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    • I Offline
      imranbangash
      last edited by

      Can anyone help me? i get this error message in sketchup 2013

      Error Loading File compoSprayToolbar.rb
      undefined method `compSpray_env' for main:Object

      😳

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      • TIGT Offline
        TIG Moderator
        last edited by

        Do you have the full error message ?
        How have you installed this RBZ ?
        If you have the latest v8[>=M2] or newer then Preferences > Extensions > Install button will install the RBZ contents properly.
        Manually installing from an RBZ suffixed .zip and manually moving files/folders into Plugins is a recipe for disaster.
        The 'loader' .rb and its subfolder[s] of all of its helper files etc needs to be kept intact...
        Can we see you Plugins folder contents and the tool's subfolder's too ?

        TIG

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          rhinoferoce
          last edited by

          Hello, I have the exact same error here, with SU2013 Pro.
          Used to work but broke up after update through Sketchucation Plugin Store plugin.
          I tried to uninstall and reinstall the last version through the extension installer in preferences, but it still doesn't work.

          "Error Loading File compoSprayToolbar.rb
          undefined method `compSpray_env' for main:Object" is the only message I get when launching sketchup. Then no toolbar...

          If anyone have an idea...

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          • TIGT Offline
            TIG Moderator
            last edited by

            I'll have a look into it...
            But first, can you post the FULL error-message...
            It is usually much longer than that 😕

            TIG

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            • TIGT Offline
              TIG Moderator
              last edited by

              More info...
              The command [aka method] compSpray_env() is called early on in the loading of the loader-file compoSprayToolbar.rb in line #9.
              This is set up by in line #43 of the CompoUtils.rbs file within the ../Plugins/CompoSpray subfolder.
              That file is 'required' in line #5 of the loader-file, so it should be already loaded and ready to use.
              It works fine for me in all recent versions...

              Can you confirm you have the relevant files in place...
              If not, try manually removing the loader-file and the subfolder, then reinstall from the latest RBZ, then restart SketchUp...

              If it still doesn't work, can you type this + <enter> in the Ruby Console and report the result...
              compSpray_env()
              then
              load "compoSprayToolbar.rb"
              then again
              compSpray_env()
              Does the tool's submenu then appear under the Draw menu 😕

              TIG

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              • TIGT Offline
                TIG Moderator
                last edited by

                Here's an updated version http://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=compoSpray
                It corrects an obscure code error that was preventing the toolset loading in SketchUp versions earlier than v2014.
                It should now work in all SketchUp versions [ at least those > 7 ?]

                TIG

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                  AcesHigh
                  last edited by

                  tried installing the latest version at 2015 and all I get when I use the ruby console with your commands above is "Error: No such file or directory"

                  this is the message I get when starting SKP2015

                  Error Loading File compoSprayToolbar.rb
                  Error: No such file or directory - C:/Users/Usuário/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2015/SketchUp/Plugins/CompoSpray/CompoSprayUS.lingvo
                  c:/users/usuário/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2015/sketchup/plugins/compospray/compoutils.rbs:999:in readlines' c:/users/usuário/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2015/sketchup/plugins/compospray/compoutils.rbs:999:in cs_translate'
                  c:/users/usuário/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2015/sketchup/plugins/compospray/compoutils.rbs:50:in compSpray_env' C:/Users/Usuário/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2015/SketchUp/Plugins/compoSprayToolbar.rb:9:in <top (required)>'

                  which is weird, because there IS that path with those files inside. Here, right clicked at CompoSprayUS.lingvo and in properties copied it´s path:

                  C:\Users\Usuário\AppData\Roaming\SketchUp\SketchUp 2015\SketchUp\Plugins\CompoSpray

                  the only difference to the path I get at the SKP error message is the direction of the slash characters... backslash in properties, forward slash in Sketchup error window...

                  C:/Users/Usuário/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2015/SketchUp/Plugins/CompoSpray/

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                  • A Offline
                    AcesHigh
                    last edited by

                    @nghminh81 said:

                    Thanks so much Oxer and MTriple. Your file works perfectly with my sketchup 2014!

                    To anyone who using Windows and still can't install it: Please extract files(ComposprayToolbar.rb and 1 folder Compospray) to "C:\Program Files (x86)\SketchUp\SketchUp 2014\Tools".

                    DON'T EXTRACT FILES TO "C:\Users\XX\AppData\Roaming\SketchUp\SketchUp 2014\SketchUp\Plugins"
                    AND IF THEY WERE THERE (Because you tried to install it) Just DELETE.

                    following your method, it is now working with Sketchup 2015.

                    I don´t even know why I try installing by using the rbz file from inside Sketchup. With Sketchup 7 and 8 I installed 99% of the extensions by unzipping into the plugins folder.

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                    • tt_suT Offline
                      tt_su
                      last edited by

                      @aceshigh said:

                      @nghminh81 said:

                      Thanks so much Oxer and MTriple. Your file works perfectly with my sketchup 2014!

                      To anyone who using Windows and still can't install it: Please extract files(ComposprayToolbar.rb and 1 folder Compospray) to "C:\Program Files (x86)\SketchUp\SketchUp 2014\Tools".

                      DON'T EXTRACT FILES TO "C:\Users\XX\AppData\Roaming\SketchUp\SketchUp 2014\SketchUp\Plugins"
                      AND IF THEY WERE THERE (Because you tried to install it) Just DELETE.

                      following your method, it is now working with Sketchup 2015.

                      I don´t even know why I try installing by using the rbz file from inside Sketchup. With Sketchup 7 and 8 I installed 99% of the extensions by unzipping into the plugins folder.

                      I would strongly recommend to NOT follow that advice. Windows tries to enforce a strict lock down to Program Files. On many systems extensions will not be able to write to that location - which often they want to.
                      I suspect that some of the issue in this case is due to non-English characters in the username. This should in theory be fixed in Ruby 2.0 - but there appear to be some bugs in the Windows version of Ruby. It should however be possible for the developers to work around this. Hard to tell exactly in this case without knowing the source.

                      To work around this until the developer have a chance to update the extension you can try to install to the AllUser profile:

                      C:\ProgramData\SketchUp\SketchUp 2015\SketchUp

                      AFIK that should not have unicode characters. Create a Plugins folder and extract the RBZ content there. (Rename RBZ to ZIP and extract like you did in SU6-SU8).

                      User should really not be modifying files in Program Files. Windows will fight back.

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                        AcesHigh
                        last edited by

                        @tt_su said:

                        @aceshigh said:

                        @nghminh81 said:

                        Thanks so much Oxer and MTriple. Your file works perfectly with my sketchup 2014!

                        To anyone who using Windows and still can't install it: Please extract files(ComposprayToolbar.rb and 1 folder Compospray) to "C:\Program Files (x86)\SketchUp\SketchUp 2014\Tools".

                        DON'T EXTRACT FILES TO "C:\Users\XX\AppData\Roaming\SketchUp\SketchUp 2014\SketchUp\Plugins"
                        AND IF THEY WERE THERE (Because you tried to install it) Just DELETE.

                        following your method, it is now working with Sketchup 2015.

                        I don´t even know why I try installing by using the rbz file from inside Sketchup. With Sketchup 7 and 8 I installed 99% of the extensions by unzipping into the plugins folder.

                        I would strongly recommend to NOT follow that advice. Windows tries to enforce a strict lock down to Program Files. On many systems extensions will not be able to write to that location - which often they want to.
                        I suspect that some of the issue in this case is due to non-English characters in the username. This should in theory be fixed in Ruby 2.0 - but there appear to be some bugs in the Windows version of Ruby. It should however be possible for the developers to work around this. Hard to tell exactly in this case without knowing the source.

                        To work around this until the developer have a chance to update the extension you can try to install to the AllUser profile:

                        C:\ProgramData\SketchUp\SketchUp 2015\SketchUp

                        AFIK that should not have unicode characters. Create a Plugins folder and extract the RBZ content there. (Rename RBZ to ZIP and extract like you did in SU6-SU8).

                        User should really not be modifying files in Program Files. Windows will fight back.

                        but weren´t all plugins installed to Program Files in Sketchup 7 and 8?

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                        • tt_suT Offline
                          tt_su
                          last edited by

                          @aceshigh said:

                          but weren´t all plugins installed to Program Files in Sketchup 7 and 8?

                          Yes, however that came from a time before Microsoft had these restrictions. Additionally, Ruby 1.8 was unable to deal with unicode at all - and some users have unicode characters in their names that would break. What complicated things more was that XP has localized system folder so the least pain, most compatible folder used to be Program Files. That has changed now, with Ruby 2.0 and newer versions of Windows - so extensions should be installed to the default Plugins folder or the AllUsers profile. Anything else is not supported and is very likely to cause other problems.

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                          • TIGT Offline
                            TIG Moderator
                            last edited by

                            Here's a new version, it is updated, where possible it will 'encode' the plugins folder-path [as extracted from __FILE__] into 'UTF-8' format.
                            This means that in >=v2014 any 'accented' User-names might be now be possible with this tool.
                            Please retry installing from this new RBZ into the main plugins folder as normal.
                            http://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=compoSpray
                            But, if you still get errors because Ruby can't successfully parse the lingvo file-paths etc then please post them...
                            It might not be immediately solvable, but at least we then know about it...

                            If it works but you still get any similar errors in other plugins, then please post them in the appropriate threads, as the fix is relatively simple but not automatically used, as encoding was not possible up to v2014's arrival and there are also relatively few PC Users with accents in their names !

                            TIG

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                              tomaszdrgas
                              last edited by

                              Could you add one option for dropping down selected components... seems like softwere has got all whats needed for it.. just fird icon to add

                              Tomasz Drgas

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                                majid
                                last edited by

                                I was missing this wonderful plugin, thanks for update. it works well with latest Su!

                                My inspiring A, B, Sketches book: https://sketchucation.com/shop/books/intermediate/2612-alphabet-inspired-sketches--inspiring-drills-for-architects--3d-artists-and-designers-

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                                  keithswd
                                  last edited by

                                  Hi

                                  I am trying to use this tool to place 2D faceme components (plants) onto the ground. I keep getting a message stating

                                  "1000 trials to drop components done. Continue?"

                                  Whatever I press now, I get into an unbreakable loop where the either (if I press yes) the time to complete keeps going up exponentially and another message pops up or (if I press no) I get the spinning colour wheel. Either way I have to force exit sketchup.

                                  I haven't used the tool for a while, but don't remember this problem before.

                                  I have SU2016 on OS X.

                                  thanks

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                                    fredp
                                    last edited by

                                    Hi, this is a great plugin, thanks everyone involved in it!

                                    Is it possible to set a min/max rotation? I'm using it to spread deckchair on the shore, so they must be just slightly rotated, not fully random, as they should all be facing the sea

                                    Thanks

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                                      Mike598601
                                      last edited by

                                      Is this excellent plugin still supported? - I'm using SU2018 Pro and having the sames issues as below after it initially working brilliantly.

                                      @unknownuser said:

                                      Hi

                                      I am trying to use this tool to place 2D faceme components (plants) onto the ground. I keep getting a message stating

                                      "1000 trials to drop components done. Continue?"

                                      Whatever I press now, I get into an unbreakable loop where the either (if I press yes) the time to complete keeps going up exponentially and another message pops up or (if I press no) I get the spinning colour wheel. Either way I have to force exit sketchup.

                                      I haven't used the tool for a while, but don't remember this problem before.

                                      I have SU2016 on OS X.

                                      thanks

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                                        Einstein
                                        last edited by

                                        Hi!
                                        I know it's been time since this plugin was hot but maybe someone could help me with problem I have with it.

                                        Sometimes I get a message like this:
                                        "More than 2 minutes to complete." or something like "It will take 1000 trials to complete."
                                        The problem is that this window is inescapable. Regardless I click YES or NO, the same window pops up and totally blocks SketchUp (even if I choose the dialog to be non-modal). The only thing I can do is to close SU via Task Manager.
                                        The same problem with SU 16 and 17.


                                        inescapable window.png

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                                        • S Offline
                                          Sonia Ramos
                                          last edited by

                                          Hi! I'm new to sketchup. I was wondering if
                                          there are written instructions on how to use the Compo Spray plugin, for example in PDF.
                                          Thank you.

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                                          • Didier BurD Offline
                                            Didier Bur
                                            last edited by

                                            Hi Sonia,

                                            Yes there is a PDF help file.
                                            See the Help button in the lower-right corner of the dialog ? Here it is 😉

                                            csHelp.jpg

                                            Latest version of Compo Spray is available here: https://extensions.sketchup.com/extension/213a8e60-208f-4b6d-95ff-ab367c09a959/compo-spray

                                            DB

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