Sketchup pro 2014 plugin user

Rich O Brien

What happens if you try it on a different user account who's name has no special characters or spaces?

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TIG

Your Windows User-Name contains non-ASCII characters.
Before SketchUp v2014 came out with its newer version of Ruby this was a known issue on PCs.
Many Plugins need to write/store files into the User's Temp folder.

If the path to that contains a special character then Ruby1.8 can fail in some File operations since it cannot find a folder in the path that has an 'accented' name - like your User account.

I see your example screen-shot refers to v2014 although your SCF User Profile says v2013 ?
Although v2014 can now cope with accented characters in file-paths, they still need to be UTF-8... what is the character in your name? it is indistinct on my screen.
Is it 'õ' ?
What is your locale/language - Hungary/Magyar ?

Some special-characters might not be recognized by v2014 as being suitably encoded.

Please try these in the Ruby Console and report back [copy/paste] the results:

$:.grep(/[Pp]lugins/)
--> result
Typically should be:
["C:/Users/YourUserName/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2014/SketchUp/Plugins"]
pf=Sketchup.find_support_file('Plugins')
--> result
Typically should be:
C:/Users/YourUserName/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2014/SketchUp/Plugins

File.exist?(pf)
--> result
Typically should be 'true'

pf.tr("\\","/").split('/')
--> result
Typically should be
["C:", "Users", "YourUserName", "AppData", "Roaming", "SketchUp", "SketchUp 2014", "SketchUp", "Plugins"]

Any failures with these tests show something is wrong in the way SketchUp v2014/Ruby2.0 is working with your accented user-name...

If you make another User-account without any accents in the name, then it should then work OK when used with v8/v2013/v2014...

Please Note:
A bug has been uncovered in v2014 which should be fixed in the next maintenance release - User-Names containing UTF-8 accents should now be OK, BUT if there's a ' [single quote] in the name it will fail to load any Plugins at all ! So until MR1 is released it's best to keep your Windows User-Name uncomplicated.

Denver76

thanks

Denver76

I creat the new user account: User / dani

Now it works in sketchup 2014

thanks for the tip

tt_su

I just traced down a bug in Ruby that could be related to this:
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=180%26amp;t=57017

If the plugin uses FILE the encoding is marked incorrectly and Ruby will mangle the path when it tries to load it.

TIG

Major bummer !

arqpadao

Hello guys,
I'm with my license 2014 installed and everything seems ok.
I tried to install Libfredo 6 + RoundCorner - latest versions and not working.
Displays the folders they are installed, but in SketchUp the attached message and nothing appears.
Please can someone show me the light at the end of the tunnel?
thank you.

TIG

You must also install LibFredo.
It's explained in the tool's first page.
You need to restart SketchUp afterwards...
Most of Fredo's tools need the Lib installing too.
It is available from the PluginStore...
It is shown in your list but might have been mis-installed.
How did you install the tool and the Lib which is shown in the list ?
Using the RBZ and the Preferences > Extensions > Install... or the SketchUcation Plugin Store dialog AutoInstaller ?
The installed path to the Plugins folder looks very odd ?
If you use this in the Ruby Console is the path that's returned where these files are installed ??
Sketchup.find_support_file('Plugins')

arqpadao

Hello Tig
Everything was installed as you said.
I downloaded the latest versions, installed via rbz.
The files are in the correct folder.
And does not work, is giving the information of the previous picture.
C Users / padão / AppData / Roaming / SketchUp / SketchUp 2014/SketchUp/Plugins
The possibility I see is that users are not accepted containing names not supported by ASCII.

fredo6

That must be the problem (i.e. non-Ascii name).

Thomthom has signaled the problem (which is in variable FILE) and suggested a fix, but pending further investigation.

Fredo

TIG

@padão

As Fredo says...
Accents [non-ASCII characters] in file-paths always broke earlier versions of SketchUp on PCs.
With v2014 the newer Ruby2 ought to resolve this, BUT it was discovered after it was launched that the current version still breaks the reading of the __FILE__ variable in some circumstances.
Your Plugins folder-path includes pad**ã**o
So that accented character is almost certainly what's causing the issue.
Thomthom came up with a temporary fix and the next maintenance release of v2014 will hopefully resolve this limitation...

Until then you could try this temporary fix:
Edit the two Fredo files with Notepad/Notepad++ and find where __FILE__ is used.
[You'll also need to repeat it in any other Fredo tool's rb files you use]

Change:
Fredo6_!LibFredo6.rb Line#113 @lib_fredo_sudir = File.dirname __FILE__
to read:
if defined?(Encoding) @lib_fredo_sudir = File.dirname(__FILE__).force_encoding("UTF-8") ### v2014 lashup else @lib_fredo_sudir = File.dirname(__FILE__) end

AND in:
Fredo6_RoundCorner.rb Line#26 f6__file__ = __FILE__.gsub(/\\/, '/')
becomes:
if defined?(Encoding) f6__file__ = __FILE__.force_encoding("UTF-8").gsub(/\\/, '/') ### v2014 lashup else f6__file__ = __FILE__.gsub(/\\/, '/') end

It that works let us know

tt_su

Yes, FILE in SU2014 will not have the right encoding for Unicode characters. At the moment forcing the encoding works - but I cannot guaranty that will work in the future. We've filed bugs with the Ruby developers and once a fix has been implemented in Ruby we can give better recommendation on how to handle this.
So forcing the encoding works for now, but developers beware that this might need adjustment in the future. You might want to wrap the fix up in a utility function you can quickly edit later on.