Start_operation backward compatibility

[Jim]

Since I'm sure everyone wants to take advantage of the speed improvements in SU7 by using the new start_operation syntax:

Sketchup.active_model.start_operation("Draw a Boat-Load of Geometry", true)

and also retain backward compatibility; what's a good way to code this up? I guess this would work:

if Sketchup.version.split(".")[0].to_i >= 7
  Sketchup.active_model.start_operation("Draw a Boat-Load of Geometry", true)
else
  Sketchup.active_model.start_operation("Draw a Boat-Load of Geometry")
end

Is this a case where over-loading start_operation would be a good thing?

[azuby]

But when using old plugins with new Sketchup you need to make sure your overwriting code is loaded before the old plugins are loaded. Maybe you want to program a "Load Old Plugins" Plugin, put the old plugins into a separate folder, ...

For your if-statement: Sketchup.version[0,1].to_i

azuby

[thomthom]

Thanks for the tip. I just made use of it and it's working good. Operation took abtou 2 minutes in SU6 while no more than 30 seconds in SU7.