Ruby Console Ruby Console

SchreiberBike · 4 Mar 2008, 22:41

Under my Windows pull down menu, the last item is "Ruby Console". Just above that is "Ruby Console".

Does everyone have this embarrassment of riches? I don't think they've both aways been there, but I don't know when the 2nd one appeared. It's not a problem, but it's odd.

Gaieus · 4 Mar 2008, 23:07

I used have the same. Some ruby puts it there (maybe just because when upgrading to SU5 I just copied most of my old stuff to SU6). I cannot remember the solution but some ruby scripter enlightened me, poor erthly mortal what to do and I got rid of it (not as if it had bothered me either - I was just curious, too).

todd burch · 4 Mar 2008, 23:08

If you have a sketchup.rb in /Plugins, get rid of it. It's only supposed to be in /Tools.

Todd

Gaieus · 4 Mar 2008, 23:10

Ah, that's it. Thanks, Todd.

juju · 20 Mar 2008, 15:49

I have the same problem (2x ruby console entries below each other), however I don't have a sketchup.rb file in the plugins folder.

todd burch · 20 Mar 2008, 15:52

There's another script out there that is errant.

It issues a "sendAction" to display the console, just as if you clicked on the dropdown choice. Search you plugins folder for any script that mentions "console" and you'll probably find it.

Once you find it, show us the code and we'll tell you how to comment it out.

Todd

SchreiberBike · 20 Mar 2008, 22:46

I haven't been able to work it out yet. It's a small problem, so I haven't chased it too hard, but I tried your suggestions and didn't have any luck.

There's no extra sketchup.rb in Plugins.

I searched for "console" and found it in the comments of Examples.rb, utilitietools.rb and
examplescripts.rb.

The ruby sketchup.rb has the word console as part of
@unknownuser said:

if( not file_loaded? "sketchup.rb" )

Add a choice to the Window menu to display the Ruby console

add_separator_to_menu("Window")
UI.menu("Window").add_item($suStrings.GetString("Ruby Console")) do
Sketchup.send_action("showRubyPanel:")
end

and

@unknownuser said:

require 'langhandler.rb'
$suStrings = LanguageHandler.new("gettingstarted.strings")
console

This file defines a number of useful utilities that are used by other

Ruby scripts.

Do you think it could be one of those?

TIG · 20 Mar 2008, 23:12

Search for "showRubyPanel" in Plugins and Tools folders...

It's that name that's called. I accidentally left a call in ComponentReporter.rb about three years ago but all subsequent versions were fixed... Maybe it's something like that ?

todd burch · 20 Mar 2008, 23:22

Thanks TIG. I was working from failing memory.

SchreiberBike · 21 Mar 2008, 04:39

Still not seeing single (closest I could find to an emoticon seeing double)

In SketchyPhysics, I found

@unknownuser said:

if( not file_loaded?("SketchyPhysics.rb") )
#result = Sketchup.send_action "showRubyPanel:"

reload()
end

but deleting that file and other references to SketchyPhysics didn't make any change.

I did find it in sketchup.rb in the tools directory

@unknownuser said:

Add some Ruby specific menu items

if( not file_loaded? "sketchup.rb" )

Add a choice to the Window menu to display the Ruby console

add_separator_to_menu("Window")
UI.menu("Window").add_item($suStrings.GetString("Ruby Console")) do
Sketchup.send_action("showRubyPanel:")
end

Commenting that out got rid of both copies, but I do want one of them.

todd burch · 21 Mar 2008, 10:15

AHA! Perhaps you have a script that performs a LOAD of sketchup.rb instead of requiring it. Now search for "sketchup.rb" (a case insensitive search) and see what you come up with.

FYI - Any line of Ruby code that starts with a hash sign ("#") is a comment.

Todd

SchreiberBike · 22 Mar 2008, 21:33

Still no luck. The only references to sketchup.rb are Require, except in the file sketchup.rb itself.

It's not bothering me much, but if I have time to spare, I'll uninstall SU and the rubys, then reinstall them and watch to see if and when the 2nd "ruby console" reappears.

Gaieus · 22 Mar 2008, 21:38

John,

Do you have the sketchup.rb in your plugins folder? And what's the file size?

todd burch · 22 Mar 2008, 21:54

If you want, and you won't be breaking any licensing agreements, zip up up your /plugins folder and send it to me and I'll figure it out.

Todd

SchreiberBike · 22 Mar 2008, 22:21

Gaieus, The only sketchup.rb I've got is in the /tools folder. It's 4K.

Todd, I'll live with it for now, unless it's making you curious, then I'll send it to you for you to play with.

Jim · 23 Mar 2008, 01:27

It's making me curious.

ryan_allan · 13 Apr 2008, 22:12

Jim,

I'd like to say this is a Sketchup bug. I loaded Sketchup with an empty plugins folder, punched "require 'Sketchup.rb'" into the console window, and instantly had the second Ruby Console on the menu.

todd burch · 14 Apr 2008, 03:00

Ryan, that's because you typed "Sketchup.rb" with a capital "S". sketchup.rb does not perform a case insensitive compare when comparing script names. This has worked this way since June 2004, and was reported at least 2 years ago to @Last / Google, and a workaround even given too.

Todd

ryan_allan · 17 Apr 2008, 01:55

Well, sorry for replicating an already known bug... on the upside, now I fixed the same bug in my own code. Thanks Todd!