API Docs Comments
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What happened to the comments? Gone?
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hm...
What is the URL you use for it?
Mine just get redirected to this:http://code.google.com/intl/nb/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/webdialog.html
Note the/nb/bit - I think it's some localization redirection and the comments are missing from where I get redirect - despite everything is still in English. -
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Thanks.
I just tried in Firefox to change my preferred language from Norwegian to English - and the comments re-appeared.
I don't understand why Google pages keep messing about like this.... -
TBD said he was working on (or at least planning) a Ruby on Rails documentation app for the API. Any word on how it's going?
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As an experiment, I used the skx project wiki to fill-in all the API classes as templates. My computer counted 1042 methods in the API that would need filled in. It's a huge amount of work even with a small army of volunteers.
But there are some definite advantages to true community documentation.
Here's the index wiki page: http://code.google.com/p/skx/wiki/ClassIndex
If anyone is interest, I can add you to the project in order to allow editing - just shoot me a PM.
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Its great Jim! I've already done the entire constructionpoint class.
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@chris fullmer said:
Its great Jim! I've already done the entire constructionpoint class.
@unknownuser said:
point1 = Geom::Point3d.new (10,0,0)Spaces between method name and parentheses yields warnings:
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Would be nice if the classes listed what class their inherit from.
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Eaxctly!
I copied that example from the API and I didn't notice the extra space there.
Chris
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I added Parent reference.
And condensed the steps to create the sample CPoint in the example. (I don't see the need for all the small steps that the Google API has. At least not when they are just there to create sample objects to later demonstrate the method.)
Also added a comment of the return value in the example. Something I have been missing in the Google API docs.
Agree or disagree?
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Jim, I just noticed the label system. You had labelled the classes inherited from Drawingelement. Nice system of organising.
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@thomthom said:
im, I just noticed the label system. You had labelled the classes inherited from Drawingelement. Nice system of organising.
Yeah, it worked out nicely. I can't say I planned it that way, though!
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I think we can do the same for Entity, Tool, and Observers. Though observers are not inherent from an Observer class, could be nice to have them labelled like that?
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@thomthom said:
... Though observers are not inherent from an Observer class, could be nice to have them labelled like that?
One of my peeves with the SU API. There should be a Sketchup::Observer common class, which could have been a subclass of the Ruby base class Observer.
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Is there a name for the classes that don't really exist other than to define an interface?
For example, there is no actual Tool base class in Sketchup. It's just a convention. An instance of any object can be a "Tool" if it responds_to certain instance_methods.
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@dan rathbun said:
I called it a "protoclass" (but not sure I used the correct term.)
@unknownuser said:
(http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/proto)":2sb0s94w]proto-
a combining form meaning “first,” “foremost,” “earliest form of,” used in the formation of compound words ...
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