A few months ago Camlaman wrote an example to help write extensions using html dialog. ( [Example]An example to help you how to write SketchUp Ruby code with HtmlDialog - #2 by DanRathbun ) Topic now closed. Well it did help me mainly because it was reduce to most simple expression. Of course this i…

Thanks Dan! That’s exactly what I was trying to say.

What if someone needs to express a length in imperical units? A back quote is not the same as the ’ symbol.

Where we are back at escaping, not replacing.

Problem solved. Very simply: I was passing the info to HTML with a text sub in rb. (an array) That info was not in a good Javascript format. Obviously the purpose of JSON (js object notation) is to format for js. So added one line (.to_json) and pass this formatted info to HTML (text sub still).…

Obviously I replace it back on the other side !!

And what if someone is writing a back tick? Does that become a single quote?

I have a number of characters that are trapped - so the user can’t use them - or accidentally insert them. There is no benefit in using back quotes or carets etc. when dealing with lengths or quantities. This strategy (at least for me) has resulted in very very few user issues.

Perhaps it would help if you open the debug javascript console in the html dialog and try entering the string value your Ruby would pass to javascript. That is, in the Ruby console take the stuff in the argument to dialog.execute_script, assign it to a Ruby variable, and puts that variable (so you …

Thanks Steve, In fact that is what I do. My lack of knowledge is no more with formats and units, it is with how or what to write in the HTML so it has the info sent from rb as a reference. I found clues in my readings, have to boil it down. I suspect this must be simple.

[image] Aerilius: The design of HtmlDialog totally lacks a complete bidirectional messaging support: the callback mechanism is incomplete (JS→Ruby→JS onCompleted without return value) the ability to let Ruby fetch data from the HTML dialog has been removed (on which many people rely, which lea…

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Aerilius January 31, 2019, 3:42pm 54

You mean like WebDialog / HtmlDialog Tutorial using sketchup-bridge?

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