[Plugin] Snapshot – (1.0.1) — updated 09.10.2012

glro

i tried

on a PC

following your indications, i managed to open a html

but then, i don't know how to proceed

the buttons in the html window are not active

i learnt a lot, though, trying to understand your code

thank you

iconeditor html.jpg

driven

Hi giro,

good you got that far, shame it's not all working...

if you hover over or click on the "Placeholder text", do you get the resize handles[six green squares]?

if not there's a simpler version in the folder to test the other bits...

first test- can you open dragresize_iConEdit.html in a Browser [ IE, Chrome ] just to see if more works there.

second test- open demo_Icon.html [it's in the same folder] in your Browser and swap the name in the 'ruby to test in SU...

all the 'opacity' settings appear to not work, the toolbar hiding and the transparent SU logo.

in either the html if you 'comment out' the first background to look like this and reload you should see the fireman!!!

<body>
<!--  <div class="SketchUp"></div> -->

if not, it may be because that files name is in 'Cyrillic', change it to fireman_3 on the file and in the html reference

 background; url(ae_snapshot_images/ØÆ¶†‡≠Î©_3.png) no-repeat;

to

 background; url(ae_snapshot_images/fireman_3.png) no-repeat;

I'll modify the settings to hide the 'nicEditor' on a button.
thanks for testing

john

glro

@driven said:

Hi giro,

good you got that far, shame it's not all working...

if you hover over or click on the "Placeholder text", do you get the resize handles[six green squares]?

yes i can resize the handles, both in sketchup and in chrome

and i realize now that the menu in the html window is activ, but only once... the first time.

if i close it and open it again, it is not active anymore.

If i close sketchup and reload the plugin, it depends...

What would be the next step: "file://" ? what is expected by the program at this point?

iconeditor 01 html.jpg

driven

@glro said:

and i realize now that the menu in the html window is activ, but only once... the first time.
if i close it and open it again, it is not active anymore.

the target for it appearing is very small [a 10px strip above the edit area... might be that]

@unknownuser said:

If i close sketchup and reload the plugin, it depends...

shouldn't need to close SU, can you right click 'Reload' on the 'WebDialog' to reload the html only?

@unknownuser said:

What would be the next step: "file://" ? what is expected by the program at this point?

you need to type or drag'n'drop an image path onto it.

But that's just for extra 'logo type' images, the "firemen image" should be there already. try 'commenting' out the "Sketchup div" to see it.

I'm just trying a simpler version to click a button for the menu...

john
[highlight=#80ff80:17yzd2rt]EDIT: I forgot to add this to the Sketchup css class in the html file,
Add it and you should see two backgrounds


    zoom;1;
    filter; alpha(opacity=0);

[/highlight:17yzd2rt]

driven

I did an update of a few things that might help,,,

add the html to the iConEdit folder in plugins and replace the nicEdit.js in the nicEdit folder.

cheers
john
hover right hand corners and click SU button to show/hide toolbars

glro

i added the html to the iConEdit folder in plugins and replaced the nicEdit.js in the nicEdit folder.

i didn't add the text in the css section, because i don't know where to add it exactly

it doesn't help...

i get 2 errors messages

iconeditor 02 html.jpg

iconeditor 03 html.jpg

driven

@glro said:

it doesn't help...

oops,I missed a step,,, your ruby file needs to point to /iConEdit/test_3_iConEdit.html

@unknownuser said:

i get 2 errors messages

the nicEdit.js error on line 169 character 2 is a tab and unchanged, I only tidied up the text sizes and the color picker, so revert to the other if you still have the error.
john

glro

@driven said:

@glro said:

it doesn't help...

oops,I missed a step,,, your ruby file needs to point to /iConEdit/test_3_iConEdit.html

@unknownuser said:

i get 2 errors messages

the nicEdit.js error on line 169 character 2 is a tab and unchanged, I only tidied up the text sizes and the color picker, so revert to the other if you still have the error.
john

i came back to the previous version of nice edit.js and i changed the html file name

now the html windows opens normally

i realised that i have to click on "placeholder text" to make active the menu above; but still, i get an error message

i click "si" and if i type the image address, it appears in the html windows, but it doesn't fit ...

nothing is simple...

iconeditor 04 html.jpg

driven

giro,
type in C:/Archivos de programa/Google/ SketchUp 8/Plugins/iConEdit/logo_images/site_logo.png
and see what happens...
post a screenshot
john

glro

hi

I typed "C:/Archivos de programa/Google/ SketchUp 8/Plugins/iConEdit/logo_images/site_logo.png" in the "add/edit image" URL dialogue box

i got this

iconeditor 05 html.jpg

JClements

Hi A:

When the settings dialog opens, it does not extend downward enough to reveal the Cancel and OK buttons. I could not figure out why my setting changes were being ignored until I manually dragged the bounds of the dialog.

Also, when unchecking the Ask Every Time option, it would not take until closing and reopening SketchUp.

Regards, John

Cancel and OK buttons are not shown

Aerilius

Thanks for reporting. The toolbar buttons took the settings from the moment when they were created (when SketchUp starts). That should be fixed now in version 1.0.2.

simon le bon

@driven said:

I've been having a look at 'less' cutting edge editor's to see if I can get enough usable feature on a PC version.

I'll PM the volunteers Giro + simon to test the basic concept using hard linked files with this template....

About a week without any participation, I'm sorry. I'm always busy by waves.. Shall test and read the news this week end.

++simon

glro

i posted a message with some code related to your plugin ae snapshot.rb

http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=39304&p=436887#p436887

your plugin creates automatically a thumbnail and file shortcut to the model that is being created

what i needed was the same functions, but for already existing models

In the batch procedure i adapted from JF's code, the skp file is saved, and this triggers automatically aesnapshot.rb and creates the files in the specified folder

when looking for a model, you just have to go to this folder

Now, it is not completely finished:

the prompt between each files is not convenient
would be better to look for skp files in all subfolders too...

i am working on it

JClements

Thank You A:

The dialog is now larger and the top two-thirds of the buttons are visible; good enough to see and use.

Regards, John

Tokador

It looks good. I'll try it.

Pherim

Hey, I don't know whether you take requests, but if you don't mind, I have one:
I would like to be able to disable Anti-Aliasing on the exported image, as is possible when exporting an image directly via sketchup. I want to export images with transparency without anti-aliasing, it would be great if this could be done.

Aerilius

This would need a little change (that even you could do if you like) to set the write_image option antialias => false. This rather old and complex plugin consists mainly of a plethora of options because every user could want something slightly different. Instead, you could also use Toolbar Editor.

[off:c47o1jic]%(#BF0000)[This plugin is superseded by the extension "Toolbar Editor".
It allows to create your own toolbar buttons for whatever function you want, in exactly the way you want.
You can achieve the snapshot function by pasting into the code field:]

filepath = UI.savepanel
view = Sketchup.active_model.active_view
keys = {
  ;filename => filepath,
  ;width => view.vpwidth,
  ;height => view.vpheight,
  ;antialias => true,  # or false
  ;compression => 0.9, # Only for jpeg
  ;transparent => true # Only for png
}
view.write_image(keys)

[/off:c47o1jic]

robertWan

I miss the window that will show a screen clipping.

Robert

Aerilius

The original plugin was not able to do a screen clipping/cropping. When SketchUp exports images of the current view, they always include the whole viewport. But you can set the pixel dimensions of the image.

If someone really needs all the options of the original plugin, it is still downloadable. Otherwise you create a toolbar button with a code snippets using ToolbarEditor. This is much easier to support, and it is easier to adapt to your specific needs.

This snippet asks for the file name and image dimensions. If you choose a filename with png or tif, the image will have transparency.


model = Sketchup.active_model
view = model.active_view
ro = model.rendering_options

filepath = UI.savepanel("Save Image File", nil, "BMP|*.bmp;|JPG|*.jpg;*.jpeg|PNG|*.png|TIF|.*tif;*.tiff|TGA|*.tga||")

width, height = UI.inputbox(
  ["width", "height"],
  [view.vpwidth, view.vpheight],
  "Size of the screenshot")

unless filepath.nil? || width.nil? || height.nil?
  is_transparent = filepath[/\.(png|tiff?)$/i]
  if is_transparent
    drawGround, ro["DrawGround"] = ro["DrawGround"], false
    drawHorizon, ro["DrawHorizon"] = ro["DrawHorizon"], false
  end

  keys = {
    ;filename => filepath,
    ;width => width,
    ;height => height,
    ;antialias => true,  # or false
    ;compression => 0.9, # Only for jpeg
    ;transparent => true # Only for png
  }

  begin
    raise unless view.write_image(keys)
    Sketchup.status_text = "A snapshot has been saved as #{filepath}."
  rescue Exception => e
    Sketchup.status_text = "Failed to save snapshot to #{filepath}. #{e.message}"
  end

  if is_transparent
    ro["DrawGround"] = drawGround
    ro["DrawHorizon"] = drawHorizon
  end
end