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    • Dan RathbunD Offline
      Dan Rathbun
      last edited by

      @unknownuser said:

      If anyone nows how to solve this let me know

      You really should have started a new topic for your issue. (This topic about errors in the online API Dictionary.)

      You need to learn to read Exception messages. The full message will have a line number in your file where the error happen.
      You are calling the instance method transform! upon an object that you think is a Sketchup::Group instance (guessing,) ... but something had gone wrong in a previous statement when you assigned the ref to the object identifier, and some other method returned nil (the singleton instance of the NilClass.)

      It is standard in Ruby to first check for success, before continuing.

      obj = ents.add_edge( pt1, p2 )
      if obj # evals true if not false or nil
        obj.transform!(tr)
      else
        UI.messagebox("Error created the Edge object!")
      end
      
      

      I'm not here much anymore.

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      • Dan RathbunD Offline
        Dan Rathbun
        last edited by

        @dan rathbun said:

        @unknownuser said:

        If anyone nows how to solve this let me know

        You really should have started a new topic for your issue. (This topic about errors in the online API Dictionary.)

        Don't worry about that now (this topic is so long and cluttered it does not matter much. And likely will be locked when the next version of the online API Dictionary is updated.)

        @dan rathbun said:

        You need to learn to read Exception messages. The full message will have a line number in your file where the error happen.

        Move your file (and all your authored scripts,) into a "Renderiza" subdir of the Plugins dir.

        When debugging.. start Sketchup, then open the Ruby Console.

        Enter load("Renderiza/myfile.rb")

        You'll see a more complete Exception message output to the console.

        I'm not here much anymore.

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        • renderizaR Offline
          renderiza
          last edited by

          Thanks Dan Rathbun for teaching me how to debug inside Ruby Console.
          I forgor to post the topic link I was referring to…
          http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=25498

          I still can’t find a way to load the jumper.rb and animate the object when active but I will sonn figure it out. And I promise that for next time I will make a new topic for my issues. 👍

          Thanks

          [url=https://www.sketchupcode.com/:z3kqsidd]My Extensions ...[/url:z3kqsidd]

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          • W Offline
            wood_galaxy
            last edited by

            Hi !
            I haven't seen if it had benn reported but :
            In Attribute reporting Tutorial in the function :

            def clean_for_xml(value)
                value = value.to_s
                value = value.gsub(/\</,'<')
                value = value.gsub(/\>/,'>')
                value = value.gsub(/\"/,'"')
                value = value.gsub(/\'/,''')
                return value
              end
            

            The last gsub make that the rest of code is a comment...

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            • TIGT Offline
              TIG Moderator
              last edited by

              @wood_galaxy

              ???
              .gsub(/\'/,''')
              should be
              .gsub(/\'/,"'")
              to 'wrap' the lone ' properly...

              I'm unclear what you put in and what you expect to come out here 😕
              The
              value = value.gsub(/\</,'<')
              could be made as
              value.gsub**!**(/\</,'<')
              changing 'value' rather than reassigning it to a modified version of itself.
              You could also 'string' the gsub changes into one line...
              return value.to_s.gsub(/\</,'<').gsub(/\>/,'>').gsub(/\"/,'"').gsub(/\'/,"'")
              Although it's easier to read what you are doing your way.
              It'd probably be slightly faster - but relatively unnoticeable if only a few values are processed...
              Can you clarify?

              TIG

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              • W Offline
                wood_galaxy
                last edited by

                I thought this topic was used to identify inconsistencies in the API doc.
                I had just noticed that the code of the tutorial was a mistake.
                I started in ruby but I think the line "value = value.gsub(/'/,''')" contains an error.
                Maybe I'm wrong and that it is normal that the two following functions can be found commented.
                So TIG you say it should be .gsub(/'/,"'"). That's what I wanted to know and get noticed.
                Sorry for the inconvenience.

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                • TIGT Offline
                  TIG Moderator
                  last edited by

                  @wood_galaxy

                  Now I understand you. 😒
                  It is indeed a typo in that example code and it should be "'" NOT ''' - the first two '' are taken as an empty string and the third one as a start of a new string - so it's not really a 'rem' - a # or =begin...=end does that in Ruby - it's simply made all of the following code into a string until it reaches the next ' which happens to be inside a comment "can**'**t", thereafter the code resumes again, but of course at that point it's garbled and will return errors and not work...
                  This type of error is sometimes hard to find but if you are using Notepad++ it'd be obvious, as the syntax highlighting would should a massive block of 'string' text where it shouldn't be, so looking at it's start/end delimiters ['] tells us what's up and what needs fixing...
                  See the original and the correction [the rest of the code - with the exception of the unnecessary $ variable in the menu setup seems OK]Capture.PNGCapture1.PNG
                  I thought you were using some of it for your own ends and having problems...
                  There are MANY errors in the API examples - it's been discussed, and indeed the main API docs used to have a user comments section at the end of each page where we pointed out the mistakes.
                  When Google moved the content these were 'lost'.
                  SketchUp still have the text but it's the way of including it that is lacking.
                  Various ways of introducing a 'wiki-like' system have been mooted, but nothing to date...

                  TIG

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                  • H Offline
                    honkinberry
                    last edited by

                    I finally tracked down a bug that popped up with 7.1, but not sure if this is the best place to note it.

                    But for Transformation.scaling, both (scale) and (pt, scale) have a bug.
                    One instead needs to use (xscale, yscale, zscale), even though all 3 parameters will be the same.

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                    • thomthomT Offline
                      thomthom
                      last edited by

                      Yea, that's a nasty one. It used to be in the comments of the API docs, but it disappeared some time ago.

                      Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                      List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                      • M Offline
                        mptak
                        last edited by

                        Is anyone else having a hard time accessing the Sketchup Ruby API today?

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                        • thomthomT Offline
                          thomthom
                          last edited by

                          Yeah, the URLs got messed up when they launched the new site. Hope the fix the forwarding soon. You find working links at the bottom of sketchup.com

                          Sent from my LT25i using Tapatalk 2

                          Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                          List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                            Aerilius
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                            For now, you can add ".php" in the address bar.

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                            • thomthomT Offline
                              thomthom
                              last edited by

                              index.jpg

                              Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                              List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                                XorUnison
                                last edited by

                                I would assume typos can still be posted here? If so, here's one:
                                http://www.sketchup.com/intl/en/developer/docs/ourdoc/tool#onKeyDown

                                Tool.onKeyDown SketchUp 6.0+

                                The onKeyDown method is called by SketchUp when the user presses a key on the keyboard. If you want to get input from the VCB, you should implement onUserText rather than this method.

                                This method is can be used for special keys such as the Shift key

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                                • TommyKT Offline
                                  TommyK
                                  last edited by

                                  Model Observer:
                                  onAfterComponentSaveAs(model)
                                  and
                                  onBeforeComponentSaveAs(model)

                                  The "model" parameter is actually a ComponentInstance object - the one currently selected. This is the case at least in Sketchup 2015.

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                                    Talha222 Newcomers
                                    last edited by

                                    Yeah! really great information about documentation about API .
                                    Thank You so much i will be helpful for me

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