Function: toggle toolbar

Malkomitch

Hello there

For the project i'm coding on these days, i need to create a command, on a toolbar, which toggle another toolbar.
The method get_last_state from the class Toolbar looks convenient for that but i noticed a strange behaviour.

Here is my code for defining my toolbar and the function that toggle the other toolbars.


#here is the function for toggling my toolbar
def toggle(toolbar)
   toolbar.show if toolbar.get_last_state == -1
   toolbar.show if toolbar.get_last_state == 0
   toolbar.hide if toolbar.get_last_state == 1
end
        
#and then, the block defining my toolbars

main_tb= UI;;Toolbar.new("main toolbar")
	
cmd= UI;;Command.new("Toggle the second toolbar"){toggle(second_tb)}
cmd.large_icon = cmd.small_icon = File.join(path_to, "maintb.png")
cmd.tooltip = cmd.status_bar_text= "Toggle the second toolbar"
main_tb.add_item cmd
main_tb.show

main_tb= UI;;Toolbar.new("my toolbar")
	

second_tb= UI;;Toolbar.new("second toolbar")
cmd= UI;;Command.new("hello"){UI.Messagebox("hello")}
cmd.large_icon = cmd.small_icon = File.join(path_to, "secondtb.png")
cmd.tooltip = cmd.status_bar_text= "hello"
second_tb.add_item cmd

But this code works for showing, not for hiding...
hu??

so i checked manually the method get_last_state directly in Sketchup, using the ruby console
I noticed that the value returned by get_last_state never change, whatever i do with show and hide


tb= UI;;Toolbar.new("my toolbar")
#<UI;;Toolbar;0x4b22d08>
cmd= UI;;Command.new("my cmd"){UI.Messagebox("hello")}
#<UI;;Command;0x4b22ae0>
tb.add_item cmd
#<UI;;Toolbar;0x4b22d08>
tb.get_last_state
-1
tb.show
nil
tb.get_last_state
-1
tb.hide
nil
tb.get_last_state
-1

is there a problem with this method?
did i miss something?

thank you for your time

Chris Fullmer

You could try using toolbar.visible? instead. That gave accurate results for me when I tested it manually.

Chris

Chris Fullmer

tb= UI;;Toolbar.new("my toolbar")
cmd= UI;;Command.new("my cmd"){UI.Messagebox("hello")}
tb.add_item cmd
if tb.visible?
 tb.hide
else
 tb.show
end

That works for me. I'm running it in the webconsole by Jim (thanks again Jim) which is much more useful than the ruby console for little snippets of code.

When I put that into the console, it all works swimmingly well. Toolbar on and off

Chris

Edit: I like this idea. It gives me ideas. I might use something like this in future scripts.

Malkomitch

Thank you Chris.
I'll check that when i'll get back to work next monday.

it's such a fast answer to my very first post here.
This forum looks nice for sharing knowledge and ideas !

Malkomitch

It works!

Thank you again!

Chris Fullmer

Woohoo! That might be my first correct response in this forum I'm glad it helped,

Chris