Toolbar position

bomastudio

Dou you know any way to show a new toolbar near the mouse arrow position?

kaas

For native toolbars I don't think you can.

But for your own ruby scripts you can. If I remember well, you can read the current position of the mouse in ruby & javascript and feed that info to a new webdialog in ruby.

Dan Rathbun

The positioning of UI::Toolbar objects, is (currently) not exposed in the Ruby API.

On PC, I know how to work around this with Windows system calls, but have no clue how to do this on Mac SketchUp.

bomastudio

OK. Could you give some more info about the Windows trick? MAC users aren't in my plan for the next year....

Dan Rathbun

Everything you see on the screen in Windows is an object subclass of window. So a button is a window. A toolbar is a window, with child button windows. This means you are searching for a child window (toolbar) of the owner window (the SketchUp application main window.)

See this old post:
[code] Win32 Moving/Showing/Hiding Toolbars and Dialogs

Just be aware that the Win32API class is deprecated, and the old so compiled binary, was replaced in Ruby 2, with a ruby script wrapper (of the same name,) that calls the DL library transparently.
But DL has also been deprecated, and produces a warning to STDOUT whenever it is first required, ie, a require("dl") call is first made.

The code should be rewritten to use the Fiddle library.
http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.0.0/libdoc/fiddle/rdoc/index.html

As for the Windows API, that documentation is all on MSDN:
Windows API
Windows Reference
[Window Styles](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms632600(v)
[Window Messages](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff468921(v)
SendMessage Function
[Using Window Procedures](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms633570(v)
etc.,
etc.

bomastudio

A lot of things to study..... many thanks Dan....you are a GURU!!!