<![CDATA[View.draw_text invisible?]]>After drawing points, text is not displayed. Any ideas?
My workaround is to draw the text first, but I'm just wondering if something else is wrong.

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class TestTool
def draw(view)
view.draw_text(view.screen_coords(ORIGIN)+[20,-100,0], "visible text")
view.draw_points(ORIGIN+[10,10,10], 10, 3, Sketchup;;Color.new("black"))
view.draw_text(view.screen_coords(ORIGIN)+[20,-50,0], "invisible text")
end
end
Sketchup.active_model.select_tool(TestTool.new)

]]>https://community.sketchucation.com/topic/134480/view-draw_text-invisibleRSS for NodeThu, 14 May 2026 00:59:29 GMTMon, 16 Apr 2012 03:24:41 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to View.draw_text invisible? on Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:38:57 GMT]]>@aerilius said:

(I hope the API comments will be back at the site at some time.)

Yea - I'd made notes about the draw_points bug in the old comments... 😞

]]>https://community.sketchucation.com/post/1322202https://community.sketchucation.com/post/1322202Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:38:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to View.draw_text invisible? on Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:33:54 GMT]]>Thanks for explaining this!

(I hope the API comments will be back at the site at some time.)

]]>https://community.sketchucation.com/post/1322201https://community.sketchucation.com/post/1322201Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:33:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to View.draw_text invisible? on Mon, 16 Apr 2012 08:33:46 GMT]]>@aerilius said:

After drawing points, text is not displayed. Any ideas?

There is a bug where view.draw_points kills off the drawing operation that succeed it. I try to move all point drawing operations to the end of the draw event.

Just to be sure it doesn't mute any other operations, when I'm done drawing points I draw an line outside the viewport area just to make sure the next operations will work fine.

@dan rathbun said:

View.drawing_color=

Unfortunately the drawing colour is not used for text - it always draws the text in the colour of the foreground color: model.rendering_options['ForegroundColor'] - that's the model edge colour.

]]>https://community.sketchucation.com/post/1322184https://community.sketchucation.com/post/1322184Mon, 16 Apr 2012 08:33:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to View.draw_text invisible? on Mon, 16 Apr 2012 08:01:24 GMT]]>In my original code I had set a drawing_color, but text doesn't use it (and the first text works without it).

]]>https://community.sketchucation.com/post/1322181https://community.sketchucation.com/post/1322181Mon, 16 Apr 2012 08:01:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to View.draw_text invisible? on Mon, 16 Apr 2012 07:05:18 GMT]]>View.drawing_color=

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