hello,
is there any way to define the width of the standard inputbox via ruby?
i have some longer expressions and they are not shown in whole length in the input fields.
thanx
stan
The .UI.inputbox(*args) ⇒ Array, false
aim is to create a simple dialog box for inputting user information, but unfortunately you do not have so much influence how it will look like. It have its own limitation and - as you discovered some small bugs…
You have to use the HtmlDialog class that allows you to create “much better” dialog boxes…
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One of the bugs is that the width of the inputs are set to the widest of the prompts.
hi dan,
thanx for that info . problem easily solved 
extra array of prompts for the menue with a longer empty string added
and voila
regards
stan
Yeah, it’ not ideal, but it is a workaround.
We have a boiler plate example for an inputbox replacement that’s a good start: GitHub - SketchUp/htmldialog-inputbox: UI::HtmlDialog example recreating UI.inputbox functionality in the SketchUp Ruby API
hello, after a longer period i am back in the ruby project. thanx a lot, i saw the github example, but i must confess…i am confused, how to use it. i understand, that i need a rb, js and html files .
is there somewhere an example to download, which generates an inputbox with some lines for numerical or string input, i could download, study and modify? (just to understand , how ruby calls the js, which shows in html and how it sends the data back).
i only need a simple pendant to the old inputbox, only for the scrolling option (when too many parameters have to be desplayed.
thanx a lot
stan
For example, you can check “Examples and Tutorials” section in:
The are simple examples in the GitHub repository’s README doc:
htmldialog-inputbox/README.md at main · SketchUp/htmldialog-inputbox · GitHub
The whole point of that HtmlUI library is that you do not need to understand how the Ruby ↔ JS communication works.
You just use it as described.
hi dan,
a big mountain, i start…
thanx fpr the links
stan