Hiding Outliner Window

[TIG]

@jim said:

@tig said:

You 'pause' a script so you can see the geometry so far by having start/commit operations that follow each other

This is not a requirement for updating the view. There are other ways to do it.
I have not tried it in a while, but I seem to remember a messagebox will pause the program and the view will be updated. Or maybe calling view.refresh followed by sleep(2) might work. I mean, if your goal is to pause the program just to see it's progress.

A messagebox will cause a window to redraw IF the start_operation argument is false - but if it's true the window's contents are unchanged until the commit arrives.
view.refresh should work with the operation BUT it IS limited to very recent SUp versions, so cannot be backwardly compatible. To such make a script v6 compatible would mean convoluted version checking...
view.invalidate waits for the commit.

[Dan Rathbun]

At the end of the operation, does SU update the UI automatically?

or, is it a good idea (just to be sure) to call:
UI.refresh_inspectors # force complete UI update
http://code.google.com/apis/sketchup/docs/releases.html

[thomthom]

In my experience SU seem to update the viewport after commit_operation.

But if an error occurs before your [ruby]commit_operation[/ruby - then the viewport won't update until you pan/orbin/draw.

[filcole]

Hi Tig (and all others),

Thanks for the responses, fixed my problem wonderfully. Kudos.

I did try using start_operation() with the second parameter set to true, but the Outliner window is still redrawn when each dynamic component is redraw using $dc_observers.get_latest_class.redraw_with_undo(compInst).