Scene rename-missing dialog box

jojo9

Hi,
i have a plugin (downloaded from ruby depot i believe) who states to rename scenes. Scenes are renamed always with prefix "scene" but thats not what i wanted.
the script seems to use dialog boxes too, but i never got the choice to enter another scene name. Whats wrong?

Here, the code:


# mirale999 first release, with Thomthom's help.
# Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for 
# any purpose and without fee is hereby granted
# Freely use
# Name               ;          Named_Scene.rb
# Date               ;          v1.0 11/12/6
# Description        ;          To Let you rename it upon adding a new scene
# Menu Item          ;          View -> Add Named Scene

# It works like this ;
# Hit the hotkey or click the menu item, give you an inputbox, you can
# choose to give the new a unique name, Or leave it to its default and
# create like normal; Scene 1- Scene 2- Scene 3-...
#----------------------------------------------------------------------------

require 'sketchup.rb'

module Named_Scene
  
  # Add menu items.
  unless file_loaded? File;;basename(__FILE__)
    add_separator_to_menu("View")
    UI.menu("View").add_item("Add Named Scene") { self.add_namedScene }
  end

  @@scene_i = 1

  def self.add_namedScene
    model = Sketchup.active_model
    pages = model.pages    

    # Ask user for page name.
    list = []
    prompts = ["Scene Name;"]
    defaults = ["Scene"+" "+"#{@@scene_i}" ]
    input = UI.inputbox( prompts, defaults, list, "Add Named Scene" )

    # Check if the user cancelled.
    return if input==false

    # Get data from result array
    scene_name = input
    @@scene_i = @@scene_i + 1

    status = pages.add( scene_name.to_s )
  end
  
end

#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    file_loaded File;;basename(__FILE__)
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

TIG

Do you not get the input box saying 'Scene 1' etc?
The code
"Scene"+" "+"#{@@scene_i}"
can be edited to say whatever default you want, perhaps
"JoJo"+" "+"#{@@scene_i}"

jojo9

Hi,
yes, it is a way. However, scenes situations change and the need to rename them differently too. So, i wanted a dynamic way to assign names, using a dialog box.
Nice would be too, to have the option to rename only a part of scenes, like to rename scene 1 through 4 (of 10) with a given name, followed by a numeric value in one shot.

TIG

Look at smustard.com... I think there's a scene-renamer ?

jojo9

Hi,
i got the plugin. I tried to:

#1) rename tab 1 to tab 3 using the !-prefix, as the script explains.
However, the scheme continues to extend the name convention of the first tab to all scenes, and ignores the ! in tag 4, were i wanted to start with another (the given) name scheme.

#2) exclude tabs 4 through 10 == ex-and included scenes are renamed without distinction.

Sum.
Renaming with a custom name should be easy. And not via wildcards, special characters of any sort. Implicit, Intuitive methods are easy to forget and not valid for everybody.
I'm not a 'friend' of message boxes, because they block the workflow, but sometimes they are fine. They are simple to invoke; plus renaming should help to organize and therefore limited to active scenes in my opinion.

renderiza

Hi, have you seen [Re]Scene? It can rename scenes and do other stuff as well. Here is link...
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=472206#p472206

Also if you only want to rename just a few of your scene just uncheck "Include in animation" the ones that you don't want to rename. Hope this helps...cheers!

TIG

Thanks Renderiza...
I thought there was another tool - forgot about you
I think yours will do what he wants...

PS: I have adjusted your PluginStore listing's description text to include the words 'rename' and 'reorder', so a search for scene rename will find it