Uninitialized constant

thomthom

It's possible you haven't required all the correct files.

On a sidenote, REXML isn't the fastest XML parser as it turns out. Check out this thread: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=20297

TIG

Try adding:
Dir[path+'/rexml/parsers/'].each{|file|Sketchup::require file}
This will load everything in that directory in case something else is missing...

thomthom

@tig said:

Try adding:
Dir[path+'/rexml/parsers/'].each{|file|Sketchup::require file}
This will load everything in that directory in case something else is missing...

Or use the require_all call.

TIG

Duh!
Something like...
Sketchup::require_all 'path+"/rexml/*/*.rb"'
Which would load all '.rb' rubies in the '/parsers/' folder AND those in any othersub-folders too...

thomthom

Don't think you need to prefix it with Sketchup::... I've only used it once, but I think I just used require_all.

@tig said:

AND those in any other sub-folders too...

Really? I haven't found any other info on the method than this page: http://code.google.com/intl/nb/apis/sketchup/docs/loading.html

TIG

I assumed the Sketchup:: was because it might get scrambled later ?
The * wildcards .../*/*.rb process all folders in the path, and require the .rb files found ?

thomthom

Ah,.. I don't know anything about scrambled files.

I found this though on the sub folder topic: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=16029&p=124772#p125137
Maybe it does include subfolders.
If so I need to check CityGen's code as we use it there. I thought it only took the rb and rbs files in that folder - not going deeper. I actually think that for CG we don't want it doing that either.

Would have been nice is sub-folders where an optional argument...

TIG

We talk at cross-purposes - I didn't know Jim had made a require_all version...
I thought you meant this one that takes wildcards...tarcieri-require_all-ce01fef7205f87ade3c1e7bd626f0610f01cc013.zip the require_all.rb is in the /lib/ folder...

Since others might not have these perhaps the
Dir[path+'/rexml/parsers/'].each{|file|Sketchup::require file}
based version is safest ?

thomthom

But require_all is a function bundled with SU: http://code.google.com/intl/nb/apis/sketchup/docs/loading.html

@unknownuser said:

The sketchup.rb file defines a require_all function which requires all files with the extension .rb in a given folder.

Another good option for automatically loading Ruby scripts is to create your own folder of Ruby scripts (outside of the Plugins directory) and add that directory to the sketchup.rb file. For example, to load all scripts in the myrubyscriptsdirectory:

Question is, does these third-party solutions override the native method?

thomthom

That's a nice snippet.
Though, I have to see if this other version overwrites the built-in method. I think it can cause problems for CG if suddenly loads sub-folders.

TIG

Never knew require_all was built in...
require_all("C:\myrubyscriptsdirectory\")
You then could easily use it to do subfolders thus:
Dir.foreach("C:\myrubyscriptsdirectory\"){|entry|require_all(entry)if FileTest.directory?(entry)}