Hi All, maybe not exactly what is asked here but because colour accuracy is the topic here and this question is professionally very important for me as well.
As a rule, and only where colour accuracy is priority #1 which happens quite often with me: In these cases I never export a pixel image out of SkUp but always a PDF (with or without lines). I import this PDF into Adobe Illustrator (or any similar tool), automatically select the relevant fill colours and then, within Adobe Illustrator, convert them to the exactly calibrated colours of our own specific Adobe colour profile. If necessary, I also combine this (still rather dull) PDFs within Adobe Illustrator with an ambient occlusion or shadow rendering of my model which I overlay multiplying there.
😉 I hope this method helps...

I use this.

def self.reload() Sketchup.send_action(CMD_RUBY_CONSOLE) load __FILE__ puts "reloaded #{__FILE__.to_s}\n" end

I expect that SketchUp reads these json files as it starts and writes out revised copies as it quits. So, if you edit the file while SketchUp is already running, SketchUp will not see the changes and will overwrite with its in-memory version when it quits. You need to quit SketchUp before editing any preferences files.

@tig said:

C:/Users/USERNAME/AppData/Local/SketchUp/SketchUp 2018/SketchUp/**PrivatePreferences.json**

For example, for the "ExtensionStore" toolbar info, you need to find the entries using some grepping and parsing/splitting... for the toolbar

"RubyWorkspace\\ToolbarsUser-Bar8"; { > "BarID"; 59661, > "BarName"; "ExtensionStore" > },

and from its BarID, its status later on

"RubyWorkspace\\RubyToolBar-59661"; { > "Columns"; 0, > "DockBarId"; 0, > "Visible"; 1 > },

and for its main dialog details

"WebDialog_SketchUcation ExtensionStore"; { > "Height"; 918, > "Left"; 11, > "Top"; 84, > "Width"; 862 > },

for this kind of entry note that another 'prefix' might apply for the newer HTML dialog type - test it..

Great！
Many thanks！
wikii

@rutpin said:

The plugin doesn't work...

Your profile says you are using SketchUp 2021 Free/Make. There is no such version, though. If you are using SketchUp 2021 Pro, it isn't terribly surprising that the plugin doesn't work. It hasn't been updated in more than 7 years. Ruby has changed at least once since then.

BTW, please fix your profile with the correct SketchUp version.

@jim said:

Hi wikii - this topic may be of interest:

http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=180%26amp;t=60568

Thank you for your suggestion, Jim.

It's also a bad idea to set shortcuts anyway [even if you could do it effectively !] - the user might be angry at you when you overwrite their own shortcuts with yours !

You can instruct the user of your tool how to add their own shortcuts, but don't force them - you are meant to be their friend, not their master.

If you want the user to press certain keys to do certain things in your Tool, then you are pretty much limited to Ctrl, Alt, Shift and Tab, or say numbers 0-9 followed by other characters which can be parsed off from the user's typed text input - so "1:3" can be read in as a slope of "1 in 3", or "1left" gives "left" when leading numerals are stripped off...
All other keys can potentially be already assigned to other tools and actions by the user, so pressing "L" for left is unlikely to work as that will likely invoke the "Line" tool - and it's including key-combos like Ctrl+Shift+V [typically for Edit>PasteInPlace]. So that's kind of use in your Tool is essentially a bad idea...

@dan rathbun said:

I've already written a patch, and TIG has updated it twice.

See: Re: Sketucation plugin load error

Thank you!

I use the patch,but there is still different.

when sketchup install in drive c,and start with shortcut in desktop

Encoding.find("locale") #<Encoding;GBK>

when sketchup install in drive c,puts the patch file in tools folder,then start sketchup with shortcut in desktop

Encoding.find("locale") #<Encoding;ASCII-8BIT>

This different will lead some error if filename uesed some Chinese character.

The patch file is still missing something？

Functionally, there is no difference.

BUT.. technically, Kernel::puts(), is a COPY of the instance edition of puts() that got mixed into Object, and will get inherited by ALL other classes and modules.

The Ruby Core Team wrote the Kernel module as both a Mixin and a Library module. They used the module_function() method, so that all the library instance methods (that get mixin in using include,) had module method copies made. These copies can only be called by qualifying them with the Kernel module name.

[ruby:1c8jtequ]Kernel.module_eval "class<<self; method(:puts).inspect; end;"
>> #<Method: Class(Kernel)#puts>
Kernel.module_eval "method(:puts).inspect;" %(#000000)[>> #<Method: Kernel.puts>]

🤓

Upgrade to the latest release: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=45516
😉

@dan rathbun said:

@wikii said:

@dan rathbun said:

How are you doing on the so file version situation ??

I ask the author of the plugin.He told me that plugin use degist.so from 1.8.

Well they need to update the plugin, as SketchUp 8 on Win32 uses Ruby v1.8.6-p287 ...

Thank you!
He told me he will.

I see.

Thank you,Tig!

@tig said:

I think it's because the path is taken relative to the path of the calling script's folder. Since script is in a folder that contains the images/... folder. then it is found OK...

unless the script has been scrambled, in which case the relative path no longer works and you need to use the full path to the images.

Its obviously not that easy to fix, then.

Thank you!
I tested it.As what you say ,when sketchup initialize , my rb files can add themself to the same submenu.

@khai said:

thank you.
this looks very useful indeed.

How to install a .rbs file on Sketchup ?

Box,

After having changed the position of the surface from horizontal to vertical, and changed the path from pointing downwards at an angle of about 42° to 0°, I also used the Scale tool to increase the size of the whole thing by 100; this appeared to make the FollowMeAndKeep Extension do what I wanted. Then I used the Scale tool to take me back to the original size; all was good.

So, I have finally solved my problem and once again thank everyone for their help and suggestions.

johnmtb