OnActiveToolChanged - What RubyTool is it?

[thomthom]

I noticed that onActiveToolChanged returns "RubyTool" as the toolname whenever a ruby scripted tool is used. I had expected it to be the classname of the tool which was returned.
Any way to identify which ruby tool is being used?

[Jim]

Does it respond to .class?

[thomthom]

The tool_name argument returns a string with the tool name, not the tool class itself. So doing .class only returns the String class.

[avariant]

I think some of the built in tools, like the line tool, return a more specific name. But a lot of them are generic. I suspect that Ruby Tool is a default name that tools can override but seldom do (though I do see any method for that in the API).

[thomthom]

Yea, I can differ from the built-in tools. But with the large flora of great plugin tools it'd be nice to be able to detect these as well.

[mattscar]

Whenever I want the name of the active tool, I use:

Sketchup.active_model.tools.active_tool_name

I've never had "RubyTool" returned as a tool name. Does that work for you?

[mattscar]

I was mistaken. Custom tools are always "RubyTool", no matter what you do. Yes, that's very strange.

[Matt666]

You can identify active tool by its ID. Each tool has its own ID. You can't know its name. Try a look here, I played with tool IDs...

[thomthom]

@matt666 said:

You can identify active tool by its ID. Each tool has its own ID. You can't know its name. Try a look here, I played with tool IDs...

But is the id the same across sessions and computers? From my other thread on IDs; the ID of even the native tools might not be consistent. So I have4 mu doubts that ruby tools will have consistent IDs