Detect if Scene is used in Animation?

[Chris Fullmer]

Is there a way to tell if a scene is used in th animation? I was digging around the page methods, but I couldn't see what I was looking for. Anyone know how to do it?

Chris

[Jim]

Look at the Page.behaviors, maybe.

[Jim]

nevermind...

[Chris Fullmer]

So a general ruby question to add to this.

How do I get a find all methods available to an object? I saw lots of public_methods, singleton_methods, etc., but I am not sure which is really showing me the info I am interested in.

I just want to do something like:

my_page.sketchup_methods

and get it to return a list of methods available to that object, preferably weeding out as many non-SU methods as possible. I realize .sketchup_methods is not available, but is there something similar that does not return every method in ruby? I am hoping to find an undocumented include_in_animtion? method or something

Chris

[MartinRinehart]

@chris fullmer said:

Is there a way to tell if a scene is used in the animation?

All scenes are used, unless you implement Animation.nextFrame to stop someplace.

You could, I s'pose, set a scene's transition and delay times to zero. If you try it, let us know!

[RickW]

@martinrinehart said:

All scenes are used, unless you implement Animation.nextFrame to stop someplace.
Users can turn off whether a scene is used in a slideshow. I think that is what he was asking, but I could be mistaken... If I'm not, then:

For checking a page for use in animation:

if page.name==page.label #used in animation

It's kinda hacky, but it works. The reason it works is that SU puts parentheses around a name for the tab label. If the label (with parens) doesn't match the name (without parens), it's not used. If they match, it IS used.

I previously requested a page.in_slideshow? method, but no dice yet (probably because of the available workaround), though it would be easy to code:

class Page
  def in_slideshow?
    return self.name==self.label
  end
end

Then make it an externally loaded file contingent upon not having a native method:

require 'page-in-slideshow.rb' unless page.methods.include?('in_slideshow?')

or something like that, to handle a future native API method.

For checking available SU methods:

model.methods.sort-Object.methods
page.methods.sort-Object.methods
#etc

[Chris Fullmer]

Aha! there it is, thanks Rick! I had noticed the .label method. I had checked the .name method to see if it would return the name in praenthesis (like .label apprently does), but obviously found nothing. Thanks for pointing that method out. Not a bad suggestion for the .skx I think.

Chris