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    • N Offline
      NatBridge
      last edited by

      Maybe you could just open the webdialog to the image url and screenshot it? (If it isn't bigger than the screen.)

      http://code.google.com/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/webdialog.html#write_image

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        ben.doherty
        last edited by

        That would probably work, but wouldn't win any prizes for elegance.
        Given that ruby can access things on the internet as part of it's core library does anyone have any idea how to point it at those standard libraries?

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        • TIGT Offline
          TIG Moderator
          last edited by

          Here's a discreet way of downloading an image file from a url on Windows only - using vbs...

          strFileURL = "http://www.it1.net/images/it1_logo2.jpg"
          strHDLocation = "C;\Temp\it1_logo2.jpg"
          Set objXMLHTTP = CreateObject("MSXML2.XMLHTTP")
          objXMLHTTP.open "GET", strFileURL, false
          objXMLHTTP.send()
          If objXMLHTTP.Status = 200 Then
            Set objADOStream = CreateObject("ADODB.Stream")
            objADOStream.Open
            objADOStream.Type = 1 'adTypeBinary
            objADOStream.Write objXMLHTTP.ResponseBody
            objADOStream.Position = 0    'Set the stream position to the start
            Set objFSO = Createobject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
          If objFSO.Fileexists(strHDLocation) Then objFSO.DeleteFile strHDLocation
            Set objFSO = Nothing
            objADOStream.SaveToFile strHDLocation
            objADOStream.Close
            Set objADOStream = Nothing
          End if
          Set objXMLHTTP = Nothing
          

          Make a copy of this text in a file that's called say
          C:\Temp\urldownloader.vbs
          or another Temp folder etc...
          Change the first two lines of the text to be the url [I've used a known image_file simply to show that it works] and the folder+filepath to save that file to - in this example I put it into C:\Temp\ too using the same file_name...
          Now run it from within Ruby
          UI.openURL("C:\\Temp\\urldownloader.vbs")
          In Ruby wait till the file arrives - timeout after a while ?
          To tidy up you can delete the temp file...
          It works - I have run it successfully...

          TIG

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          • J Offline
            Jim
            last edited by

            @ben.doherty said:

            Is there an easy way to do this that is nice and easy and clean?

            Nothing is easy. πŸ˜†

            You have the right idea, but I think you may need to add more locations to make it complete. If you check the $LOAD_PATH of your installed Ruby, you'll find it has more locations than just those you listed. See Dan's post on the subject. We should have more success using the installed Ruby since we now have 1.8.6 in SketchUp and an installable 1.8.6

            Hi

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            • J Offline
              Jim
              last edited by

              @tig said:

              Here's a discreet way of downloading an image file from a url on Windows only - using vbs...

              VBScript will run in the WebDialog, so you could eliminate the external file. But I would still try to follow Thom's advice, use JavaScript, and pass the data to the Ruby plugin to save it on disk.

              Hi

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              • TIGT Offline
                TIG Moderator
                last edited by

                My 'vbs' method means you don't actually need a web-dialog running at all.
                You can download images from a url with it [on PC] irrespective of what the Ruby script is doing or has as an interface... πŸ˜•

                TIG

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                • J Offline
                  Jim
                  last edited by

                  @tig said:

                  [on PC]

                  Exactly.

                  The most beneficial result from this thread would be a cross-platform download library which could be used for images or anything, really.

                  Hi

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                  • TIGT Offline
                    TIG Moderator
                    last edited by

                    But the original inquiry was 'for PC' ?
                    A pure Javascript version can't work [?] - because of security issues there is no plain 'save' - only 'save_as', to you ensure you know what's going on with downloading things off the www onto your PC...
                    The 'vbs' method will work for PC - there's probably an equivalent AppleScript [type] method for the MAC... but I can't see how a 'cross-platform' version might work πŸ˜•
                    Java is inherently 'limited' as I said...

                    TIG

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                    • J Offline
                      Jim
                      last edited by

                      @tig said:

                      A pure Javascript version can't work [?]

                      I think it can. There is no save or save as in JavaScript. You can save to disk using JavaScript, but there isn't a cross-platform solution. On Windows, you would use a FileSystem activex object. The same scripting host that rtuns the .vbs can run .js also.

                      But, the XHR is available on all (important) browser platforms. So a cross-platform solution is to use a WebDialog, fetch the file using the XHR, then pass it to the ruby plugin for saving to disk.

                      This small library is a good example of using a XHR cross-platform:
                      http://code.google.com/p/microajax/

                      
                      if (window.ActiveXObject)
                      return new ActiveXObject('Microsoft.XMLHTTP');
                      else if (window.XMLHttpRequest)
                      return new XMLHttpRequest();
                      return false;
                      
                      

                      Hi

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                      • TIGT Offline
                        TIG Moderator
                        last edited by

                        What's this then ?
                        <a href="java script&#058;void(0);" onclick="document.execCommand('SaveAs',true,'http://fileden.com/somefolder/some file.mp3');">download</a>
                        There's just not a 'Save' version ???

                        TIG

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                          Jim
                          last edited by

                          I've never heard of "execCommand" before, but I'd be surprised if it were cross-platform. If it existed, we probably wouldn't be having this discussion.

                          Hi

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                          • TIGT Offline
                            TIG Moderator
                            last edited by

                            Perhaps a MAC users could confirm...

                            TIG

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                              ben.doherty
                              last edited by

                              While the JS debate rages, I've been playing with what can be done with ruby (being single-minded/stubborn/lazy)

                              I've updated my !loadpaths file to match dan's latest http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=29412&hilit=load+path#p257058
                              and when I try a couple of things I get this response:
                              require 'net/http' Error: #<LoadError: C:/ruby186/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:21:inrequire': No such file to load -- socket>
                              C:/ruby186/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:21
                              require 'date/format'
                              true`

                              Any ideas on why net/http fails, but date/format works?

                              I'm sure it will take some clever file management, and refresh cycle control etc, but it'd be cool to be able to specify a url to get a texture from. That'd open up a load of opportunities for data vis etc.

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                              • J Offline
                                Jim
                                last edited by

                                That means it couldn't find the file (socket.so) in the load path.

                                For a short-term solution, you could try to copy socket.so to the Plugins folder.

                                Hi

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                                • Dan RathbunD Offline
                                  Dan Rathbun
                                  last edited by

                                  @jim said:

                                  I've never heard of "execCommand" before, but I'd be surprised if it were cross-platform. If it existed, we probably wouldn't be having this discussion.

                                  It's HTML 5 me thinks. And seems Microsoft may have added a bunch of standard CommandIDs without getting them approved by the web community (as usual.) The spec implies browser specific IDs should have a prefix like "IE-", but MS has been doing this 'arm-twisting' for years.

                                  See: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/author/dom.html#execCommand

                                  MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms536419(v=VS.85).aspx
                                  and MS' command IDS: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms533049(v=VS.85).aspx
                                  ~

                                  I'm not here much anymore.

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                                  • B Offline
                                    Ben_M
                                    last edited by

                                    Hello!

                                    Has anyone made any progress on a simple, cross platform solution to this in the past few months?

                                    Thanks,

                                    Ben

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                                    • V Offline
                                      Viskiz
                                      last edited by

                                      I solved in on Windows platform.
                                      In my script installation I included ruby lib files needed for http, so users will have them after installing script.
                                      The code followed in script:

                                      $LOAD_PATH << File.join(MY_PLUGIN_HOME, "bin", "rblib")
                                      Sketchup::require 'uri'
                                      Sketchup::require 'net/http'

                                      Installer for MAC OS should have different ruby library files I think. I haven't MAC yet, so I can't tell any more. Let me know if you solve it.

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                                      • J Offline
                                        Jim
                                        last edited by

                                        You may be interested in this plugin effort - downlod files plugin using the cUrl library.

                                        Hi

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                                        • K Offline
                                          kaas
                                          last edited by

                                          Digging up this old thread because I'm trying to do almost the same as the OP. Since the last post in this topic, Ruby has been updated so I'm hoping its more simple now.

                                          I have been trying several methods. This code saves the image in the local documents folder so I could pick it up there etc.

                                          require 'net/http'
                                          Net;;HTTP.start("www.google.nl") do |http|
                                              resp = http.get("/images/branding/googlelogo/1x/googlelogo_color_272x92dp.png")
                                              open("googlelogo_color_272x92dp.png", "wb") do |file|
                                                  file.write(resp.body)
                                              end
                                          end
                                          puts "Done"
                                          

                                          Problem is, my images need a different type of url. Something like:
                                          https://url/coordinates/?key=1234abc&index=0
                                          This sort of link doesn't work in the code above.

                                          Another method I'm trying is loading the image in a webdialog and then grabbing it from Ruby.

                                          The test html code (the url could easily replaced with the actual https code) is:

                                          <!DOCTYPE html>
                                          <html><head></head><body>
                                          <img id ="webimage" src = "https://www.google.nl/images/branding/googlelogo/1x/googlelogo_color_272x92dp.png">
                                          </body></html>
                                          

                                          And to grab the image in ruby:
                                          img = @wd.get_element_value('webimage')

                                          Of course this doesn't work because the image isn't a value. I'm stuck.

                                          Anyone has a suggestion? That would be very welcome.

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                                          • TIGT Offline
                                            TIG Moderator
                                            last edited by

                                            Something like this should work:

                                            require('open-uri')
                                            fail = false
                                            url = "http://www.google.nl/images/branding/googlelogo/1x/googlelogo_color_272x92dp.png"
                                            file = File.join(Dir.pwd, File.basename(url))
                                            begin
                                            	download = open(url)
                                            rescue Exception => error
                                            	puts "#{error}"
                                            	fail = true
                                            end
                                            unless fail
                                            	begin
                                            		File.delete(file) ### in case it exists
                                            	rescue
                                            		###
                                            	end
                                            	begin
                                            		IO.copy_stream(download, file)
                                            	rescue Exception => error
                                            		puts "#{error}"
                                            	end
                                            end
                                            
                                            

                                            It should work with a 'php' formatted URL, but remember that then you need to parse out the file name another way. Perhaps [assuming 'key=' gives the file name] split the URL at '?', then take [1], then split at '&', then find the array element starting "key=", then split that at '=' and then [1] is the file name given by 'key=' ?
                                            I also saved the downloaded image file in the 'current directory', but you can of course choose any other folder you want...

                                            TIG

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