[Plugin Library] Win32API and Win32OLE so files

[Dan Rathbun]

Since someone is bound to ask, here are the online reference rdocs for these 2 libraries:

• Win32API rdoc
• WIN32OLE rdoc

[sumaster]

Thank you very much . . .

[Dan Rathbun]

Changed first line so it cannot be overlooked, to:

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Windows ONLY (Do NOT install on Mac!)

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... and added 2 more copies of it, for a total of 3 warnings.

[glro]

i see win32api.so is related to a specific version of sketchup

is there a new version, available or necessary, for sketchup 2013?

@dan rathbun said:

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Windows ONLY (Do NOT install on Mac!)

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Not a plugin. These files may be required by other plugins.

The plugin author should list either of these files as a dependancy, if you need them:

• Win32API.so

• Win32OLE.so

( You do not need these if you have a full Ruby install, and pushed the paths to it's lib dirs into the $LOAD_PATH array.)

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Windows ONLY (Do NOT install on Mac!)

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Sketchup 8.0,8.0M1, 8.0M2

• Ruby v 1.8.6 - patchlevel 287

• [attachment=1:2uaslkv3]<!-- ia1 -->v186_p287_so.zip<!-- ia1 -->[/attachment:2uaslkv3]

Sketchup 6.x, 7.x

• Ruby v 1.8.0 - patchlevel 0 (initial release)

• [attachment=0:2uaslkv3]<!-- ia0 -->v180_p0_so.zip<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:2uaslkv3]

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Windows ONLY (Do NOT install on Mac!)

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I post these because some plugins are distro'ing old versions, or some topics here at SCF have old versions.
This can be a common place for users to get up to date versions of these files.

[Dan Rathbun]

@glro said:

I see win32api.so is related to a specific version of SketchUp ...

It is compiled with a specific version of Ruby.

@glro said:

...is there a new version, available or necessary, for SketchUp 2013?

At the console, check global constants:
RUBY_VERSION
and
RUBY_PATCHLEVEL

You'll see SketchUp 2013 is still the same as v8 (on the PC.)

[glro]

@dan rathbun said:

@glro said:

I see win32api.so is related to a specific version of SketchUp ...

It is compiled with a specific version of Ruby.

@glro said:

...is there a new version, available or necessary, for SketchUp 2013?

At the console, check global constants:
RUBY_VERSION
and
RUBY_PATCHLEVEL

You'll see SketchUp 2013 is still the same as v8 (on the PC.)

thank you for answering

I was wondering about Ruby version for sketchup 2013, because win32API.so gives an error message in sketchup 13

require "Win32API"
or
require 'Win32API.so'
or
require 'Win32API'

seems not to be compatible with sketchup 2013

[Dan Rathbun]

@glro said:

seems not to be compatible with sketchup 2013

(1) where is the so file on your machine ?

(2) please post the error message

[swajime]

Thank you Dan for this. I've tried starting with http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1120225/ruby-and-accdb-ms-access but I am getting an error:
connection = WIN32OLE.new('ADODB.Connection')
Error: #<NameError: (eval):27: uninitialized constant WIN32OLE>
Can you please help me to get started with opening a simple database myDatabase.accdb ?

[swajime]

I have this directly in the SketchUp ruby console:

require 'win32ole'
true
if defined?(WIN32OLE); connection = WIN32OLE.new('ADODB.Connection'); end
Error; #<WIN32OLERuntimeError; (eval);27;in `initialize'; unknown OLE server; `ADODB.Connection'
    HRESULT error code;0x800401f3
      >

The link you put up did not come through.

[Dan Rathbun]

@swajime said:

The link you put up did not come through.

The original links in the 2nd post still work.
(It's just that the editor has decided to encode pasted URLs, suddenly.)

[Dan Rathbun]

I suggest starting a new (if there is not one,) topic in the Developers Forum.

[swajime]

Thank you. I did as you said and started a new topic http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=180%26amp;t=55202%26amp;e=0.

[Dan Rathbun]

@swajime said:

Error: #<NameError: (eval):27: uninitialized constant WIN32OLE>

Did you first have the load statement:

require("win32ole")

or require("win32ole.so")

Then you can test if the class was defined, via:

if defined?(WIN32OLE)

  connection = WIN32OLE.new('ADODB.Connection')

 # more code ...

end

There is a chapter on WIN32OLE in:
[doc] Programming Ruby (The "Pick-Axe" Book)

[Dan Rathbun]

Did you see the link ?

@dan rathbun said:

Since someone is bound to ask, here are the online reference rdocs for these 2 libraries:

• Win32API rdoc

• WIN32OLE rdoc

[Dan Rathbun]

@dan rathbun said:

There is a chapter on WIN32OLE in:
[doc] Programming Ruby (The "Pick-Axe" Book)

Sysops have fixed the editor URL links (above.)

[glro]

@dan rathbun said:

@glro said:

seems not to be compatible with sketchup 2013

(1) where is the so file on your machine ?

(2) please post the error message

1: in the plugins folder of sketchup

2:

[glro]

@dan rathbun said:

@glro said:

seems not to be compatible with sketchup 2013

(1) where is the so file on your machine ?

(2) please post the error message

sorry

problem solved

you were right: win32API.so and sketchup 2013 are compatible

thank you

[Dan Rathbun]

@glro said:

sorry ... problem solved

you were right: win32API.so and sketchup 2013 are compatible

Yes I have no problem loading it.

What was your issue ?

[glro]

@dan rathbun said:

@glro said:

sorry ... problem solved

you were right: win32API.so and sketchup 2013 are compatible

Yes I have no problem loading it.

What was your issue ?

still don't know

changed something (don't know what) and the problem disappeared

thank you for your comments

[Dan Rathbun]

FYI

SketchUp 2014

• Ruby v 2.0.0 - patchlevel 247

• win32ole.so file is included

• Win32API.rb file is included, which is a wrapper into the newer DL library, but allows the older WIn32API style calls.
  %(#BF4000)[Do not copy these files from older Ruby versions into SketchUp's "Plugins" folder,
  (or any of SketchUp's folders,) for versions 14 or higher !]