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;

1. Change current scene from "Perspective" to "Orthographic". <--This is done fine

2. 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!