Camera API not working properly?

renderiza

Hi,

I am testing some code with camera and things are not working, here is example of just one of many;

 camera = Sketchup;;Camera.new
 status = camera.perspective?
 if (status)
   UI.messagebox "Perspective"
 else
   UI.messagebox "Orthographic"
 end

It always says its on Perspective even when its not.

Other examples found here doesn't work as well.. http://www.sketchup.com/intl/en/developer/docs/ourdoc/camera.php#perspective?

I am using Ruby Code Editor to test this code...Any ideas on what is wrong here?

renderiza

That worked..thank you very much!

Chris Fullmer

Yeah, you're not actually testing the state oft he current camera being used in the model, your testing the state of a new camera object - Sketchup::Camera.new. And it looks like new cameras default to perspective. Instead, try this:

camera = Sketchup.active_model.active_view.camera
status = camera.perspective?
if (status)
UI.messagebox "Perspective"
else
UI.messagebox "Orthographic"
end

Chris Fullmer

I do see that what you put there is taken verbatim from the API..... what can I say, oops! We'll need to upgrade those examples.

thomthom

@chris fullmer said:

I do see that what you put there is taken verbatim from the API..... what can I say, oops! We'll need to upgrade those examples.

And many more. cough #typename cough

renderiza

Hi,

I require some help again.

I can't get the following code to do;

Change current scene from "Perspective" to "Orthographic". <--This is done fine
Update current page and preserve "Orthographic" camera. <--The code changes from Persp to Ortho but when I click on page again it changes back to Persp.

How can I solve this?

model = Sketchup.active_model ;
pages = model.pages ;
page = pages.selected_page

camera = Sketchup.active_model.active_view.camera ;
status = camera.perspective? ;
if (status)
    Sketchup.send_action(CMD_VIEW_PERSPECTIVE) ;
end ;

page.update(1) ;

Again thanks for the help!

thomthom

model = Sketchup.active_model camera = model.active_view.camera camera.perspective = false model.pages.selected_page.update(1)

renderiza

Thanks it worked!