Sketchup send action for paste..

Burkhard

...I can get.
Is there an equivalent to paste in place? I can find nothing.

Aerilius

Sketchup.send_action("paste:") (only in the Windows version of SketchUp)

Burkhard

Sorry Aerelius, I have the "paste" code but could not find "paste in place".
(My english )

TIG

There is no 'paste_in_place' send_action [there's probably an unsuppoorted numerical PC-only code somewhere??]
If you want to 'move' something from one context into another then you must first have it as a group/instance, then add an instance of it into the new context, respecting the relative transformations...

If it's initially loose geometry and in the active_context then something like:
gp=model.active_entities.add_group(model.selection.to_a)
will work to make it a group, BUT if not SketchUp will Bugsplat !

Let's assume we have a group referenced as 'gp'... to put a 'copy' of it into another 'context' use:
gp2=another.entities.add_instance(gp.entities.parent, tr)
Where 'tr' is the transformation of the 'another' container relative to the original...

If you have two instances of the same group using gp2.make_unique will avoid issues if you change one but don't want to change the other...

If you want to 'move' it between contexts [aka cut+paste_in_place] then after you create the new instance use gp.erase! to remove the original.

If the selected object is a component instance ['ins'] then it's slightly different...
ins2=another.entities.add_instance(ins.definition, tr)
Again use ins.erase! if it's a 'move 'rather than a 'copy'...

The transformation of a group/instance is got from tr=gp.transformation or tr=ins.transformation, to find the 'inverse' use tr.inverse! etc depending on the 'direction' of the transformation you are applying... Multiple transformations can be accumulative - using tr2*tr1*tr0 from inside...out.

dukejazz

I found this awhile back

send_action code
21939 Insert clipboard contents at original location.
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=23321&start=0

thus this is a 'paste_in_place'; a send_action code for -pc only (7,1 - 8.m5 ...)
Sketchup.send_action(21939)

For the Mac I would like to know too?.

TIG

BUT since there is no ability to change the active-context through the API then paste-in-place is pointless...
If you Cut or Copy then Paste with send_action it's sine because the original selected object and the newly copied/cut then-pasted one are in the same context, and the user gets the copy on their cursor to place manually.
But let's assume there were a seemingly usable Paste_In_Place send_action available through the API, how would it be of any use ?
Say you are in the the model and want to Cut an object, open a Group and then do a Paste_In_Place on the object inside the Group.
In the API you can Cut it.
BUT you are now stuck as you can't open the Groups context.
Paste_In_Paste will simple place the object back where it was, in the current context !!!

There IS a way to replicate all of this 'in code'... BUT your Ruby_Cut and Ruby_Paste_In_Place into another 'container' custom code needs to make a group of the selected objects, then find that group's definition and then use container.entities.add_instance(defn, trans) on the other container's entities context, applying the container's transformation onto it [with a .inverse ? I write this 'off-the-cuff'], so that it's kept 'in_place'. Once that is done you explode that newly added group inside the container, then finally you erase the original group so the selection appears to have been cut and pasted_in_place into the other container... If you mimic a Ruby_Copy and Ruby_Paste_In_Place it's similar... except on completion you also explode the original group rather than erasing it, and in that way the selection appears to have been copied and pasted_in_place into the other container...