ICON MF_ENABLED, MF_CHECKED

[TNTDAVID]

A question that comes to mind.

How an icon can be activated and deactivated with each click.

Example:

1st click on iconeA = "MF_CHECKED"
2nd click on iconeA = "MF_ENABLED"
3rd click on iconeA = "MF_CHECKED" ....

I tried this line of code:

@commandA.set_validation_proc{ MF_CHECKED; MF_ENABLED }

It does not work.

Do you know the method to be followed?

Thank you

[kaas]

No surprise it doesn't work - you are making up code that doesn't exist in the API. http://www.sketchup.com/intl/en/developer/docs/ourdoc/command#set_validation_proc

Just make a @variable to store the current state (0/1/2) and after clicking on an icon read the variable, use the proper MF_... and set the @variable to another value.

Off-topic; coming from someone who is selling a SketchUp plugin for E99,- I find your questions and knowledge of Ruby rather 'strange'...

[TNTDAVID]

I discovered the ruby ...

My plugins are tools that work only with Dynamic Components.

Many underestimate the power of dynamic components, which offer unlimited possibilitys.

Example:

Click-Change or Click-Kitchen, totaling 100,000 downloads, and more than a Million views in the entropot extensions.

And 100% of my clients are satisfied.

I am currently working on an updated Click-Window 3D, which will bring a lot of positive change.

If I cling to the ruby, it's in the one and only goal, to offer even more to my customers.

[TIG]

With your code
@commandA.set_validation_proc{ MF_CHECKED; MF_ENABLED }
It should set the @commandA menu item to be checked and enabled.
It probably won't 'check' the toolbar button - which should be enabled or disabled/grayed ?
BUT before you do that have you added
puts @commandA in a line immediately before.
When you run the command from its button, then it is shows up in the Ruby Console as a reference to a command if it's working right, but if it's nil it's somehow coded wrongly...

[TNTDAVID]

Good evening,

Icon 1, use the following method:

def self.panel
      model = Sketchup.active_model 
      layers = model.layers 
      new_layer = layers.add "Click-Window 3D"
      if new_layer.visible?
      new_layer.visible = false 
      else
      new_layer.visible = true 
      end
      end

Icon 2, uses this method:

def self.layerhid
      model = Sketchup.active_model 
      layers = model.layers
      new_layer = layers.add "Click-Window 3D"
      new_layer.visible = false
      instance.layer = new_layer
      end

When I use the two icons, the visibility of the layer starts to bugger.

Even if the code activates or deactivates the layer in the Layers window, the composents with this layer do not change state.

Do you know why this strange bug?

If so, how to avoid it?

Thank you in advance for your help.

David

[kaas]

If you added some puts to your code, you could get some more info on what your code is doing and where/why your code fails.

In short:
your first block (self.panel) is just toggling the visibility of new_layer
your second block (self.layerhid) is always hiding the visibility of new_layer

instance has not been defined in that second block so if you try to change its layer using instance.layer= it will fail. It probably has to be @my_instance that you have defined elsewhere. There probably was an error message about that in the Ruby Console that you forgot to read/post...

def self.panel
	model = Sketchup.active_model
	layers = model.layers
	new_layer = layers.add "Click-Window 3D" 
	if new_layer.visible?
		new_layer.visible = false
		puts %(self.panel is setting visibility to false)
	else
		new_layer.visible = true
		puts %(self.panel is setting visibility to true)
	end
end

def self.layerhid
	model = Sketchup.active_model
	layers = model.layers
	new_layer = layers.add "Click-Window 3D"
	new_layer.visible = false
	puts %(self.layerhid is setting visibility to false)
	instance.layer = new_layer
	puts instance.layer
end

[TNTDAVID]

@tig said:

With your code
@commandA.set_validation_proc{ MF_CHECKED; MF_ENABLED }
It should set the @commandA menu item to be checked and enabled.

Thank you for that clarification, TIG.

@kaas said:

instance has not been defined in that second block so if you try to change its layer using instance.layer= it will fail. It probably has to be @my_instance that you have defined elsewhere. There probably was an error message about that in the Ruby Console that you forgot to read/post...

Oops! I made a mistake in my copy / pasted, instance.layer should not exist in "Method layerhid".

As I noticed the error in the ruby ​​console, and there to any subject in the API on "instance.layer", I ended up deleting it.

Regarding "Puts", I added them more, because it can prevent in some cases, a method of work.

Example:

if new_layer.visible?
     puts new_layer.visible = false # action 1A
     puts Sketchup.send_action "selectSelectionTool;" # action 2A
     elsif
     puts new_layer.visible = true # action 1B
     puts Sketchup.active_model.select_tool(DCInteractTool.new($dc_observers)) # action 2B
     end

This does not work!

If I remove the puts as:

if new_layer.visible?
     new_layer.visible = false # action 1A
     Sketchup.send_action "selectSelectionTool;" # action 2A
     elsif
     pnew_layer.visible = true # action 1B
     Sketchup.active_model.select_tool(DCInteractTool.new($dc_observers)) # action 2B
     end

The code works!

With or without "Puts", the console displays the line number or there is an error.

So what are the avanatges of "Puts"?

@kaas said:

def self.panel
    model = Sketchup.active_model
    layers = model.layers
    new_layer = layers.add "Click-Window 3D"
   if new_layer.visible?
      new_layer.visible = false
      puts %(self.panel is setting visibility to false)
   else
      new_layer.visible = true
      puts %(self.panel is setting visibility to true)
   end
end

def self.layerhid
    model = Sketchup.active_model
    layers = model.layers
    new_layer = layers.add "Click-Window 3D"
    new_layer.visible = false
    puts %(self.layerhid is setting visibility to false)
    instance.layer = new_layer
    puts instance.layer
end

Thank you for your example code.

Unfortunately the problem still exists.

Here is the error message:

@unknownuser said:

self.layerhid is setting visibility to false
Error: #<NoMethodError: undefined method transform!' for #<Sketchup::ComponentDefinition:0x0000000e47fb40>> c:/users/david/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2015/sketchup/plugins/su_dynamiccomponents/ruby/dcclass_v1.rbs:454:in redraw'
c:/users/david/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2015/sketchup/plugins/su_dynamiccomponents/ruby/dcclass_v1.rbs:406:in redraw_with_undo' C:/Users/DAVID/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2015/SketchUp/Plugins/TNT_ClickWindow3D_Pro_mm/logic.rb:217:in mode1'
C:/Users/DAVID/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2015/SketchUp/Plugins/TNT_ClickWindow3D_Pro_mm/logic.rb:252:in block in <module:CW_Pro_mm>' SketchUp:1:in call'

Here are the relevant lines:

L217 - $dc_observers.get_latest_class.redraw_with_undo(model_def) # mode 1

L252 - @commandA = UI::Command.new("Mode 1"){ CW_Pro_mm.mode1 }

L406 - command12.tooltip = %Q(add Crank Window)

L454 - @commandO.small_icon = File.join(@@path_to_resources,"add_O.png")

I'm surprised these lines triggers an error message!

They exist in other methods or command, with these objects that works.

It is therefore difficult to understand the reasons of the error message.

Thank you

David

[TIG]

I think the changing of button states on the fly is an issue.
So try this alternative:

module TesteCube
	module ClickWindow
		@@path_to_resources = File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), 'Resources')
		if ! file_loaded?(__FILE__)         
				su_menu = UI.menu("Plugins")
				cc_menu = su_menu.add_submenu(%Q(TesteCube))
				tb = UI;;Toolbar.new(%Q(TesteCube))
				
				@disableA=false
				@disableB=false

				@commandA = UI;;Command.new("mode1"){ @disableB=true; self.cmdA(); @disableB=false }
				@commandA.small_icon = File.join(@@path_to_resources,"add_A.png")
				@commandA.large_icon = File.join(@@path_to_resources,"add_A.png")
				@commandA.tooltip = %Q(Opens Settings SketchUp)
				@commandA.status_bar_text = %Q(Opens Settings SketchUp)
				@commandA.menu_text = %Q(Opens Settings SketchUp)
				cc_menu.add_item(@commandA)
				tb.add_item(@commandA)
		 
				@commandB = UI;;Command.new("mode1"){ @disableA=true; self.cmdB(); @disableA=false }
				@commandB.small_icon = File.join(@@path_to_resources,"add_B.png")
				@commandB.large_icon = File.join(@@path_to_resources,"add_B.png")
				@commandB.tooltip = %Q(Opens Settings SketchUp)
				@commandB.status_bar_text = %Q(Opens Settings SketchUp)
				@commandB.menu_text = %Q(Opens Settings SketchUp)
				cc_menu.add_item(@commandB)
				tb.add_item(@commandB)
				
				@commandA.set_validation_proc{
					if @disableA
						MF_DISABLED
					else
						MF_ENABLED
					end
				}
				@commandB.set_validation_proc{
					if @disableB
						MF_DISABLED
					else
						MF_ENABLED
					end
				}
		 
				tb.restore
				file_loaded(__FILE__)
		end

		def self.cmdA()
			UI.messagebox('cmdA')
		end

		def self.cmdB()
			UI.messagebox('cmdB')
		end
	end
end

It sets two possible states for the buttons and sets/resets those each time the commands are run, running the code between those 'bookends'...
I've made it a UI.messagebox so you can the affect on the toolbar buttons - otherwise it'll be transitory...

[TNTDAVID]

TIG thank you, but the state of the buttons is not the problem!

The bontons work fine with my current code.

I was wrong on all the line!

The problem is this object:

$dc_observers.get_latest_class.redraw_with_undo(model_def)

It is used in this method:

      def self.mode1
      @commandA.set_validation_proc{MF_GRAYED}
      @commandB.set_validation_proc{MF_ENABLED}
      @commandP.set_validation_proc{MF_GRAYED}
      @commandO.set_validation_proc{MF_ENABLED}
	  
      model = Sketchup.active_model  
      model_definition = model.definitions
      model_def = model_definition['Control Panel']
      model_def.set_attribute 'dynamic_attributes','a0000mode', '1'
      model_def.set_attribute 'dynamic_attributes','_a0000mode_label', 'a0000mode'
      model_def.set_attribute 'dynamic_attributes','_a0000mode_units', 'STRING'
      model_def.set_attribute 'dynamic_attributes','_a0000mode_access', 'TEXTBOX'
      $dc_observers.get_latest_class.redraw_with_undo(model_def)  
      end

This method changes a component attribute that uses the "Click-Window 3D"

Once this method is used, the component's display starts messing.

Here is my problem:

Have you an idea of the problem?

Thank you

[TIG]

Isn't that method used on the currently selected DC instance NOT a definition !?
So perhaps it should be something like
$dc_observers.get_latest_class.redraw_with_undo(model_def.instances[0])

[TNTDAVID]

@tig said:

Isn't that method used on the currently selected DC instance NOT a definition !?
So perhaps it should be something like
$dc_observers.get_latest_class.redraw_with_undo(model_def.instances[0])

It is in this kind of situation that your experience is very beneficial, TIG.

Congratulation!