Is there a option to highlight specific entities in a color?
I’m trying to build a treeview of the entities in my model and would like to distinguish the entities I just selected. I thought about temporarily assigning a material and restore the old one as soon as the “selection” is finished, but this seems way to complicated for a usually simple job.
You could use a temporary layer with a distinct color assigned and switch into ‘color by layer’ on selection…
although, the view.draw methods are the de-facto way of highlighting selections when inside a Tool…
john
You could activate your own custom Ruby Tool and draw your highlights using view.draw calls.
That’s what I do with Solid Inspector: Extension | SketchUp Extension Warehouse
It avoids the overhead of modifying entities - as well as making sure you don’t clutter the undo-stack.
Will the view be reset after I paint on it, or do I net to do that manually?
The view will be reset a number of times, and you need to make sure you redraw in the Tool.draw(view) method. To manually trigger the view to draw - such that draw is executed - you’d call view.invalidate within the tool.
By the way, you can inspect the source for Solid Inspector on BitBucket: https://bitbucket.org/thomthom/solid-inspector