Topics created by Dan Rathbun

Moved to plugins section as requested.

@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)

@sawdust_online said:

Tell me, can we deal with sketchup API and another language than Ruby? ... is there any other way ?

You can write extensions in C & C++.

@sawdust_online said:

I use it for about a week but I'm not sure to go deeper. At first it looks as a strongly typed language easy to use for developers but this doesn't turn real. How a language could be easy if it requires two keys for commenting a single line? it's the first time I meet such odd thing!

It would be better to start a new topic about the Ruby language.

Or repost your thoughts to one of the old topics...

Should we / could we learn Ruby?

Where to Start with Ruby?

I looked to see if there was a delete button, but do not see one. Perhaps the post is too old ?

It's still unclear what release they are scheduled for. Sometimes these things end up in new releases only - some times they backport the fixes.

@avariant said:

When displaying data about a variable, does it volunteer variable names or does it just respond with a value?

I would be very disappointed to find out it did

The debugger is exposing nothing new here, the same thing could be done anyway through any of the SU consoles by any savvy Rubyist - using nothing but standard Kernel method calls. Setting trace functions and using the returned bindings to read local and instance variables, get the current method and its call signature, read the call stack etc... can all be done from even the most basic install of Ruby.

You can't actually read the code lines unless they are in a 'plain text' source file (the scrambler presumably 'evals' the unscrambled code, which precludes seeing the source) - but there's not much that can be done to secure the other information without losing the consoles - which would make life very difficult for the amateur developers that we all rely on for our toys!

Updated (2014-03-16) to copy properties of old instance to the new one.

In my case, LibFredo6 is registered as a true extension. If you disable it from the Extension Dialog box, then all my scripts relying on LibFredo6 will be disabled.

I do agree that SU should provide some built-in support for scripts relying on a common library as this becomes more frequent:

managed the requirement of the Lib possibly check its version for compatibility

Fredo

PS: I wonder why there is a field requirement when you upload a plugin, but it is not displayed in the PS tool browser window.

Isn't the Windows 8 UI a logical consequence from the previous versions?

While a technology (graphic processors) is being learned, improved and polished, its development progress is showcased by mediums that it was not intended for (window effects like glass&shadows and other gimicks) and finally overexaggerated in a playful manner. Once this development is completed, the skills are applied for different purposes but don't play a visible role on the scene:
development of perspective painting and realism, overexaggeration and reversal

I only made this thread so people could bitch without starting a flamewar in the other thread.

@gullfo said:

looks more like the former than the latter...

SEE wikipedia: Cycloidal Drive

This has nothing to do with curves made with the Spirograph toy !

🎉

tamic
I use it with SketchUp 7.0
It saves new textures either in the folder your model is saved or in a temporary folder and then replaces materials in the model so you should see it right away

I just started a similar project but using Blender https://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=180%26amp;t=67569

UPDATED code in 1st post to v2.0.1, in refresh() method's next statement to avoid a vicious loop. (We use Hash#has_key?(key) rather than Hash#[key]!=nil, because our v2.0.0 update makes the [] method call the refresh method, so we must be very careful from within the refresh method that any [] method call does not cause a unwanted or unneeded, call to refresh.)

@greenskp said:

all this code is to work in MAC and PC?

Yes it will work on both Mac and PC.

BUT it is meant for you to copy it INSIDE your plugin sub-module.