Force Thumbnail to update?
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My ruby script makes some drastic changes to the user's drawing (erasing most of it), then saves it to a file, then restores all the changes. The issue is that the thumbnail that's stored with the saved file does not reflect the changes made by the script. Any idea how to force the thumbnail to update before I save?
I'm talking about the thumbnails that show up in folder listings, and preview images when using Sketchup's File | Open menu. Thanks, CB.
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And you ARE or ARE NOT doing a save_thumbnail?
Todd
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Am Not. I thought Model.save_thumbnail was just to save a thumbnail to it's own jpg file. I'm talking about the one you see in the preview box when you do a File | Open, or if you turn on thumbnails in an explorer window.
I think I may have found what I was looking for. There's an option under "Model Info | File" called "Redefine thumbnail on save". From what I can tell, the thumbnail only gets generated when you close the file, not when you save without closing, unless this option is turned on. I assume this is to improve performance on autosave, etc. Anyway, if I enable this option (manually), I get the behavior I want. Not sure if that option is available from within ruby. CB.
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