Posts made by T.M

T.M

My point was actually to make the color change very graduate, so the "index" solution is probably what I'm looking for.

Since the colors are described by RGB, I'm guessing it's not easy to play with those indexes in order to pass gradually from a color to the other. Each of the indexes describe an amount ranging from 0 to 255 right? (by the way, in opposition to what you said, white would be [0,0,0] and black [255,255,255] wouldn't it?). Since each intermediate color has its own ratio of red green and blue it's surely going to take some effort to find my way through this.

Has any scripts been already written that uses this in a way or another so I could get some inspiration?

Dan I just saw your post while writing this one, regarding what you wrote, is there any way to describre colors in rubby other that the RGB way? Like you say, a linear "strip like" color space would be perfect (and I believe doesn't exist)

T.M

Hi!

I was asking myself if anyone could once more bring light on this issue of mine.

I was wondering if it was possible to create a script that colors a face to a certain color depending on the value of a variable?

Let's say I have a variable that can stretch from 0 to 100, can I, depending on a value, color the face from blue (for 0), up to red (100), which would accordingly assign orange, yellow, green etc to the values in between (rainbow style one would say)?

I guess it could be something to do with the red, green, blue parameters of the color but I'm not too familiar with this and I'm not quite sure of how these parameters have to change to make the "fade" right in my case.

T.M

Thanks for you responses!

And yes you are right, I need to organize my scripts better, you've been of great advice!

T.M

I guess it's not just a question of putting the $wd.show on top, so how can I be sure in my code that execute_script is executed when the HTML DOM is loaded? Do you have any suggestions of correction for my code (even global) that could lead me?

T.M

Hello,

I've been training myself to get used to creating Webdialogs with javascript and I have recently encountered a problem. I've been trying to code something that gets the materials of each face of a pre-drawn cube (except the bottom face) and simply show these in a webdialog.

My ruby code is the following:

$wd = UI;;WebDialog.new "Dialog"
path = Sketchup.find_support_file "Code/Document.html", "Plugins"
$wd.set_file path

vect = Geom;;Vector3d.new(0, 0, -1) 
f_count = 1
		
Sketchup.active_model.active_entities.each{|j|
if j.class == Sketchup;;Face && vect.samedirection?(j.normal) == false
	arg = "'" + j.material.name + "'"
	$wd.execute_script("defMat" + f_count.to_s + "(" + arg + ")")
	f_count = f_count + 1
end #if
}
					
$wd.show

And this is my Javascript code:

<html>
	<head>
		<script type="text/javascript">
		function defMat1(mat)
		{
			document.getElementById("mt1").innerHTML = mat
		}

		function defMat2(mat)
		{
			document.getElementById("mt2").innerHTML = mat
		}

		function defMat3(mat)
		{
			document.getElementById("mt3").innerHTML = mat
		}

		function defMat4(mat)
		{
			document.getElementById("mt4").innerHTML = mat
		}

		function defMat5(mat)
		{
			document.getElementById("mt5").innerHTML = mat
		}
		</script>
	</head>


<body>
Material 1; 
	<b id="mt1">Material</b>
	<br />
Material 2; 
	<b id="mt2">Material</b>
	<br />
Material 3; 
	<b id="mt3">Material</b>
	<br />
Material 4; 
	<b id="mt4">Material</b>
	<br />
Material 5; 
	<b id="mt5">Material</b>
	<br />
</body>
</html>

It seems that the functions of my javascript code are note called because the Webdialog does diplay, but the bold "Material" strings do not get replaced by the proper material names. I know people often get tricked while passing strings from ruby to javascript but in my case I cannot figure out where my error is.

Any ideas?

T.M

Thanks a lot that was helpful!

T.M

Hi everyone,

I was wondering if it was possible to select all objects in a given layer in code, without having to pre-select an object in the same layer?

I know it's possible through various plugins to add to the selection all the objects that are in the same layer as the selected one, but I would like to do it without having to make this pre-selection.

Thanks for your help!

T.M

Thanks to both of you, it seems rather obvious now! I'll try it as soon as I can

T.M

Hi there,

I've been trying to figure out how to determine if a given point is "in front of " a surface or "behind" it, relative to the surface's normal vector.

I can't seem to figure out any good solution so if anyone has a clue it'd be great.

Thanks!