I've experimented with using start_timer, and changing the time and/or partition size on the fly. It just gets far too slow to be worthwhile.

http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=27092&p=234026#p234026

Using an Animation class instead of a timer may be easier to code, but I'd guess the result would be similar.

@jim said:

How's the project coming along?

Unfortunately, it's not coming along very much at all. just been too busy to code (which is my hobby, not my job). The initial goal was to make a server-base sketchup environment so that multiple people could work on a model at the same time. However, my eyes got bigger than my abilities and I started dreaming of a completely new way to collaborate, document, and communicate 3-dimensional information. I got a little overwhelmed when I starting looking into webGL and thought that it would be amazing if there would be a way to put sketchup modelings into a browser webGL viewer similar to google's body browser:http://bodybrowser.googlelabs.com/body.html#. Since then I am cooling the programming jets to write a white paper on the future of architectural documentation and what the technology required for an all-digital design/build environment might look like.

Thanks for the advice on my previous post. I will be getting this project going again hopefully very soon.

-Mike

@dan rathbun said:

When I first try it under Win7 (with Comodo,) the error message is:
Error: #<Errno::ECONNREFUSED: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. - connect(2)>

I disabled Anti-Virus, Sandboxing and Firewall and still get same error.

Perhaps we cannot use "localhost" as a server ?

Maybe need to start a virtual server, WEBrick or something ?

Two Monitors. One has the drawing window, the other has all the toolbars and windows.

thanks for the info, Dan

I have read that article and I think my problem was that I was looking for the easy way out. I was wishing for a simple way to run the "OnClick" attribute, in particular, without having to create the animation object myself. It's easy to change a simple attribute like material, or lenZ but the interactive nature of OnClick and the tweening of the ANIMATE function make it a little over my head. But I guess this is how I learn.

Thanks,
Mike