Ending a tool

Qverburg

Hello there ruby scripters,

Im having difficulties in ending a selfmade tool.
I would like that the tool returns to the last selected tool after finishing a list of methods.
It is not really an option for me to rescript the tool to a method.

Another problem for me is getting to start the list of methods only when 1 component instance (or 1 selection even) is selected, when no of multiple instances are selected it should prompt you to select one instance.
my code is something like this:

if $selectie.single_object? == false
UI.beep
UI.messagebox("please select only 1 ")
Sketchup.active_model.selection.clear
else
method1
method2
end

But now if not 1 instance is selected it keeps hanging in the tool. How do i fix it to wait untill one thing is clicked and then execute the methods?

Kind regards,
Quintus

Qverburg

Solved it with a Sketchup.send_action("selectSelectionTool:").

Chris Fullmer

Excellent, glad you got it working. It sounded like you were looking for something much complicated than activating the selection tool.

Chris

TIG

@qverburg said:

Solved it with a Sketchup.send_action("selectSelectionTool:").

I end most of my complex tools with that....

AdamB

@tig said:

@qverburg said:

Solved it with a Sketchup.send_action("selectSelectionTool:").

I end most of my complex tools with that....

I've always used Sketchup.active_model.tools.pop_tool so it returns to whatever you had before rather than forcing the use of SelectionTool.

Adam

TIG

@adamb said:

@tig said:

@qverburg said:

Solved it with a Sketchup.send_action("selectSelectionTool:").

I end most of my complex tools with that....

I've always used Sketchup.active_model.tools.pop_tool so it returns to whatever you had before rather than forcing the use of SelectionTool.

Adam

But a lot of plugins end with you perhaps wanting to select something... or if I for example I have made a group you will want to move then I make it the model.selection and invoke the 'Move' tool...

AdamB

@tig said:

@adamb said:

@tig said:

@qverburg said:

Solved it with a Sketchup.send_action("selectSelectionTool:").

I end most of my complex tools with that....

I've always used Sketchup.active_model.tools.pop_tool so it returns to whatever you had before rather than forcing the use of SelectionTool.

Adam

But a lot of plugins end with you perhaps wanting to select something... or if I for example I have made a group you will want to move then I make it the model.selection and invoke the 'Move' tool...

Never ever ever second guess the user.

Qverburg

@chris fullmer said:

Excellent, glad you got it working. It sounded like you were looking for something much complicated than activating the selection tool.

Chris

Well at first I wanted it to be more complex indeed. But i found out that i could do what i wanted by ending the tool with that commando.
I had tried the pop tool but didnt get it working. But since you have to select something in order to use my tool selectSelectionTool gives the same result
Thanks for your thoughts though!

regards,
Quintus

thomthom

@adamb said:

I've always used Sketchup.active_model.tools.pop_tool so it returns to whatever you had before rather than forcing the use of SelectionTool.
Adam

Do yo have to use Sketchup.active_model.tools.push_tool to activate the tool then? Because I tried Sketchup.active_model.tools.pop_tool when I had activated the tool using Sketchup.active_model.tools.select_tool - and that did not seem to do anything.