How to pause a ruby script for 1 second

N Lindenthal

@unknownuser said:

…And completely to get rid from selection.

Where I can find "following.rbs"?
I shall think...

Yes, rid from selection …

… but how? This way?

select_comp_by_name("Fahrstuhl")
def Morisdov.transf_get(dict_key, ss=nil)
  model=Sketchup.active_model               
  ents=model.active_entities
   if ss
     @ents = ss
   else
     @ents=[]
     model.selection.each {|e| @ents.push(e)}
   end                                 
  @ents.freeze
  model.selection.clear
end

(my poor english) Which "following.rbs" you need?

AlexMozg

@unknownuser said:

Yes, rid from selection …

… but how? This way?


def select_comp_by_name(comp_name)
   model = Sketchup.active_model
   if compdef = Sketchup.active_model.definitions[comp_name]
      sel = compdef.instances
   else
      sel=[]
      Sketchup.active_model.active_entities.each do |d|
         if d.typename == "ComponentInstance"
         sel << d if d.name==comp_name
      end
   end
      if sel.count == 0
         UI.beep
      else
         UI.messagebox(sel.count.to_s + " gesuchte Dinger gefunden.")
      end
   end
sel
end

def Morisdov.transf_get(dict_key, ss=nil)
  model=Sketchup.active_model               
  ents=model.active_entities
   if ss
     @ents = ss
   else
     @ents=[]
     model.selection.each {|e| @ents.push(e)}
   end                                 
  @ents.freeze
  model.selection.clear
  ...
  ...<<original code>>...
  ...
end

Use:

ss = select_comp_by_name("Fahrstuhl")
Morisdov.transf_get(dict_key, ss)

@unknownuser said:

(my poor english) Which "following.rbs" you need?

Here this:

@unknownuser said:

...Position 2
To get the script work, the following .rbs must be installed:

????

Chris Fullmer

I know this is old, but I was needing an answer to something similar today, and this thread over-complexificated the issue for me. I just wanted to add a short .2 second delay before carrying on with my script. This is what I've come up with and it worked for me. No need to invoke the UI.timer

time_mark = ( Time.now + 0.2 )
while time_mark > Time.now
end

Hopefully thats helpful if anyone stumbles on this thread,

Chris

tbd

Chris: i hope your code is called only by the user and not in an Observer or right click menus, because it will stop Ruby thread and if you call this several times it will block a lot of things.

Chris Fullmer

Ahh, I see. I think its ok in this instance to stop up ruby entirely. I was having very little luck getting it to work any other way. I just kept sending SU into a deeep coma.

Maybe I'll try to post my broken code using the timer and try to get that working instead then. Thanks Tavi,

Chris