Moving Smoothly

MartinRinehart

I want to move things smoothly. I'm experimenting with thread functions, so far without success. In the sample code, I added a sleep( 1 ) to a move/copy routine, hoping to see copies added at 1 second intervals. What I see is a long wait and then everything appears at once.


def move_copy( component, distance, number_of_copies )

=begin
Creates an outer array, moving a component "distance" as many times as specified.

"distance" is a vector, an array of [r, g, b].

"number_of_copies" is like the "Nx" in the VCB after a Move/Copy.
For 15 steps, you make 14 copies.
=end

	ents = Sketchup.active_model.entities

	defi = component.definition # the original component's definition
	trans = component.transformation # the original's transformation
	pt = trans.origin # the original's location, a Point3d

	for i in ( 1..number_of_copies )
		pt += distance
            # add vector to Point3d getting new Point3d
		trans = Geom;;Transformation.new( pt )
            # create new Transformation at the new Point3d
		ents.add_instance( defi, trans )
            # add another instance at the new Point3d
        sleep( 1 )
	end

end # of move_copy()

Ideas?