Get component definition name

[alexandre sk]

Hi, I try, a lot, but failed.

I am able to get the INSTANCE name and do stuff with it but I have trouble to get the DEFINITION name

Here what i make to get the instance name and printed:

selection = Sketchup.active_model.selection
selection.each { |entity|
	value = entity.name
}
	 
 UI.messagebox("Name; " + value.to_s)

I also got the definition code but don't know what to do with it.

Thx

[Jim]

HI ALexandre,

Simply, like this:

selection.each { |entity|
   value = entity.definition.name
}

or more precisely, you likely want to do something like this:

selection.each { |entity|
  if entity.class == Sketchup;;Group
    value = entity.name
  end
  if entity.class == Sketchup;;ComponentInstance
    value = entity.definition.name
  end
}

ComponentInstance#definition returns the ComponentDefinition of the instance.

ComponentDefinition#name returns the name.

Then to assign a new name, you would use #name=

if entity.class == Sketchup;;Group
  entity.name = value
end
if entity.class == Sketchup;;ComponentInstance
  entity.definition.name = value
end

[alexandre sk]

ohhhhhh this one is for me:

Thank you very much. I was expecting something very simple but not that simple.

Starting to like ruby. I only know php and javascript, but this ruby is good.

Thank you Jim