This method of apply color working?

renderiza

Hi,

I was testing the following;

face.material = "#ff0000"

Why is this not working?

Here is the link on SketchUP API... http://www.sketchup.com/intl/en/developer/docs/ourdoc/color.php

Cheers!

thomthom

Works for me...

Sketchup.active_model.selection[0].material = "#ff0000"

What happens for you?

TIG

Works fine for me too...
Perhaps your reference ' face' is invalid ?

renderiza

Hi, here is an example of what I a did...

model = Sketchup.active_model
ents = model.active_entities
faces = ents.grep(Sketchup;;Face)
materials = model.materials
m = materials.add "shadow"
  
faces.each do |e|

    e.material = [255, 0, 0] # <--This Works
  
    e.material = "#ff0000" # <--This Do Not
 
end

You can see full code on here...http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=52871

Since I had the input result come in hex mode thru web-dialog what I did to make it work on Ruby was to first change it into RGB in Javascript.

Cheers!

thomthom

What happens when it "doesn't work"? Error messages?

Your snippet works for me...

renderiza

Interesting...

Doesn't work on SU 8 but works on SU 2013.

Is that suppose to happen?

thomthom

Probably a new feature then.

Which explain why I couldn't remember seeing that way of assigning material. (Which I'd written about in my blog: http://www.thomthom.net/thoughts/2012/03/the-secrets-of-sketchups-materials/#hexadecimal-notation )

thomthom

Seems to be a new feature of the Sketchup::Color class.

` Sketchup::Color.new '#ff0000'
Color(255, 0, 0, 255)

Sketchup::Color.new '#f00'
Color(255, 0, 0, 255)`

Works in SU2013 - but not SU8. And Not documented in the docs when it was implemented.

renderiza

I see that explains everything.

It is very good that SketchUp API is being updated...hope to see more changes in the future.

cheers!

thomthom

Yea - I've noticed some changes here and there recently.

TIG

It has been shown in the API for years, but I think it was broken until v2013...

thomthom

0x0000FF has always worked. Was it not that that was displayed?

thomthom

ah... I just checked the Way Back Machine... it was there before SU2013.

http://web.archive.org/web/20130509194228/http://www.sketchup.com/intl/en/developer/docs/ourdoc/color

TIG

That was and is displayed.
But it think the string equivalent was always shown but just didn't work until now