Question about pages

[ktkoh]

working on new plugin and I need to check the Text name of each existing page and this code does not work or give an error message. How should it be written?

model = Sketchup.active_model
selection = model.selection
pages = model.pages
pages.each {|name= page.name| UI.messagebox name}

Thanks Keith

[ktkoh]

I found the solution to the page name question.

# Add page named Assembly if not already added
      pagename=[]
      pgAssy = "no"
	    pages.each {|p|
      pagename = p.name
      if pagename == "Assembly"
        pgAssy = "yes"
      end }#if and each loop
      
      if pgAssy == "no"
        pages.add "Assembly"
      end#if

thanks for looking
Keith

[Jim]

That looks like it will work, ktkoh. You could also have done this:

pages = Sketchup.active_model.pages
if (pages["Assembly"].nil?)
    pages.add("Assembly")
end

Because when you try to retrieve a Page which does not exists, you get nil.

[thomthom]

Also, string comparisons are slow. Instead of "yes"/ "no" it's better to use true or false.

[Jim]

By the way, what is the difference between a page .name and a page .label?

[thomthom]

@jim said:

By the way, what is the difference between a page .name and a page .label?

Seem to be the same, except label doesn't have a setter...

The examples for the getters are pretty much the same.