Detect Linux from the RUBY or Sketchup API

fredo6

Any way to detect the home system on the computer is on Linux, either from the RUBY API or from the Sketchup API?

The issue I have found is that the ordering of files (so impacting the order of rb files loaded by Sketchup) is different on Linux versus Windows and Mac.

At least the ! sign is not considered coming earlier than the alpha numeric characters.

This is a big issue because I assumed that it would be the case. For instance Fredo6_!LibFredo6.rb should load BEFORE any other Fredo6_xxxx rb files.

Thanks

Fredo

TIG

The ENV returns some OS specific entries...

MAC it's TMPDIR
WIN it's TEMP && USERPROFILE
LINUX it's USERPROFILE

So if the user has ENV['USERPROFILE'] BUT NOT TEMP then it's LINUX ?

fredo6

TIG,

Thanks very much.

By the way don't you have the ! problem on Linux with the PluuginStore (!Sketchucation_loader.rb)?

Fredo

TIG

The initial ! has never been reported as an issue.
All it would do is load SketchUcation menu later on in the Plugins menu ?
It's just used to load them first, so they are not lost in a long list...
I use # for several of my own plugins as that puts them near the top - not sure how that sorts in Linux either !!

slbaumgartner

The old standby RUBY_PLATFORM won't work?

TIG

@slbaumgartner said:

The old standby RUBY_PLATFORM won't work?
It's likely to mimic Windows setup - I found the ENV way the best trap...

driven

TextureResizer.rb by Andreas Eisenbarth uses...

@platform = RUBY_PLATFORM.include?('darwin')? "mac" ; (RUBY_PLATFORM.include?('mswin')? (!ENV["WINEPREFIX"].nil?? "wine" ; "mswin") ; "other")

john

tt_su

I would place my bets with Andreas - as he use Linux and probably have figured this out. Looking for a Wine related environment variable makes sense since Wine would make SketchUp think it's running Windows - RUBY_PLATFORM wouldn't say linux.