Posts made by cjthompson

cjthompson

I can't seem to convert the target groups to components fast enough -- I used 'if (current_entity.typename == "Group") // current_entity.to_component // end', but that only applies at the end of the script so I have to run it twice.. dunno how to make it convert instantly. Tried shoving "Sketchup.active_model.commit_operation" after and then converting the unique components to base components but it won't budge.

the reason why is because .to_component creates a new entity.
Try current_entity = current_entity.to_component.

cjthompson

are you looking for a script to do what you ask for, or are you asking for a tutorial on how to do it?

cjthompson

The reason I was asking was in regards to this post:

http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=22567

Is it possible that the bounding box's initialize was interfering with the web dialog's?

cjthompson

I noticed that this was fixed in 7.1

cjthompson

@avariant said:

unless it was somehow interpreting your initialize as the initialize for those other classes.

I think that is part of it, although it looks like the classes original initialize method runs, too. the global initialize method doesn't run when I instantiate pure ruby classes, so I wonder if it is the C extensions that are triggering it.

cjthompson

Sketchup.send_action(21513) will shrink the outliner, although it will only work on Windows. I'm not sure if it will help or not.

cjthompson

Does anyone know what scope the "initialize" method of a class is?

The reason I'm asking is because I accidently put an initialize method in the global scope, and noticed it was called when dcloader.rb and dynamiccomponents.rb loaded.

I tried some more tests and noticed that some classes executed the initialize method, while some didn't. It seems like classes that were meant to be initialized in ruby didn't execute it, while ones that weren't (Model,Edge,Face,etc.) did.

Has anyone else experienced this?

cjthompson

yes.

cjthompson

this is the user agent string I got from fiddler:

"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648; .NET CLR 3.5.21022; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729)"

cjthompson

As far as I can see, the web dialog uses version 7, even if you have 8 installed.

try creating a web dialog and set the url to: http://www.quirksmode.org/js/detect.html

you should see "You're using Explorer 7 on Windows!" or something similar.

cjthompson

@newone said:

@unknownuser said:

@newone said:

What's wrong with Colorby Layer ?

Try read the value of it. Such a key does not exist.

hey, that was a joke I got your point and you are right...

I'm afraid you are much too easily amused

cjthompson

Okay. This is just plain stupid.

I stepped through my code to find the problem, and it turns out that somehow creating a new bounding box invalidates my web dialog.

here is a code snippet to test with (I used the console):


testWebDialog = UI;;WebDialog.new("Test;",true,"webDAtts",700,500)
testWebDialog.set_html("<head></head><body>This is a test</body>")
testWebDialog.show
puts testWebDialog.visible? #(should return true)
Geom;;BoundingBox.new
puts testWebDialog.visible? #(should return false)

cjthompson

I just looked at the picture you posted again. Do you want flip the axes, instead of rotating them? If so, I don't know if that is possible. It's has to do with the fact that sketchup uses a right hand orientation, instead of left-hand orientation that I'm guessing LDraw uses (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-hand_rule).

Is there a way to change the orientation of axes in LDraw? (I haven't used it myself, so I have no idea)

cjthompson

The transformation.axes method just transforms the object so that it's axes match the internal ones.

try using transformation.axes on the grouponent (I believe you used that one )

then use

grouponent.entities.transform_entities(grouponent.transformation.inverse,grouponent.entities.to_a)

EDIT: Just tried it and it should work.

cjthompson

sorry, I meant executing window.location = skp:callback_method_name.

I think this might be an issue with ASP. I haven't been able to replicate it with html.

cjthompson

@chris fullmer said:

There is a good chance they are part of the Dynamic Components.

yeah. they are part of dcutils.rbs

cjthompson

I've been trying to get a code snippet to replicate the problem, but I haven't been able to. I just wanted to know if anyone else has had this problem.

cjthompson

I tried getting rid of the tools folder, and you were right, they aren't part of the core API. I'm trying to figure out which file it is from, but that might take a while.

cjthompson

ok. just tested with a clean plugins folder and the ones I listed are still there.

cjthompson

@jim said:

It seems like a good idea to stay away from undocumented API methods. They could change at anytime and without notice.

would you suggest adding them into http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=17047 with a warning/notice? I personally don't have any need for them, but they may be useful for others.

@newone said:

Well, tell us about them!

The most useful ones I could find were in Sketchup::Transformation: rotx, roty and rotz which will give you rotation in degrees about an axis, and xscale, yscale and zscale which give you the scaling factor.