OK, figured out what is up with "List Textures in Console" I think...

I changed puts to print in the following def from Plugins/tt_material_tools/core.rb and it works in SU2018 (sorry ThomThom - I'm probably not supposed to be messing around in there!?). So general question... is puts no longer valid in 2018?

def self.list_textures
    Sketchup.send_action('showRubyPanel;')
    # Collect textures and sort by size
    mats = Sketchup.active_model.materials.select { |m|
      !m.texture.nil?
    }
    mats.sort! { |a,b|
      size_a = a.texture.image_width * a.texture.image_height
      size_b = b.texture.image_width * b.texture.image_height
      size_b <=> size_a
    }
    # Print textures
    print "=== TEXTURE MATERIALS BY SIZE ==="
    buffer = ''
    mats.each { |m|
      next if m.texture.nil?
      t = m.texture
      size = t.image_width * t.image_height
      file = File.basename( t.filename )
      path = File.dirname( t.filename )
      #puts "#{m.display_name} - #{t.image_width}x#{t.image_height} - #{t.filename}"
      buffer << "#{m.display_name}\n"
      buffer << "  Size; #{t.image_width}x#{t.image_height} pixels\n"
      buffer << "  Size; #{self.readable_file_size(size*3, 2)} estimated uncompressed RGB\n"
      buffer << "  Size; #{self.readable_file_size(size*4, 2)} estimated uncompressed RGBA\n"
      if File.exist?( t.filename )
        disksize = File.size( t.filename )
        buffer << "  Size; #{self.readable_file_size(disksize, 2)} on disk\n"
      end
      buffer << "  File; #{file}\n"
      buffer << "  Path; #{path}\n"
    }
    print buffer
    print "---"
  end

Thanks for a great plugin thomthom. As is mentioned on Extension Warehouse, "List Textures in Console" generates a blank console window. Is this just a SU2018 thing or are other folks experiencing that issue?

YES! I see now. That is some pretty sweet re-engineering of the pretty remedial string functions! I do wish FIND would just return FALSE if the string is not found but oh well. Thanks Again pcmoor!

Thanks pcmoor.

So... trying to understand this. You have:

=if((find("hello",Astring&"hello",1)-len(Astring))<0,"true","false")

where Astrin is set to

hellggggheloxxhell

So in other words

=if((find("hello","hellggggheloxxhell"&"hello",1)-len("hellggggheloxxhell"))<0,"true","false")

Which I think means:
If FIND returns a number that is greater than the length of the search string, return true.

So you are sort of forcing FIND to return something if the search string is not found by a certain position by adding the search string onto the end of the search haysatck,right?

I'm not sure I understand completely but this seems like some ninja stuff!

If you wanted to see if the string "Hello" was in the following attribute string value...

qwertyHello12345

How would you do it?

The trick is, can you return one value (like "TRUE" or "1") if found and another (like "FALSE" or "0") if not?

I would be interested in a Ruby solution too if necessary!

Thank you Dan!

Thank You Jim!

So how about if I wanted to find out if the string "SINGLE" exists anywhere in the string?

Thanks Dan.

So it sounds like really what I am doing is saying

give me entities whose layer property is 'X'
Right?

And regarding...

@unknownuser said:

And yes, transformations of nested objects are a PITB.

I am glad I'm not alone in that sentiment!

BTW, the answer to the original question was that

input = UI.inputbox(@prompts, @defaults, @list, "Select Attribute Target")

returns an array of values because typically the inputbox would present more than 1 option. In my case there was only one input or prompt so when I put input into

set_result = Sketchup.active_model.set_attribute("dynamic_attributes", input, att_string.to_s )

I was actually sending in an array and thus setting a new key in the format ["whatever user put into inputbox"]. Even .to_s did not seem to help...

set_result = Sketchup.active_model.set_attribute("dynamic_attributes", input.to_s, att_string.to_s )

The answer was to get the first item in the array like so:

set_result = Sketchup.active_model.set_attribute("dynamic_attributes", input[0], att_string.to_s )

Alright @TIG, I re-wrote this script trying to comply with your suggestions and it worked! Thank you for your help!

Here is the updated script for your entertainment:

require 'sketchup.rb'
module AttModuleTop
	module AttModuleBottom
		class<<self
			def list_att()
				model = Sketchup.active_model
				attrdicts = model.attribute_dictionaries
				attrdict = attrdicts["dynamic_attributes"]
				if(!attrdict)
					UI.messagebox("AttTools is intended for use within Dynamic Component Files only")
				else
					@prompts = ["What attribute to overwrite"]
					@defaults = [""]
					@list = []
					@option_pairs = ""
					option_string = "select attribute to overwrite"
					attrdict.each{|key,value|
						@option_pairs += "key; #{key} | value; #{value}\n"
						option_string += "|#{key}"
					}
					@list << option_string
				end
			end
			def replace_att()
				list_att()
				new_prompt = "What should it be set to?"
				@prompts << new_prompt
				input = UI.inputbox(@prompts, @defaults, @list, "Select Attribute Target")
				set_result = Sketchup.active_model.set_attribute("dynamic_attributes", input[0], input[1] )
				UI.messagebox('succesfully set ' + input[0] + ' to ' + set_result + '!')
			end
			def load_att()
				list_att()
				input = UI.inputbox(@prompts, @defaults, @list, "Select Attribute Target")
				att_string = ""
				csv=UI.openpanel("Choose CSV File...")
				lines=IO.readlines(csv)
				lines.each{|line|
					line.chomp!
					next if line.empty?
					new_line = line.gsub(",", " ") #replace commas
					new_line = new_line.gsub("  ", "") #replace double spaces
					new_line = new_line.gsub("   ", "") #replace double spaces (again)
					new_line = new_line.gsub("& ", "&") #replace double spaces (again)
					new_line = new_line.gsub("= ", "=") #replace double spaces (again)
					att_string += new_line.to_s 
				}
				set_result = Sketchup.active_model.set_attribute("dynamic_attributes", input[0], att_string.to_s )
				UI.messagebox('succesfully set ' + input[0] + ' to ' + set_result + '!', MB_MULTILINE)
			end
			def report_att()
				list_att()
				if(@option_pairs)
					UI.messagebox(@option_pairs, MB_MULTILINE)
					#puts @option_pairs
				end
			end
		end # end of class
	end # end of module AttModuleBottom
end # end of module AttModuleTop

# menus ##############################################################

if( not file_loaded?("att_tools.rb") )
	main_menu = UI.menu("Plugins").add_submenu("Att Tools")
	main_menu.add_item("Load Attributes") {(AttModuleTop;;AttModuleBottom;;load_att)}
	main_menu.add_item("Replace Attribute") {(AttModuleTop;;AttModuleBottom;;replace_att)}
	main_menu.add_item("Report Attributes") {(AttModuleTop;;AttModuleBottom;;report_att)}
end
file_loaded("att_tools.rb")