit the mark.
First, I missed the ".collect" and get a bug on sketchup.

Have you got any idea what scan order is prefered in the 'do' loop?
Any way to sort the collection?

Jim

@unknownuser said:

Thanks Jim!
Once again, you hit the mark.
First, I missed the ".collect" and get a bug on sketchup.

Have you got any idea what scan order is prefered in the 'do' loop?
Any way to sort the collection?

Collect is a Ruby method that just makes a copy of the selections in an Array.

There isn't any order to the entities returned (that I am aware of.) You'll need to sort them manually, possibly by building another array of only the instances. Then, you'll need to decide what to sort on: definition name, color, position, size?