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This is a uitility by the SketchUp Development Team to integrate SketchUp extension debugging with various IDEs.
Ruby API debugger for SketchUp 2014 and later. Contribute to SketchUp/sketchup-ruby-debugger development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub (github.com)
Use:
definition.instances[1..-1].each {|i| i.erase! }
@tntdavid said:
If someone shares one of my dynamic components with a user without my extension, it must be impossible to use these dynamic features!
There is no way to make it impossible.
If you must use a DC function try to use a refinement for Ruby 2.0+.
Code example withdrawn. A refinement will not work, because the DC code files would themselves need to use the refinement.
My response is why use a hidden geometric construct to "protect" other components ?
I would instead use an AttributeDictionary.
@tntdavid said:
I added "cube.skp" in "Components Sampler" folder, there is always the same error message.
Why, there's always this error message?
David, code files need to be encoded as UTF-8 without BOM (BOM = Bit Order Mark.)
The first line of all SketchUp code files should also always be the "magic comment":
# encoding: UTF-8
@tntdavid said:
The only thing I find about "String Object" is on this page:
http://www.sketchup.com/intl/en/developer/docs/ourdoc/string
David, The SketchUp Ruby API is an extension to standard Core Ruby, and
adds a few methods to the Ruby's core String class:
http://ruby-doc.org/core-2.0.0/String.html
You need to learn standard Ruby before you can really appreciate what SketchUp's API adds to Ruby.
Here is a set of lists that will help (at the official SketchUp forum):
[url=http://forums.sketchup.com/t/ruby-learning-resources-wikilists/22861:2epja1nk]Ruby Learning Resources [WikiLists][/url:2epja1nk]
(There is similar, but perhaps older list, here ar SCF as well.)
@tntdavid said:
As it is possible to protect all a collection of "Dynamic Components", with a single "Parent Component," I want to import the "Component Parent" along with my dynamic models.
Create a template model that already has your set of component definitions loaded, and then the user can use that template when they start a new model.
@tntdavid said:
Error Loading File C:/Users/DAVID/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2015/SketchUp/Plugins/TNT_ClickWindow3D_Trial_mm/logic.rb Error: #<TypeError: no implicit conversion of nil into String> C:/Users/DAVID/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2015/SketchUp/Plugins/TNT_ClickWindow3D_Trial_mm/logic.rb:6:inload'`Where are my errors, which seem obvious to you?
The error message tells you where the error is:
"C:/Users/DAVID/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2015/SketchUp/Plugins/TNT_ClickWindow3D_Trial_mm/logic.rb:6:inload'`"
The error is in file: "logic.rb", at line 6, in the load() method call.
The error is: "TypeError: no implicit conversion of nil into String",...
... which means your code is expecting a String object, but the object is a reference to nil instead.
I think you mean Component "Reload..." when right-clicking on an instance.
(1) You might set a keyboard accelerator (shortcut) like "CTRL+R".
(2) There is no persistent automation integer ID for this command (that I can find.) The context menus are created "on-the-fly" as needed, and the menu commands are created just before the menu is displayed, and destroyed soon after the menu disappears. (So the "Reload..." command ID is always changing.)
(3) There is no reload API method. But requests have been filed for one. I think there have been some workaround snippets posted in the forums. (Do a search. This was talked about just in the past week.)
(4) I do not see a Sketchup::send_action() string for it listed in this topic:
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=34840
Topics should not be prefixed with "[code]" unless the post is a code snippet or example.
@eidam655 said:
Mainly I would be interested in the Layers per Scene selection matrix.
I believe this was implemented in a cross-tab of checkboxes by Martin Rinehart.
The plugin series is called VisMap. (I do not know if he ever finished the Pro edition.)
See links to his plugins here:
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323%26amp;t=28782#MartinRinehart
If the DLL does not have Ruby interfaces, then you will need to load and use it via the Ruby Fiddle library.
"Some_Dict_Name" needs to be "Medeek_SomePluginName" at a minimum, and can be expanded even more, like: "Medeek_SomePluginName_Purpose" if "SomePluginName" will have more than one dictionary, each used for different purposes.
Or you can nest dictionaries inside another dictionary. So you can have one toplevel company dictionary for all your plugins, called "Medeek" (or whatever) and create child dictionaries for whatever plugins that need them. Those child dictionaries could have grandchild dictionaries.
But it is most important to know that you must separate your dictionaries from those of other authors. (It is up to you how to separate your various plugin dictionaries.)
@picpic020960 said:
how to for write data to excel from ruby ?
Try something simple like:
def set_value(row,col,val)
#
@xl.activesheet.cells(row,col).value = val
#
end ### set_value()
@picpic020960 said:
other question :
[Do you know if there] exists 'macro' recorder as in Excel ?
Whatever exists in Excel, and has a built-in VisualBasic interface, can be accessed via WIN32OLE (from Ruby.)
So, refer to the VisualBasic object model for Excel:
MSDN: Object model (Excel VBA reference)
The question is not asked using the proper terms.
(1) DISKFILE:
The scrambled file cannot be modified after encryption. File encryption (aka scrambling,) is a disk file protection only. With SketchUp version 2016 and higher, a signature hash is generated for most executable files in the plugin sub-folder. This hash is checked against the files for any changes, and if the files have been changed, then the plugin may not load, depending upon the user's extension load security policy setting.
During extension load, the rbs file is decrypted into plain text Ruby code in memory, and then passed to Ruby for evaluation, IF the extension load policy check was verified.
(2) RUBY OBJECTS:
Ruby is a dynamic programming language.
This means that Ruby objects (like modules and classes,) can be opened for editing during runtime, and modified. Such modifications can be adding, overriding or deleting methods; adding, changing or removing constants pointing at other objects of various kinds; adding or changing variables (instance or class vars); defining entirely new classes and modules, etc.
SO, your plugin is loaded from a scrambled rbs file, which creates some plugin sub-module inside your author/company toplevel module. Inside this there is some functionality accessed via a method call.
Later on, some other file (scrambled or not,) from another one of your plugins, or some statements executed in the Ruby Console, CAN modify the Ruby objects in memory that the previous rbs file created.
But, the modifying code should be sure to first test the Ruby ObjectSpace, for the presence of the Ruby object (usually a module) to modified. A simple if block can do it.
if defined?(BomaStudio;;SomePlugin)
BomaStudio;;SomePlugin.module_eval {
# code to evaluate within your submodule
@@a="my text"
run_my_function(@@a)
}
end
Okay?
There is one caveat. Module and Class definitions can be frozen to prevent runtime modifications, and there is no way to unfreeze objects at runtime. So objects to be modified must not have been frozen.
Follow proper etiquette !
Do not modify the classes and modules of: the Ruby core or standard Libraries; of other authors or companies; and especially the Trimble SketchUp Ruby API.
@thomthom said:
hm... that's a tricky one... There is an event for extensions being unloaded. But no generic load event...
What I have done in the past is create a custom subclass of the SketchupExtension class. In this subclass, I override the load() method being sure to first call super then do what I need to do when the extension has been loaded.
require "extensions.rb"
module CAUL;;VrayAware
class VrExten < SketchupExtension
def load()
super # call load() in superclass
#
# Do other on load stuff here.
#
end
end
@@ext = VrExten.new("Vray","CAUL_VrayLoader")
# Set the rest of the extension variables (version, creator, etc.)
Sketchup.register_extension(@@ext)
end
@caecarvalho said:
After you create your model in SU, using groups and components, I could toggle this button and it would disable sticking geometry.
This is not possible.
Just FYI, ...
(1) your script does not use any of the features in the "sketchup.rb" file (which is trying to load "langhandler.rb",) and therefore it is not necessary (or desirable) for you to try to load "sketchup.rb" in your script.
Ie, only require actual dependency files.
(2) The Tools folder is protected in SketchUp version 2016 and higher. It is for Trimble use ONLY. Do not put your scripts in this folder.
Put them in a sub-folder of the "plugins" subfolder, of the user %APPDATA% path. Ie,
plugin_path = %USERPROFILE% + "\\AppData\\Roaming\\SketchUp\\SketchUp 2016\\Plugins\\" + "YourCompany_YourPluginName"
(3) SketchUp loads it's OWN implementation of Ruby. It does NOT use JRuby !
So, ...
ScriptEngine jruby = new ScriptEngineManager().getEngineByName("jruby"); jruby.eval(new BufferedReader(new FileReader("C:\\product\\SketchUp\\SketchUp 2016\\Tools\\api_dev.rb")));
... is worthless.
You need to start the SketchUp application using a -RubyStartup parameter:
"C:\\product\\SketchUp\\SketchUp 2016\\sketchup.exe" + " -RubyStartup " + plugin_path + "\\api_dev.rb"
And this diagram is a bit out of date. (There are some missing classes, and perhaps changes since it was drawn back in the v7 and v8 days.)
http://www.sketchup.com/intl/en/developer/docs/diagram.php
Also,...
@iltis said:
For example : ArcCurve (arcs and circles) is a subclass of the Curve class, and an edge is a part of a random curve ...
Implies an incorrect assumption.
The SKP document object hierarchy (ie, the model database tree) is a wholly separate construct than the Ruby class hierarchy and relationships.
For example, the Sketchup::Edge class is not a sub-class of the Sketchup::Curve class. Both, are descendants of the Sketchup::Entity class. Sketchup::Curve and Sketchup::ArcCurve objects are special collection classes that connect edges together, but are not themselves an actual "model element". Sketchup::Edge objects are an actual model element, and so are a sub-class of Sketchup::Drawingelement.
given:
cmd = "c:\\program files\\..."
one of::
system( "start \"#{cmd}\"" )
or:
system( %[start "#{cmd}"] )
or:
system( "start", %["#{cmd}"] )
or:
%x[start "#{cmd}"]
See Ruby docs on literal strings:
http://ruby-doc.org/core-2.0.0/doc/syntax/literals_rdoc.html#label-Strings