Changing Context with the API

[medeek]

close_active will allow me to get back to the root of the model.

active_path will give me a way of checking whether I need to use the previous method to jump back to the root of the model.

Found this gem by Eneroth:

How to get the root Model in the scene?

btw, to esily detect if a ComponentDefinition is open for editing you can do this test def inside_component?(definition) path = (Sketchup.active_model.active_path || [])# This method should in my view return an empty Array, not nil, when the model root is the active context. instance = path.last instance && instance.definition == definition end

However I don’t see a way of passing a group or component to a method which will then allow me to open up that entity for editing. There has got to be a way to do this, otherwise this is a major hole in the API.