How do you make plug-ins for sketchup

Whaat

I wouldn't consider myself an expert. I am basically self-taught and with that comes lots of bad programming habits. I learned everything I know about Ruby scripting in the last 18 months from these sources:

http://download.sketchup.com/OnlineDoc/gsu6_ruby/Docs/index.html (SketchUp Ruby API Developer's Guide)
http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/ (The Pragamatic Programmers Guide)
Opening up other plugins with a text editor and trying to understand the code.
Helpful people on SCF

You should probably start by reading the fist few parts of 2) You might not understand everything at first, but when you start looking at 1) and 3), things will start to make more sense.

You can't learn this sutff overnight. Start off with something very simple. There are lots of helpful people on the forums so best of luck!

majid

thanx...whatt .maybe its the best advise... so , no time waste for you and helpful for seekers

gohch

hi, I'm new to Ruby too. Just thought of sharing a book that i bought which turned to be a great self learning guide for someone that knows nothing about Ruby (it also happened to be the only book i could find about Ruby in my part of the world )

Begining Ruby From Novice to Professional by Peter Cooper
http://www.apress.com/book/view/9781590597668

BTM

Heh, I've been wondering how to make ruby scripts aswell. Apparently if functions are part of ruby, so I have a start

Pilou, moi aussi je sais comment de parler le français! C'est pas une langue très dificile à apprendre, mais il y a trop de verbes, et c'est difficile de savoir si quelque chose est masculin ou feminin. En anglais, nous avons pas de masculin ou feminin pour les objets non-vivants

Aussi, qu'est ce que ton signature veut dire? "Is beautiful that please without concept!" en français veut dire "Est belle que s'il-vous-plait sans concept" Je ne le comprend pas...

Chris Fullmer

Are you actually interested BTM? There's been quite a few of us Ruby newbs hanging out here lately, and I think we've mostly shown that the learning goes pretty fast once you get into it.

I'm currently putting together a tutorial for the SCF tutorials on how to start learning Ruby. But you really don't need to wait for anything like that. Start teaching yourself Ruby using Chris Pine's ruby tutorial. Its a great place to get started with Ruby. Then once you get the hang of the basic syntax, its time to dig into the SketchUp specific stuff.

Chris

BTM

what text editor do you use to write code, Chris?

jeff hammond

@unknownuser said:

How do you make plug-ins for sketchup

me?
by begging

takesh h

@unknownuser said:

what text editor do you use to write code, Chris?

I guess this thread will answer to most of your questions about Ruby.
http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=10142&p=65928#p65928

Chris Fullmer

I personally use notepad++ currently. And I use Jim's Web Console inside of SU. I use it to test chunks of code and then I copy them into notepad++ once I get things running as expected.

Chris

BTM

...any mac versions or mac text editors? I thought I could use textedit, but it doesn't have any way to save as ruby files. Neither does pages, but word seems to be able to save as ruby if I type .rb in manually. Still, a mac text editor would help.

jeff hammond

i think a lot of the mac heads use TextMate

TextMate: Text editor for macOS

(macromates.com)

REGIS

Hi

Smultron can do it on mac, it's free.

regards

RickW

My MacBook has Xcode or something like that (I'm not a "Mac person" - I just got one for self-preservation for dual-platform SU ruby development ). It's color coded and has auto-completion capabilities as you type.

REGIS

@rickw said:

My MacBook has Xcode or something like that

You are a lucky guy RickW, I can't find Xcode on my mac (perhaps I got to check my cd install to find xcode ?)

I checked out this link and I'm not sure it's free.
BTW, thanks for the info RickW

Regards

Chris Fullmer

This is some good info on Mac code editors. I'll include it in whatever little tutorial I get thrown together.

BTM

I have Xcode too, downloaded smultron anyways, they both seem good, Xcode a little more complicated, but does have menus for picking the exact thing you want to make ( like ruby extentions), but I don't know which one's better.
...Anyone out there have experience with these sorts of things?

Chris Fullmer

Hey not too bad! Just keep that up and you're well on your way. Once you get the standard flow control methods down (which you have, the if/else/end, until/end, array.each do/end) your set. Then its time to dig into the sketchup API to see what methods/classes/modules that SketchUp has added to Ruby.

Chris

BTM

Nevermind, Xcode's my pick. I made my first ruby code too (not for sketchup)

keycode = false
puts 'INPUT CODE'
code = gets.chomp
puts 'CODE RECIEVED'
while (not keycode)
	puts 'INPUT CODE TO UNLOCK'
	if gets.chomp == code
		keycode = true
		puts 'ACCESS GRANTED'
	else
		puts 'ACCESS DENIED'
	end
end

It's a good thing I've used sketchyphysics before, or I would have no idea what I was doing.

Jim

@unknownuser said:

.also, how do you add global variables throughout the script? Is it still setVar("foo",1), getVar("foo"), and getSetVar("foo",0)?

These are not part of the Ruby API - they must be part of the SketchyPhysics API (to confuse things even further.)

BTM

Just looked it up in that pine-something-or-other tutorial. So it's if you put a @ in front of a variable that makes it global?