Error creating UI::WebDialog temporary HTML pages

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Continuing the discussion from [Flat Text] Extension problem creating WebDialog temporary HTML file:

I remember this being an issue some versions back,… where html text created “on the fly” and then passed to UI::WebDialog#set_html would not work. (Like the issue reported here.)

If however the web dialog page was a local html file already, and then set using UI::WebDialog#set_file() it would work fine.

But I thought this was fixed some time ago ?

@tt_su ?

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The standard workaround:

@dialog = UI::WebDialog::new(options_hash)
htmltext = "the html text for the dialog"
htmlfile = "flattext_dialog.html"
flattext_dir = File.dirname(__FILE__)

Dir::chdir(flattext_dir) {
  File::write( htmlfile, htmltext, {:mode=>"w"} )
  t = 0.25
  i = 0
  until File.exist?(htmlfile) || i == 5 # secs max
    i += t
    Kernel.sleep(t)
  end
  if File.exist?(htmlfile)
    @dialog.set_file(htmlfile)
  else
    # write error message to log?
    # Try set_html() again:
    @dialog.set_html(htmltext)
  end
}

# other code

# later delete the generated html file when the dialog is closed.
File.delete(File.join(flattext_dir,htmlfile))

If your on Mac, there might be multiple dialogs open, so the htmlfile names will need to be differenced.

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There was some issue a long time ago. What SketchUp version are we talking about here? What OS?

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I thought it was the initial release of v2014, and that it was fixed in 14M1 (Because [I think,] the bug was associated with the update to Ruby 2.0. I found my old “backquote” patch script in a “test” sub-folder of my 2014 “plugins” folder.)

I believe it was a MS Windows ONLY bug.

BTW, The API Release Notes page has not yet been updated for 16M1.

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Oh, dang. @ChrisFullmer - ping.