New API doc - typos and questions

[thomthom]

Nopes. Doesn't work.

[Jim]

Works for me...

[thomthom]

Scott just found out that it works if the script loads when SU loads. But if you put it a subfolder for instance, and then manually load it, it won't work.
Jim's Observer tests never fire the event in SU7. However, in SU6 it works fine.

[Jim]

Just wondering if you have Dynamic Components on, and what happens if you turn them off?

[thomthom]

@jim said:

Just wondering if you have Dynamic Components on, and what happens if you turn them off?

Well I'll be! After disabling DCs the onClose even works!

btw, the DefinitionObserver works in SU6. But not SU7. Noticed that when I tested this observer in SU6.

[scottlininger]

Self note: need to add an explanation of how add_face works in relation to which "side" of the face is inside vs. outside, and document the exception where faces drawn at z=0 are always drawn with inside facing upward.

-Scott Lininger

[scottlininger]

From Didier's post:

301 Moved Permanently

(www.sketchucation.com)

Need to add an FAQ for getting to installation directory of SU, for folks trying to build installers (and find out a mac equivalent.)

[avariant]

BoundingBox.valid?

text says

status
    true if the bounding box is valid (not empty), false if it is not valid (empty)

but the code example has it exactly the opposite:

 bbox = Sketchup.active_model.bounds
 status = bbox.valid?
 if (status)
   # If true, bounding box is empty.
 else
   # If false, bounding box contains entities.
 end

[Chris Fullmer]

The introduction to RenderingOptions class states:

@unknownuser said:

The majority of the rendering information returned exists in the Model Info > Display section of SketchUp.

There is no longer a Model Info > Distplay section of SketchUp. I suppose it should say its in the styles inspector or something like that.

http://code.google.com/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/renderingoptions.html#introduction

Also, the API doesn't list these:

DisplayQueWidth
DisplayDims
DisplaySketchAxes
DisplayText
DisplayWatermarks
DrawDepthQue
DrawLineEnds
DrawProfilesOnly
DrawUnderground
EdgeType
FogEndDist*- listed as FogEnd in the API*
FogStartDist - listed as FogStart in the API
HideConstructionGeometry
LineEndWidth
LockedColor
SectionTransparencyMode
ShowViewName

And the API lists these which don't appear to be valid:
DisplayFogEdges
FogDensity
FogEnd - appears to actually be FogEndDist
FogStart*- appears to actually be FogStartDist*
FogType

I tried to be thorough, but perhaps I missed something. It might not be bad to double check my work

Chris

[Chris Fullmer]

http://code.google.com/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/tool.html#onReturn

the onReturn method is showing an example for onMouseLeave

[Chris Fullmer]

http://code.google.com/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/view.html#zoom_extents

Does not give an example of view.zoom_extents. It gives an example of view.zoom

[thomthom]

ModelObserver.onExplode
http://code.google.com/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/modelobserver.html#onExplode

@unknownuser said:

The onExplode method is invoked whenever a component anywhere in this model is exploded. This is an easier way to watch explode events vs. attaching an InstanceObserver to every instance in the model.

The docs in InstanceObserver http://code.google.com/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/instanceobserver.html doesn't mention any explode event. All though, I imagine there used to be. ModelObserver.onExplode is new to SU7, and I'm sure there was an explode related event in SU6. But it's MIA atm.

[thomthom]

Face.position_material
http://code.google.com/intl/nb/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/face.html#position_material

Doesn't explain the difference between using 2,4,6 or 8 points.

[thomthom]

Vector3d.samedirection?
http://code.google.com/intl/nb/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/vector3d.html#samedirection?

@unknownuser said:

vector = Geom::Vector3d.new 0,0,1
vector2 = Geom::Vector3d.new 0,1,0
status = vector.sime_direction? vector2

[thomthom]

Face.mesh
http://code.google.com/intl/nb/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/face.html#mesh

@unknownuser said:

The mesh method creates a polygon mesh that represents the face. See the PolygonMesh class for more information.

Valid flags are:

* 0: Include PolygonMeshPoints,
* 1: Include PolygonMeshUVQFront,
* 2: Include PolygonMeshUVQBack,
* 4: Include PolygonMeshNormals.

Add these numbers together to combine flags. A value of 5 will include all flags, for example.

No example given.

[thomthom]

UVHelper.get_front_UVQ UVHelper.get_back_UVQ
http://code.google.com/intl/nb/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/uvhelper.html

@unknownuser said:

a Point3d containing the UV coordinates where the X value is the U value, the Y value is the V value and the Z value is a Q value (which is not used).

I does appear that the Q value is used. At least when you have a warped texture. (Texture mapped not as a rectangle or parallelogram.) See this thread for further details and sample data: http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=19041

[thomthom]

And I'd also wish there was info about projected textures.

[Chris Fullmer]

http://code.google.com/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/entities.html#add_curve

the .add_curve method says it returns a Curve object. It does not. It returns an array of edges.

I would prefer that it returned the curve object. But that might break the backward compatibility if other scripts have had to work around this?

Chris

[Chris Fullmer]

http://code.google.com/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/webdialog.html#introduction

The Webdialog intro suggests using UI.getURL for opening a basic webpage instead of webdialogs. But there is no getURL method. It should be UI.openURL.

[Jim]

UI.inspector_names and UI.show_inspector missing "EntityInfo" Dialog.

UI.inspector_names
["Materials", "Components", "Styles", "Scenes", "Shadows", "Layers", "SoftenEdges", "Outliner", "Instructor", "Fog", "MatchPhoto"]