Pro or free version

Al Hart

Is there a way to discover if a user is running the Pro or Free version?

We thought we could write a 3D dummy exporter, or try to access one of the 3D exporters already part of SketchUp.

Does anyone have a different idea?

Krisidious

at the top of the program when open it will say sketchup or sketchup pro

TIG

Sketchup.version and Sketchup.version_number
Returns the current version number.
The Current Version of Google SketchUp Pro is:
6.0.515 for Windows XP, 2000 and Vista
6.0.514 for Mac OS X 10.4 or later
BUT it's also that for the Free version ?

However, since the Free version lacks some features in the Pro one then you can look for their absence ?

For example:
is_pro=Sketchup.find_support_file("Skp2Acad.dll","Exporters")
is_pro is true for Pro and false (nil) for Free...

Al Hart

Kristoff's idea is interesting - at list for English language versions - we could find the SketchUp window and find its title window.

Looking for an exporter in the support files would work if people downloaded different versions for pro / non-pro. Is there a difference between a "free" version and a Pro version which was never authorized after the free 8 hour trial?

Krisidious

it will say expired on the top if it was never authorized...

Gaieus

The window of my Pro says SkatchUp Pro when I start working on a new file or I open a file from within the program.
However when I double click on an skp file and launch the program by that method (file association in Windows XP SP2), it would only say SketchUp.

Maybe it is still due to some file association issues that conflict with SU5 - I can't seem to be able to associate skb files with SU6; they always try to open in SU5.

Al Hart

Hmm, in searching around in some of the ruby code for SU 7, I found this:

Sketchup.is_pro?

                      
#Default on in pro and off in free                        
Sketchup.register_extension meshToolsExtension, Sketchup.is_pro?

Would someone with a free version type it in and see what they get?

thomthom

That should work though, according to the manual; http://code.google.com/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/sketchup.html#is_pro?
SU7 feature.

Al Hart

Thanks TT. After seeing if it worked, I was going to have someone try to type it in in SU6 to see what happened.

Al