sketchucation logo sketchucation
    • Login
    ℹ️ Licensed Extensions | FredoBatch, ElevationProfile, FredoSketch, LayOps, MatSim and Pic2Shape will require license from Sept 1st More Info

    New API doc - typos and questions

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Developers' Forum
    370 Posts 35 Posters 256.4k Views 35 Watching
    Loading More Posts
    • Oldest to Newest
    • Newest to Oldest
    • Most Votes
    Reply
    • Reply as topic
    Log in to reply
    This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
    • thomthomT Offline
      thomthom
      last edited by

      Tool.enableVCB?
      http://code.google.com/intl/nb/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/tool.html#enableVCB?

      @unknownuser said:

      The enableVCB? method is used to tell SketchUp whether to allow the user to enter text into the VCB (value control box, aka the "measurements" panel). If you do not implement this method, then the vcb is disabled by default.

      I've never used this method for my Tools. But the VCB has still worked.

      Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
      List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

      1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
      • thomthomT Offline
        thomthom
        last edited by

        Image.size=
        http://code.google.com/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/image.html#size=

        It appears that the second argument is optional.

        Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
        List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

        1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
        • thomthomT Offline
          thomthom
          last edited by

          Entity.entityID
          http://code.google.com/intl/nb/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/entity.html#entityID

          @unknownuser said:

          The entityID method is used to retrieve a unique ID assigned to an entity.

          The entityID is not persistent between sessions.

          Is it persistent within a session? Can it be relied on for the length of one session?

          Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
          List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

          1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
          • thomthomT Offline
            thomthom
            last edited by

            ComponentDefinition.guid
            http://code.google.com/intl/nb/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/componentdefinition.html#guid

            Is this value persistent between sessions?

            Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
            List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

            1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
            • J Offline
              Jim
              last edited by

              Sketchup::Color.new

              new can accept a hex value (not string) as the parameter: for example 0xFF0000 (undocumented)

              But, it reverses the red and blue values. Here is a Console session. (bug)

              
              Sketchup;;Color.new 0xFF0000
              Color(  0,   0, 255, 255)
              Sketchup;;Color.new 0x0000FF
              Color(255,   0,   0, 255)
              
              

              Hi

              1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
              • scottliningerS Offline
                scottlininger
                last edited by

                I've got some catching up to do. Thanks for all of the details, guys! 😉

                • Scott Lininger
                  SketchUp Software Engineer
                  Have you visited the Ruby API Docs?
                1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                • thomthomT Offline
                  thomthom
                  last edited by

                  ModelObserver.onDeleteModel vs ModelObserver.onEraseAll
                  http://code.google.com/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/modelobserver.html#onDeleteModel

                  When does the onDeleteModel event trigger? I don't think I've ever seen it trigger. When I open an existing model or create a new model onEraseAll is triggered.

                  Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                  List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

                  1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                  • J Offline
                    Jim
                    last edited by

                    UI.start_timer

                    This post on the API blog is showing start_timer with a fraction of a second resolution. In my experience, UI.start_timer has a whole second resolution and rounds partial seconds down to the nearest second.

                    
                        t1=Time.now; UI.start_timer(0.1) {p Time.now-t1} ==> 0.01
                        t1=Time.now; UI.start_timer(0.999) {p Time.now-t1} ==> 0.01
                        t1=Time.now; UI.start_timer(1) {p Time.now-t1} ==> 1.001
                        t1=Time.now; UI.start_timer(1.9) {p Time.now-t1} ==> 1.002
                    
                    

                    Hi

                    1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                    • J Offline
                      Jim
                      last edited by

                      Point3d.linear_combination

                      Uses example from Geom.linear_combination.

                      I would guess the Point3d.linear_combination would only take 2 arguments - the weight, and other point since the first point is the receiver of the method.

                      Hi

                      1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                      • thomthomT Offline
                        thomthom
                        last edited by

                        MaterialsObserver
                        http://code.google.com/intl/nb/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/materialsobserver.html

                        Observer events that doesn't trigger:
                        Sketchup 6
                        onMaterialChange*
                        onMaterialRefChange

                        Sketchup 7
                        onMaterialChange*
                        onMaterialRefChange
                        onMaterialSetCurrent

                        • Only triggers when the name changes. Not when any of the other properties changes.

                        Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                        List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

                        1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                        • J Offline
                          Jim
                          last edited by

                          Group.move!

                          @unknownuser said:

                          This method is the same as the transform! method except that it does not record the move in an undo operation. This method is useful for transparently moving things during an animation.

                          .move! resets the rotational and scaling components of the receiver's transformation, and does not result in the same final translation as using .transform!

                          Hi

                          1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                          • thomthomT Offline
                            thomthom
                            last edited by

                            Layer.page_behavior vs Layer.page_behavior=
                            http://code.google.com/intl/nb/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/layer.html#page_behavior

                            The flag values seems to contradict between descriptions of the two methods.

                            Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                            List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

                            1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                            • thomthomT Offline
                              thomthom
                              last edited by

                              Pages.add_frame_change_observer
                              http://code.google.com/intl/nb/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/pages.html#add_frame_change_observer

                              I don't find any more info on this FrameChange observer. Missing documentation?

                              @unknownuser said:

                              The argument is an object that implements a method frameChange with the following form:

                              But then there's no example. And no FrameChange observer is listed in the Observer list.

                              Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                              List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

                              1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                              • TIGT Online
                                TIG Moderator
                                last edited by

                                Transformation.to_a
                                http://code.google.com/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/transformation.html#to_a
                                It would be every helpful if this listed the many items in this array and explained which each of them represents
                                e.g. tra[14]= Z value
                                ...

                                TIG

                                1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                                • Chris FullmerC Offline
                                  Chris Fullmer
                                  last edited by

                                  @tig said:

                                  Transformation.to_a
                                  http://code.google.com/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/transformation.html#to_a
                                  It would be every helpful if this listed the many items in this array and explained which each of them represents
                                  e.g. tra[14]= Z value
                                  ...

                                  I AGREE!! 😄

                                  Lately you've been tan, suspicious for the winter.
                                  All my Plugins I've written

                                  1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                                  • R Offline
                                    remus
                                    last edited by

                                    I dont know if that would be possible, as what each element means varies a lot depending on the transformation (or combination of transformations) that have happened. The exception to this is the final column ([12],[13],[14]) which always represent translation.

                                    http://remusrendering.wordpress.com/

                                    1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                                    • thomthomT Offline
                                      thomthom
                                      last edited by

                                      @remus said:

                                      I dont know if that would be possible, as what each element means varies a lot depending on the transformation (or combination of transformations) that have happened. The exception to this is the final column ([12],[13],[14]) which always represent translation.

                                      Well, an explaination of the difference would be great. Because transformation is a big scary wolf when you start SU scripting... IMO...

                                      Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                                      List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

                                      1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                                      • R Offline
                                        remus
                                        last edited by

                                        I wonder if theyd mind linking out to another site, theres lots of stuff out there:

                                        301 Moved Permanently

                                        favicon

                                        (www.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca)

                                        Google Search

                                        favicon

                                        (www.google.co.uk)

                                        http://remusrendering.wordpress.com/

                                        1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                                        • thomthomT Offline
                                          thomthom
                                          last edited by

                                          Got to disagree there. .os_language and .get_locale should both return the system settings, as that's what they indicate. They have their uses. But maybe there should be extra method to get the SU language...

                                          Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                                          List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

                                          1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                                          • thomthomT Offline
                                            thomthom
                                            last edited by

                                            Ah, I see now:
                                            http://code.google.com/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/sketchup.html#get_locale

                                            @unknownuser said:

                                            The get_locale method returns the language code for the language SketchUp is running in.

                                            Valid return values include (but are not limited to): EN, QE, DE, FR, JP, ES, and IT.

                                            Yes, Sketchup.get_locale should according to the docs NOT return the system locale...

                                            Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                                            List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

                                            1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                                            • 1
                                            • 2
                                            • 5
                                            • 6
                                            • 7
                                            • 8
                                            • 9
                                            • 18
                                            • 19
                                            • 7 / 19
                                            • First post
                                              Last post
                                            Buy SketchPlus
                                            Buy SUbD
                                            Buy WrapR
                                            Buy eBook
                                            Buy Modelur
                                            Buy Vertex Tools
                                            Buy SketchCuisine
                                            Buy FormFonts

                                            Advertisement