[HowTo?] Edit Components (or change "active level")

[MarcioAB]

Now, on SU7, that one can get the full "genealogical instances path" from your current "active level" up to the model level ( with model.active_path ).
How can I re-position my "active level" in one particular instance of this path (kind of "edit level") ? Example:

print model.active_path
#Sketchup::ComponentInstance:0x01Sketchup::ComponentInstance:0x02Sketchup::ComponentInstance:0x03

That means my current "active level" is instance 0x03.
How can I move up one level using Ruby API to make my "active level" at instance 0x02 ?

Thank you

PS1: It could be a pair of APIs like this:

model.get_active_path ( exactly the same as model.active_path)
model.set_active_path(n) where n is the number of "levels" to go up.

In the example above, model.set_active_path(1) will move the "active level" to
#Sketchup::ComponentInstance:0x01Sketchup::ComponentInstance:0x02

PS2: Today I'm using the OUTLINER to get positioned in a particular "active level". How can I do the same using Ruby API ?

Thank you
Marcio

[Matt666]

Hi!
I am also intersted by this request... How can you set active path to a defined componant instance?

[thomthom]

Don't think there is one...

[Jim]

Sounds like model.close_active is what you're looking for. You can "move up", but not dig deeper.

http://code.google.com/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/model.html#close_active

[Matt666]

Yes I know this method... But not its opposite!

[TIG]

model.close_active ### will jump you up one 'level' out of the current edit session.

You can only go in the direction of the base model...

You can repeat x(model.active_path.length) to close the edit back to the base model 'level'.

Alternatively...

model.active_path[model.active_path.length-2] ### to get up 1 level, or use -3 for 2 levels etc...

All of these physically close any current edit sessions...

If you just want to do something with the entities found at a particular 'level' then just use...

parent=model.active_path[model.active_path.length-2]

i.e. the container of the current edit session's instance/group

parent_entities=parent.definition.entities if parent.typename=="ComponentInstance"
parent_entities=parent.entities if parent.typename=="Group"

etc... there's no need to close edits etc, just specify the actual entities-set to work on...