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Dave,

I think it was the following link that I was thinking of - but they're talking about SU, not LO (which I've only recently started using seriously). My mistake.

 [http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=79%26amp;t=24894](http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=79%26amp;t=24894)

Thanks again

ArchToBe

Dave,

Thank you for your speedy reply!

What happens if you export a PDF direct from LayOut? <<

That works! OK, now I feel silly - but wasn't it the case not too long ago that to get consistently acceptable PDFs from LO we had to use a 3rd party product? Unless I'm nuts, I remember advice from one of the popular SU/LO forums a couple of years ago that suggested PDF995 as a means of producing reliable output.

THANKS!

ArchToBe

LO ver. 15.3.331, 64-bit
Win8.1 Pro
PDF995 - latest version, with converter

Greetings to all,

I'm having issues when I do a print preview of a simple LO document using PDF995 as my printer. Specifically, if I draw a simple circle with a solid boundary line the circle shows up just fine in print preview. But if I then use the Shape Style inspector to make the circle boundary into a dashed line, the circle shows up in the print preview as a much larger solid black circle with a ragged edge. Sometime the black circle has a white hole in the center; sometimes not - depending I think on the circle parameters.

Anyone else see this?

THANK YOU!

ArchToBe

Yes! You guys were absolutely right - it was the need for a delay which was causing the problem. As always, you guys are THE BEST!!!

Thomas, I notice you're located in Norway. We here in the US (and elsewhere I'm sure) are saddened by what has happened in Oslo. Please know that our thoughts are with you. Take care.

ArchToBe

Sorry, I forgot to mention what I'm using...

Sketchup 7.1.6860
IE 7

ArchToBe

Greetings to all,

I'm just starting to experiment with web dialogs, and it's not going very well. At this point, I'm simply trying to run a very simple JavaScript function from Ruby. Below are two very simple scripts - one Ruby and one html/JavaScript. All I'm trying to do is get Ruby to launch a JavaScript function which fills a textbox. However, although the browser successfully loads the html file, it appears the JavaScript function is not being fired. I get no error messages, however.

Can you see what I'm doing wrong here?

THANKS!

-------- My Ruby Script... --------------------


# An experiment to fill an html dropdown list from a ruby script.

wd=UI;;WebDialog.new
path=Sketchup.find_support_file "JavaScriptTest1.htm", "plugins"
wd.set_file path
wd.show

wd.execute_script("fillTextBox();") #does NOT work!

-------- My html/JavaScript file ---------------


<html>
	<head>
		<script type="text/javascript">

			function btnButton_onclick()
				{
				    document.form1.txtBox.value = "You clicked !!!";
				}

			function fillTextBox()
				{
				    alert("Entering fillTextBox()");
    				document.form1.txtBox.value = "Hello from Ruby !!!";
                }

		</script>
	</head>
	<body>
	    <form name="form1">
    		<br />
	    	Output; <input type="text" name="txtBox" size="15">
		    <br>
		    <br>
		    <input type="button" name="btnButton" value="Go!" onclick="btnButton_onclick()">
		</form>
	</body>
</html>

ArchToBe

Dan,

Why have you not upgraded to Maintenance Release 2 ?? <<

Because I've been planning to wipe my machine clean and install Win7. If all goes well, I'll have this done by the end of this week, and then I'll update SU.

Hehe.. your not cropping down your screenshots... <<

Yeah, that was pretty slack of me. I've cropped and resubmitted them.

I use a free image editor called: Paint.Net <<

Thanks! I used Windows Paint; crude but it does the trick.

ArchToBe

Chris,

Thanks for your reply.

So now I wonder what advantage does using the DC framework give you in your script making? <<

I was buying into the belief that components consume less resources - but even if they generally are more efficient, I'm not sure that applies when you use dynamic components. If you have 10 instances of a dynamic component within a drawing, each with different parameter settings, then are you still saving resources or has it just copied that component 10 times? I don't know how they've been constructed.

They just seem like a headache to interface with through ruby. <<

I'm getting that feeling.

Thanks again

ArchToBe

Jim (and all),

In anticipation of your next question,... <<

Yes! That works for me. I just set an attribute of a selected DC and it did indeed respond on-screen.

Let me ask you one more question please - and anyone else who's programmed DCs please feel free to give your advice as well.

I'm a bit surprised that there's not more traffic here in the forum concerning this topic of reading and setting DC attributes. I would have thought that this would be the next step from using lots of groups within a model. Maybe I'm missing something?

Maybe I should give an example of what I'm hoping to do. I developing my own version of a housebuilder program by using Steve Hurlbut's program as a guide (thanks Steve, wherever you are). He's using groups (I'm guessing components were not around in '05), so I thought I would try using DCs. In the most simple case, lets say you define a wall stud as a DC, with parameters that define the nominal size (2x4, 2x6,...) and the length. Then, as you bring new studs into the model, you set their size and length appropriately. My assumption here is that this would be superior to using groups. Am I wrong about this? Or are there issues with DCs that make this impractical?

Again, thanks for your help!

ArchToBe

THANK YOU Jim! Indeed, when I loop through the attributes of the component definition I seem to be getting both the formulas and the resultant formula values for the len attributes.

You're the best! Now I can experiment with setting attribute values. Here's my snippet to read the attributes for both the definitions and the instances...

model=Sketchup.active_model
defs = model.definitions

puts ""
puts "----------------------------------"
puts "Script starting..."
puts "----------------------------------"
puts ""
puts "   Starting the Component Definition Phase..."
puts ""

defs.each do |x|
   puts "      Definition name; " + x.name
   x.attribute_dictionaries.each do |y|
      puts "         Dictionary name; " + y.name
      if y.name == "dynamic_attributes"
         y.each_pair {|k,v| puts "            Key; " + k + ", Value; " + v.to_s}
      end
   end
   puts ""
end

puts ""
puts "----------------------------------"
puts ""
puts "   Starting the Instance Definition Phase..."
puts ""

entities=model.entities
entities.each do |e|

   if e.class==Sketchup;;ComponentInstance
      puts "      We've got an INSTANCE named ... " + e.name
      e.attribute_dictionaries.each do |g|
         puts "      Dict name; " + g.name
         g.each_pair {|k,v| puts "         Key; " + k + ", Value; " + v.to_s}
      end
      puts ""

      subEntities=e.definition.entities
      puts "         Number of subentities; " + subEntities.count.to_s
      subEntities.each do |f|
         if f.class==Sketchup;;ComponentInstance
            puts "            We've got a NESTED component"
            puts "            Name of component instance; " + f.name
            f.attribute_dictionaries.each do |e|
               puts "               Dict name; " + e.name
               e.each_pair {|k,v| puts "                  Key; " + k + ", Value; " + v.to_s}
            end
         end
      end
   end
end

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-------- My Ruby Script... --------------------

-------- My html/JavaScript file ---------------