Time Section Help...

[tpoz]

Hello,

I'm pretty new to Ruby and SketchUp and am trying to write a Ruby script using ShadowInfo and various other classes. My problem is that I can't find too much info on how to give all the keys a value. Some keys, like ["City"] or ["DisplayShadows"] have 'accepted' the values I gave, but my biggest prob is the ["ShadowTime"] key, it seems to not accept the time I give it and stays at Fri Nov 08 08:30:00 EST 2002.

I have looked at some Ruby resources and used commands like Time.local or .gm, but it seems Sketchup doesn't know these because I get an error if I use them. In the Sketchup/Ruby code resources there is reference to a Time Section of which ShadowTime is in; but I can't find out what this means.

Thanks for any help!
tpoz

[Jim]

Hi laura,

The 'ShadowTime' will accept a Time object.

Sketchup.active_model.shadow_info['ShadowTime'] = Time.now

You can create a new Time by using Time.mktime:

# t = Time.mktime(year, month, day, hour, min, sec)
t = Time.mktime(2009, 6, 10, 10, 5, 1)
Sketchup.active_model.shadow_info['ShadowTime'] = t

[tpoz]

Thanks Jim!