Balustrade with components plugin seems to fail in SU8

julyyen

Hello,

Long time no posting, but reading all your interesting ideas about SketchUp.
In SketchUp 8, when I try to work with balustrade with components plugin, I receive the next message:

Error Loading File balustrade_components.rb
C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp
8/Plugins/balustrade_components.rb:228:syntax error,
unexpected',',expecting')'
if (n1.between?(n2-interval),(n2+interval))

Any advice?

TIG

It's a known issue - the problem is that the newly shipped version of Ruby is less forgiving of bad syntax.
So while dosomething (a+b), c used to work it now returns an error as it thinks the first () contains the argument[s] and the trailing ", c" is then 'wrong'...
dosomething a+b, c will work [as long as the first argument can work without its ()]
BUT it's better to put all of a function's arguments inside (...)
so the better version is
dosomething((a+b), c)
Note how there should not be a <space> before the first enclosing (...
Didier has some scripts showing this type of error-message when used in v8.
Some are encrypted and can't be readily edited - however balustrade.rb is in plain-text and I have attached a version where all arguments are now correctly parenthesized [i.e. not just the 'problem' one]...balustrade_components.rb

ken

TIG

This is the error I receive with the modified file.

Thanks for your help.

Ken

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TIG

Ken

Sorry about that... my mistake - the version is now corrected - please download it again...

jim smith

Thanks for the update TIG, I have been keeping a lookout for any and all fixes to the SU8 problem. I do use this plugin but haven't tried since the update. Now I don't need to worry

ken

@tig said:

Ken

Sorry about that... my mistake - the version is now corrected - please download it again...

TIG

I went thru the plugin to see if I could find the problem, however, I darn sure wasn't going to post a correction. Not even close to being that smart.

So thank you TIG

Ken

TIG

Thanks Ken
Another error has appeared...
I have corrected this new error - so please download the updated version again
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=270788#p270788
which should now be sorted

[Thanks Ken, again]

julyyen

Thanks a lot, TIG, I use this script a lot.

STUDIO.B

So sorry, but steel not work for me. merci d'avance.

elthanos

Doesn't work for me either. The component face of handrail doesn't extrude to the line path and generaly it "sees" only one part of polyline even after weld plugin. help please!

alumiroi

Thanks for the update.

JQL

Guys this does not show up at Sketchucation Plugin Store, though it's a great plugin!

Shouldn't it be there?

Best regards,

JQL