D. Bur Windows Builder is not working in SU24

Extensions
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I cant seem to get this plugin to work in SU24. I can load the interface but once i try to place the item into the model it doesnt do anything. Any tricks to get this to work? or do we have to wait for the developer to update the plugin? Im dependent on it, any other suggestions for door/window plugins? paid or free.

thanks

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hi,

first, try contacting them. an update could be on the way, or a fix.

second, try opening the ruby console (menu extension/dev tools) then restart sketchup and see if something appears there.
then try using the plugin and again, see if something appears there

(if so, you can copy it all here).

that would tell us where the issue lies

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thanks, i sent the author a message through the extension interface in sketchup

and here is my ruby console after many attempts. sometimes it works when some settings are set to zero:
Error: #<NameError: uninitialized constant DBUR::DB_WM::Fixnum>

c:/users/erujirav/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2024/sketchup/plugins/dbur_windows/dbur_windows.rbe:1015:in `offsetFace’

c:/users/erujirav/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2024/sketchup/plugins/dbur_windows/dbur_windows.rbe:278:in `mainFrame’

c:/users/erujirav/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2024/sketchup/plugins/dbur_windows/dbur_windows.rbe:224:in `createWindow’

c:/users/erujirav/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2024/sketchup/plugins/dbur_windows/dbur_windows.rbe:161:in `createWindowComponent’

c:/users/erujirav/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2024/sketchup/plugins/dbur_windows/dbwindows_html.rbe:312:in `block in windowSettingsDialog’

Error: #<NameError: uninitialized constant DBUR::DB_WM::Fixnum>

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It is not necessary to post the same error report 19 times.

This error comes from the fact that the Fixnum and Bignum subclasses have been removed from Ruby 3.x. Code should just test against the Integer class going forward.

A temporary solution is to define aliases to the Integer class.

If DB_WM is a module then …

module DBUR
  module DB_WM

    Fixnum = ::Integer
    Bignum = ::Integer

  end
end

But if DB_WM is a class, then:

module DBUR
  class DB_WM

    Fixnum = ::Integer
    Bignum = ::Integer

  end
end
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It seems the same error that I had in the old Windowizer. The error messages seem to indicate that the extension is encrypted so it would require Didier to fix it himself. I fear Didier abandoned developing Ruby extensions quite many years ago.

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Yes, but Ruby is a dynamic language whose code objects can be modified at runtime. As long as Didier did not freeze his modules and classes, then a patch file like I show above can define these constants.

If he did, then simply defining the aliases at the top-level would fix any old code that still refers to these now non-defined subclasses. (I am usually against doing stuff in the top-level global ObjectSpace but such aliases do not do much harm, as long as it is only done in SketchUp 24 or higher.)

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thanks for the info. it sounds like, by your account that its no longer being developed. Ill have to look into how to define those aliases.

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i finally got around to try this. opening a ruby console and pasting in:

worked… thanks so much

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any tricks to have this script auto run every time i open sketchup?

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I believe if you put it in a plug-in rb file whose name starts with ! it will load before other extensions.

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You can paste that snippet into the extension’s registrar script, ie:
%AppData%/SketchUp/SketchUp 2024/Plugins/dbur_windows.rb

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12

that worked perfectly.

Thanks again

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