@tomot said:

I'll keep stoking the fires! How about**"Mea Maxima Culpa"**unfortunately this documentary can't be viewed outside Canada, which is a shame, and very relevant today, particularly since a bunch of criminals are going to be engaged shortly to elect the next head of a church.

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That was awesome! a must see, and a true story not a theory.

It's an debug message from V-Ray for SketchUp.

Unfortunately the forum software is programmed to redirect you to the board index after logging in. If you log in anywhere else on the site, it will keep you on the page you logged in (so yes, we thought of it when developing the site but could not hack the forum software itself).

French fries work for Frank Gehry!
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I like your array better!

With thanks again to the 3 Ruby Amigos 😄 I will work on implementing your suggestions this weekend.

I have sent files by attachment, check your email Thomas: It can also happen that your browser may have pop-up screens blocked.

Thanks TIG:

I would never have been able to figure out the self.run routine on my own! 🎉

It took a while for your medication to be absorbed 😄

vector = $pt2a - $pt1a edges1 = entities.add_edges($pt1a, $pt2a) circle = entities.add_circle($pt1a, vector, 1.inch, 16) base = entities.add_face(circle) base.back_material = Sketchup;;Color.new (255,200,100) #use RGB Color numbers base.followme(edges1)

using my coded example: subtracting the 2 points creates a 3d vector which is normal to any circle.

TT you are of course correct.
Within '' only \' within a string and any final \\ are needed - for example \n doesn't apply as a newline.
I've adjusted the original post to avoid further confusion 😒

My solution is more readable. Let me rewrite it, thus:

#default intermediate column placement resetfix =( @fix ? @fix ; @flenx/2-@fcol ) if ... # @fix gets changed here end @fix = resetfix # a new if statement; if ... # @fix gets changed again ... end @fix = resetfix # ANOTHER if statement that may change @fix;

@tig said:

You are only ever giving us half the story... 😕

Sorry about that! I clearly had some difficulty thinking outside the box. The empty definition did not work in this case, so I added a dummy line definition entity and erased it.

#----Do dummy line entities = def_stair.entities # def line = entities.add_line (@p8, @p7) entities.erase_entities line

all is well now, thanks!

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Thanks for this excellent plugin! This is a real time saver for me.

One suggestion for future improvement. When creating SGL Drawer, would it be possible to have additional layout (400, 400). This layout is sometimes used when having wastebasket in drawers.

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@gaieus said:

especially that IE 9 is only for Vista and above

Exactly that is a problem. Now we are happy that IE6 is almost extinct and Microsoft's newest browser is nearly standards-compliant, but now Microsoft seems to abuse IE9 to get rid of Windows XP (and that can take long, meaning we still have to support IE8's peculiarities).

Another problem is that Flash has generally been very cross-platform and cross-hardware and Flash or Java work also ok for 3D graphics (some might disagree). On the other side HTML5 WebGL has been designed not to work on older hardware.

begin # model.start_operation('Add nested group') ### OPERATION # editents = model.active_entities() topgrp = editents.add_group() topents = topgrp.entities() group1 = topents.add_group() r_entities = group1.entities() #(add entities to group1 here) group2 = topents.add_group() rr_entities = group2.entities() #(add entities to group2 here) # ### model.commit_operation() # rescue Exception => e model.abort_operation() puts(e.message) puts(e.backtrace) end

The Sketchup.read_defaults and Sketchup.write_defaults use each PC's Sketchup 'Registry' entries OR a MAC's Sketchup 'plist' file entries... so they should work cross-platform.
The main issue with using the Registry is storing data restructured into a format that can be recovered and then converted back into the required 'class' later - e.g. a string/float/integer/length/boolean/array/hash etc will need some 'manipulation' before writing - but if you have been using a 'file' to store such things then you've been writing them as strings already - when you reread the file you presumably convert the strings back with say string.to_f to make the value a number etc... [like an 'ini' file].
The Registry data exists across sessions globally for Sketchup on each PC, not just the current SKP.
So if you want SKP specific data saving then it's best to use model-attributes to save things with the SKP [you can save attributes as most common data types directly - except a hash] - the data is thereby accessible to all uses on the network when you script reads the attributes as it runs, and later updates the attributes as it closes, this can all be done independent of each PC's Registry entries.

Horses for courses...

@tomot said:

..., I realize that Goto can easily be satisfied using if.

No it cannot.

@tomot said:

My current Ruby already contains some 20 if statements, which are goto's.

No they are not branching statements, they are conditional statements.

But you CAN make them branch off to some other part of your code, by making method calls, in response to the boolean evaluation of the conditional expressions.
if condition_is_true then call_method_one() else call_method_two();

@tomot said:

I should be able link via another if statement the sharing of the stored registry value of the @stylewidth in Dialog 1 and Dialog 2..

Again... in a procedural language, a method call (aka procedure call,) takes the place of the old goto from the old sequential linear languages like Fortran and GW-BASIC.

Whenever you identify a particular place in your code, that you need to "goto" (usually repeatedly,)... then THAT is the spot where you need to begin a method.

I understand fully! and that's why your 1 of 3 of my favorite "SU Ruby API goto guys"
I also have to include TIG! & thomthom!