Using the Cancel btn, to return to previous menu?

Dan Rathbun

I don't seem to be able to get any menu to appear each time I add @results to my cancel.rb script.

dialog not menu. A menu is a list of items, that drops down from the application menubar, (or pops up when you click the right mouse button.)

@tomot said:

I suppose part of my problem is not understanding how "OK" and "Cancel" magically become part of any dialog box.

(1) It's a standard Windows API function, that the SketchUp API wraps in a Ruby method.

(2) You are discussing a certain sub-type of dialog box, called an inputbox, which always gets an OK and Cancel button.

@tomot said:

There is no specific Ruby code identifying either of those terms, in the script.

Because if the user cancels, the return value evals false, otherwise the return value is an array (even if the user changed nothing,) which evals as not false. (Even an empty array and an empty string in Ruby will eval logically as not false.)
This is why we always do
return unless results
or
if results
just after the results = UI.inputbox( ... ) call.

Another sub-type of dialog box, is the messagebox. With that you CAN specify the button set, using constants that begin "MB" (such as MB_OK, MB_YESNOCANCEL, etc.)
With a messagebox, you DO check the integer return value against the constants IDYES, IDNO or IDCANCEL, etc.

tomot

@tig said:

You haven't followed my template
Try this...

I tried your code, but it does not produce an on screen dialog either

tomot

@dan rathbun said:

Another sub-type of dialog box, is the messagebox. With that you CAN specify the button set, using constants that begin "MB" (such as MB_OK, MB_YESNOCANCEL, etc.)
With a messagebox, you DO check the integer return value against the constants IDYES, IDNO or IDCANCEL, etc.

Dan thanks for your comments. which raises one question. Would it then be possible to construct a single dialog box with a 3rd button ie. Calculate btn? Which in my example would calculate the division.

TIG

Learn web-dialogs and then you can have any buttons you want, called anything you want, doing anything you desire...

Dan Rathbun

You only have two choices to construct dialogs with custom controls:

(1) Write native code for the platform your on, making system calls. (Very low-level nitty gritty advanced programming.)

(2) Write a WebDialog and use a HTML form.

@TIG EDIT: PUNCHBUG!

tomot

@dan rathbun said:

You only have two choices to construct dialogs with custom controls:

(1) Write native code for the platform your on, making system calls. (Very low-level nitty gritty advanced programming.)

(2) Write a WebDialog and use a HTML form.
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There is a (3) option. Maybe Trimble will add some more stuff to the SketchUp Ruby API, however I'm not holding my breath!

tomot

@tig said:

Learn web-dialogs and then you can have any buttons you want, called anything you want, doing anything you desire...

Luckily I have shortened my list of things that I desire. However if I were, and if I was my 20's, I would not waste my time learning web-dialogs. I'd learn COBOL, an almost extinct language, yet COBOL still runs 90% of the worlds financial programs. And since there are almost no COBOL programmers left, since most have or are retiring. One could make a great deal of money learning COBOL instead of Web-dialogs.

However that still does not answer my followup question: why does the Cancel dialog not display with your included revisions?

Dan Rathbun

OMG! I had to take COBOL in college. I hated it.

I always wanted to have a "COBOL Sucks!" T-shirt made.

TIG

Here's an example I know works as I have tested it...

require('sketchup.rb')
module CANCEL_TEST
	#Set default settings
	@height = 9.feet if not @height # floor to floor height   
	@riser = 16 if not @riser       # no. risers total   
		
	def self.run()   
		self.dialog1()
	end
	# Dialog box #1
	def self.dialog1()
		prompts = ["Floor/Floor Height ", "No. Risers"]
		values = [@height, @riser]
		@results1 = inputbox prompts, values, "Dialog Box #1"
		if @results1
			@height, @riser = @results1
			@riserheight=@height/@riser  # riser height
			self.dialog2()
		else
			return nil
		end
	end

	# Dialog box #2
	def self.dialog2()
		prompts = ["My RiserHeight  ", "--------"]
		values = [@riserheight, @any_entry]
		@results2 = inputbox prompts, values, "Dialog Box #2"
		if @results2
			@riserheight, @any_entry = @results2
			puts "Got here !"
			[@height,@riser,@riserheight,@any_entry].each{|e| puts e}
		else
			self.dialog1()
			return nil
		end   
	end

	###
	unless file_loaded?(__FILE__)
		UI.menu("Plugins").add_item("Cancel") { CANCEL_TEST.run() }
	end
	###
	file_loaded(__FILE__)

	# load"CANCEL_TEST.rb"
end#module

IT is now properly structured to loop back into itself is needs be...

tomot

Thanks TIG:

I would never have been able to figure out the self.run routine on my own!