Sketchup kind of 'stuck' after scripts

ghandi

Hey Forum,

I am experiencing issues after invoking scripts.
Sketchup seems kind of 'stuck' after scripts are executed.
That means I can't click or select any Object.

I need to press spacebar once, then everything seems fine again.

What am I missing? Any Ideas?

Thank you.

voljanko

It all depends of the letters in your scripts

ghandi

Do you have any hints?

I tried
model.active_view.refresh
or
selection.clear

but none helped.

If you want me to post all that code I'll do.
Mainly that are modified versions of Fillet.rb, Pipe_along_Path.rb.

voljanko

@ghandi said:

Mainly that are modified versions of Fillet.rb, Pipe_along_Path.rb.
First step would be to check if the original versions work ok for you.If yes,than find the differences.Than add every difference to the original(working) code.Then you will know what line makes your code not working.

ghandi

will do.

TIG

I suspect that you have made a 'tool' that doesn't exit but sits there waiting for more input... without giving us some clues with your code we can't really help much more

ghandi

So I figured the problem arises from the originalfillet.rb (attached)

For my modified version I mainly removed following lines
89-91
101-103
110-126
166-167

so these lines can't be responsible for the problem.

The remaining code looks normal to me.

I tried to locate the problem by putting returns here and there but no

original from http://video.suplugins.com/download/fillet.rb

voljanko

Nothing is wrong.You are just "in the tool".
When the tool is selected,you can do just what the tool let you do.So it can be like stuck.
You just have to select other tools to exit this tool.

ghandi

That's it.

So I just activate the "Select-Tool" with

Sketchup.active_model.select_tool(nil)

Is that what I want?

Or is there an other way to close the Tool?

Thank you

voljanko

If you want to "close" a tool,you have to select another tool.
If you want to do it in code,try

 Sketchup.send_action "selectSelectionTool;"

,or other tools you want.

ghandi

Solved. Thank you very much.

thomthom

@voljanko said:

If you want to "close" a tool,you have to select another tool.
If you want to do it in code,try

 Sketchup.send_action "selectSelectionTool;"

,or other tools you want.

Does that work on OSX?

A safer method is Sketchup.active_model.select_tool( nil )

TIG

Sketchup.send_action("selectSelectionTool:") should work cross-platform - it's only the numerical codes that are PC specific like Sketchup.send_action(10501) which is PC only whereas the equivalent Sketchup.send_action("viewTop:") works on PC & MAC...