Ruby panel on/off

artmusicstudio

hi,
is there a way to hide the ruby panel from the code?

switch on: Sketchup.send_action "showRubyPanel:" works.

switch off : Sketchup.send_action "hideRubyPanel:" ?????

thanx stan

tt_su

What if there are multiple SketchUp windows open with the Ruby Console...?

icehuli

@tt_su said:

What if there are multiple SketchUp windows open with the Ruby Console...?

It will not work perfectly.
so.. update:


require 'sketchup'
require "Win32API"

rb_console_title  = $suStrings.GetString("Ruby Console")
winapi_FindWindow = Win32API.new("user32.dll", "FindWindow", ['P','P'], 'N')
winapi_SendMessage = Win32API.new("user32.dll", "SendMessage", ['N','N','N','P'], 'N')
winapi_GetWindowThreadProcessId = Win32API.new("user32.dll", "GetWindowThreadProcessId", ['N', 'P'], 'N')
winapi_GetActiveWindow= Win32API.new("user32.dll", "GetActiveWindow", [], 'N')

rb_console_window = winapi_FindWindow.call(0, rb_console_title)
active_window = winapi_GetActiveWindow.call()
active_pid = winapi_GetWindowThreadProcessId.call(active_window,0)
rb_console_pid = winapi_GetWindowThreadProcessId.call(rb_console_window,0)

winapi_SendMessage.call(rb_console_window,0x0010,0,"") if active_pid  == rb_console_pid

icehuli

On Windows PC:
you can do it with WinAPI. The script is from https://sites.google.com/site/jimfoltz/my-sketchup-plugins/ruby-toolbar.

check the better version two floors down


require 'sketchup'
require "Win32API"

rb_console_title  = $suStrings.GetString("Ruby Console")
winapi_findwindow = Win32API.new("user32.dll", "FindWindow", ['P','P'], 'N')
winapi_sendmessage = Win32API.new("user32.dll", "SendMessage", ['N','N','N','P'], 'N')

rb_console_window = winapi_findwindow.call(0, rb_console_title )
#send the control a "WM_CLOSE" message (0x0010)
winapi_sendmessage.call(rb_console_window,0x0010,0,"")

artmusicstudio

hey, very good idea to go with win.api

i use this trick in my excel basic sound database to controll external programs from the code.
i will try tonight and report!

thanx stan

tt_su

I remembered I'd been messing around with this myself a while back. For reference:
https://bitbucket.org/thomthom/tt-library-2/src/80af18d802d2576f54016d3c48f61a5a31fc6fd9/TT_Lib2/win32.rb?at=Version%202.9#cl-220

https://bitbucket.org/thomthom/tt-library-2/src/80af18d802d2576f54016d3c48f61a5a31fc6fd9/TT_Lib2/win32.rb?at=Version%202.9#cl-380

artmusicstudio

@tt_su said:

I remembered I'd been messing around with this myself a while back. For reference:
https://bitbucket.org/thomthom/tt-library-2/src/80af18d802d2576f54016d3c48f61a5a31fc6fd9/TT_Lib2/win32.rb?at=Version%202.9#cl-220

https://bitbucket.org/thomthom/tt-library-2/src/80af18d802d2576f54016d3c48f61a5a31fc6fd9/TT_Lib2/win32.rb?at=Version%202.9#cl-380

hi,
from here the links are broken.
maybe only free for the "expert group" ?

regards stan

tt_su

hm.. that looks like a SCF redirection error....

Gábor

@tt_su said:

hm.. that looks like a SCF redirection error....

Redirect bug corrected. If the error message is cached, a browser cache-erase might be necessary.