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      Pass array to a c/c++ ruby extension

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      Never could understand SWIG much. Cryptic interface language.
      If you intended to write a library that needs interfaces in multiple scripting languages, then SWIG might lessen the workload. Or if you are wanting a Ruby interface for some library already written that has SWIG interface files, then again I can see using SWIG.

      But for an extension that will be written specifically for SketchUp, since it only uses Ruby, I cannot see much use for SWIG.

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      Send mail from Sketchup

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      Dan RathbunD

      And to have an email form filled out, but not automatically sent:

      UI;;WebDialog;;new( "Email...",true,nil,200,100,300,200,false ).instance_eval { email = "mailto;//someone@example.com"<< "?subject=This%20is%20the%20subject"<< "&cc=someone_else@example.com"<< "&body=This%20is%20the%20body" set_html( "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n <head>\n </head>\n"<< " <body>\n <br/>"<< " <a id='elink' href='#{email}'>Firing an email!</a>\n"<< " </body>\n"<< "</html>" ) show() { execute_script("elink.click();") } }

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      But there must be a registered email client for the system.

      Ie, it does not work on my machine because I use browser based gmail, and never registered any email client application on this machine. (So for me two error messages popup stating there is no registered email client.)

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      HoloLens and SketchUp

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      Corrected link:

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      HoloLens and SketchUp

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      Get the coordinates of the corners of the viewport

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      I'm not sure if I used any C++ 11 syntax in that C++ extension, but Ruby C++ extensions as a whole give so much opportunities to writing great plugins in SU. I'm amazed that SU team chose Ruby over all available programming languages. Back then, when SU was first released, Ruby wasn't even popular, but SU team bypassed popularity and chose Ruby because Ruby was both simple and powerful due to a feature in supporting C extensions. Today, Ruby is becoming popular and is improving in performance and in features. Something tells me that SU had and still has really great minds behind it because choosing Ruby was the best path SU team could ever take. Imagine if they chose python or any other high level, limited programming language. SU would have been a totally different story from what it is today. Huge thanks goes to SU team for making SU a very great software for writing powerful plugins.

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      Error creating groups and components

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      nope, I have not copied, create the object there.
      There are also problems when making copies when it is inside a group or component nonorthogonal...
      is very strange behavior you describe

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      Put forward drawings openGL

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      Anton_S your code is very interesting (highlight_picked_body.rb), I have never used Start and stop operation inside a custom tool, I like the result, I am studying this code

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      Units in the input value through the VCB

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      Dan thanks for replying, I found a recommendation yours here

      http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=180%26amp;t=55722%26amp;p=505915%26amp;hilit=units+vcb#p505915

      which led me to the article by thomthom

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      I only have problem for receiving angles values ​​with comma as decimal separator, then I am forced to use the following

      text_input.sub!(',','.') text_input.to_f.degrees

      I do not know if there is a better method

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      Unexpected result (closest_points)

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      sorry for my silly mistake, thanks Sdmitch

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      Problem with the boundary of the viewport and my tool

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      Same here on SU8. On both sides of the window.
      If I hold down the mousebutton near border of window(at the right side where there's no tools)and do a mousemove/nudge it starts panning right sometimes.

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      Create text in the viewport

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      Yea, it's a known - annoying - limitation with draw_text. Both color and size would be good to have.

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      Move instances softly, using the mouse

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      @dacastror said:

      ... I wanted to look at your plugins and I did not find them, look in the pluginstore and select search by author...

      you won't find them, there's a couple on limited beta release and a few of mac only dev tools that almost no-one else has even seen...
      I keep adding to them on the day I decide to release, then I want to test again, ect... etc...
      I PM the closest to release one if you want to comment on it...
      john

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      Error in the view (Vray 2.0)

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      apparently this problem has been fixed in version 2.00.24

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      Count instances correctly

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      Thanks Dan, this can give me a hint, I'm testing with the definition given there, but in my testing model (instances.skp) gives me a wrong number of instances, sometimes less or sometimes more, I do not know if I'm misapplying the definition count_instances ()

      # you must have a selected instance def count_instances() num = 0 if @editpath.size == 1 i = @editpath.last else revpath = @editpath.reverse i = revpath.shift end if i.is_a?(Sketchup;;ComponentInstance) num = i.definition.instances.size elsif i.is_a?(Sketchup;;Group) num = i.entities.parent.instances.size end if @editpath.size > 1 revpath.each {|i| if i.is_a?(Sketchup;;ComponentInstance) num = num * i.definition.instances.size elsif i.is_a?(Sketchup;;Group) num = num * i.entities.parent.instances.size end } end return num end mod = Sketchup.active_model sel = mod.selection ruta = mod.active_path (ruta) ? (ruta[ruta.size] = sel[0]) ; (ruta = []; ruta[0] = sel[0]) @editpath = ruta count_instances()
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      Create groups of instances correctly

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      @dacastror said:

      ... Dan, but I think you need to add the following properties;

      material, attribute_dictionaries, layer, description, entity_name, name, receives_shadows, casts_shadows

      I wonder if there are more properties that can be inherited by the new instance
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      Yes you are correct. Just before the old instance is deleted, it's properties need to be copied over to the new instance.

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      New things in the API (sketchup 2014)

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      tt_suT

      @dacastror said:

      think there had never been so many changes and corrections in a single version!

      And we're just getting warmed up! 😎

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      Fit_plane_to_points problem

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      I did not understand point.offset, with this example I understand a little more, thank you very much Thom, very interesting this 😄

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      Remove layer

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      @tig said:

      I did write a whole raft of 'missing' layer methods...
      I just thought I'd let you learn by doing... 😉

      I learn by looking at what you wrote !

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      Add_polygon seems very slow

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      thank you very much for the replies dan and Thomthom, I'll take a look at the code Thomthom experimental, to see if I can use some of this code

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      Help with .followme

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      you sent me on the right track, thanks sdmitch

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