yeah, it is great. no need to restart and you can do quick things fast. I made a quick test that allows you to select some text and it will say it back using google's text2speech (from translate.google.com). I also have a twitter jetpack that adds some additional information about an user. think I will jetpack one of my bookmarklet as well.

@thomthom said: You have a .hta application, you also use that in a Webdialog. You use WebDialog.set_file("myHTA.hta") and window.location.href = "myHTA.htm" ?? Firstly as htas are not compatible with Macs we thought we ought to try and get a WD version working for them. Secondly we know we can launch Sketchup from an hta but we haven't got as far as seeing how to manipulate within it preferably from a single plan/do interface. Anyway thanks again for your help. I thought you deserved some kind of explanation. Regards Chris

@ webdialog votes: Yes!I have in fact been using sketchup's "UI::WebDialog.new()"frequently. The Attachment below is a webdialog that contains easy-to-access tools. Contains weld, delete complanar edges, makeface, and more.Just make sure 'ToolsInDialog.rb'(file) and 'stuff'(folder) are in "Plugins".It may have errors, but it is being checked. [image: Nyif_Capture.JPG] Tools In A Dialog

I had a look at it. But I get an Access Denied message when I try to call back to Ruby. Turns out IE's XMLHttpRequest only works with files on the net - not local files and other stuff. http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/showpost.php?s=d7e6a32ad41106e35a2d51afbce8f374&p=749574&postcount=10

Doing some more testing. I added this meta tag to a Strict document: <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8"/> The user-agent string still reported IE7, but the new CSS feature outline worked. If I remove the meta tag the outline property doesn't render. And just to make sure, I used document.documentMode to get the render mode, with the meta tag it reports IE8, without IE7. So this is another nail in the coffin for the user-agent string <- mostly pointless and highly unreliable. I attached the test code I used. Extract it to your plugins menu and type this into the Console to open up a webdialog: dlg = UI;;WebDialog.new("Test") dlg.set_url Sketchup.find_support_file "test.html", "Plugins/" dlg.show It will first report IE7 mode. But remove the comments around the META tag and see how the blue outline now renders and the JS reports IE8 mode. You can also see the different behaviour from regular IE windows. test.zip

Will you keep us posted on this forum?

Unless you're still using SketchUp 7 or 8, you don't need this; and even if your are, you still probably don't need it. What problem do you wish to solve by running this code?

Right, Have been playing with Teamviewer lately and you could basically collaborate on SU through that - the letdown is simply refresh rate from connection speeds - hence my comment about 1Gbps. A non-technical answer

I would check out FreshBooks. It's a great invoicing program, with plugins to track time and incorporated that information directly into a clients invoice. http://www.freshbooks.com/

@kwistenbiebel said: The way I see it, Google Earth is obsolete since G maps Streetview got mainstream (as said above). I hardly ever use Google Earth but I very often use Maps. Why would I want to download an app (GE), if G Maps does a far more photoreal thing out of the box straight in my browser...? The logical evolution would be seeing technology developed that extracts 3D from both street view input combined with the satellite top view....automatically. The proof of concept is already there (ThomThom posted it somewhere). I really can't imagine the whole world being modeled by hand for Google Earth. It feels old fashioned, will never be completed and to be honest, the current low poly GE models very often look crap. Have you seen Place Pages on Maps yet? You might reconsider the usefulness of geo-located 3d models. Check out this as an example: http://maps.google.com/maps/place?cid=14784564406270036321&q=cathedral%2Bdakar

http://designer-info.com/Writing/sketchup_3.htm http://designer-info.com/Writing/sketchup_4.htm

@chrisglasier said: And in Google SketchUp Ruby API what's the difference between PagesObserver.onContentsModified and PagesObserver.onElementAdded ... Now I have got to the point where I am checking what happens when the scene machine is plugged in to a model with no scenes. It is sensible to add one or more scenes to get started. But when I do that onContentModified sets off the JavaScript function for a scene selected from an existing set and throws an error. I suppose I will find a way round, but it does not seem right when there is " onElementAdded." There again I could have missed something fundamental. Either way I would appreciate some clarification. Thanks Chris

@jim said: I don't want all my software integrated so tightly. I wouldn't mind if it meant that their software was more stable as a result, but it's far from. As for Google's new homepage's image search options...

This is definitely one of the best animating plugins IMO and hope it continues developing

One of the reasons I asked was that I wrote this LDraw importer. But the LDraw axes system does not match SketchUps, and I really want the importer to correct this on import. You can see the import works, but I haven't been able to figure out how to trasnform the geometry during the import so it uses a SketchUp axes that people are familiar with using. [image: l2Tt_019.jpg]

There are several free recovery software available.

There will most likely be some performance hit, but it's not likely to be significant. My personal opinion is that if it is reasonable to code the appropriate "if" conditions (like version number), you are better off doing that. For a simple issue like this, probably irrelevant; for more complex code, you'll want to be more careful.

Jay, Gone away - I don't have a mirror of the most recent updated site: http://code.google.com/apis/sketchup/docs/index.html I used a command line program named wget to mirror the site originally. Windows users may find hTTrack useful. http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wget.htm http://www.httrack.com/

Hello Jim, Off lately your link to download this plugin doesn't work, there must be some issue here. cause when I search for the same it shows no result in the store. Now I am at a dead end with my work.

Thanks Martin, but it is the same as using Follow Me on a couple 6-sided "circles" to make a sphere.