there are many ways to end up with <auto> colors in SU…
I wrote an extension that hopes to aleviate the fustration caused…
it assigns new names using a javascript color names library…
but, on my mac, although the colors are renamed, I can’t find a way to refresh the ‘Colors’ panel to indicate the change was successful…
changing to a different ‘Desktop’ and back works [in the gif it looks a mess]…
any ideas?
john
it doesn’t work for ‘Colors’, possibly because it’s a default Cocoa NSPanel…
john
Can the panel be closed and reopened via %x{} script ?
doesn’t update it either…
I spent hours because I thought the code was making copies…
but when I changed ‘desktop’ to tweak it, it was good when i went back…
john
Sounds like a bug report issue in the making …
I think so, maybe in the morning…
does the PC version assign <auto># to all colors…
or is that another mac bug…
john
here is the simplest ‘fail’, straight from the API plus a name change…
model = Sketchup.active_model
materials = model.materials
material = materials.add('Joe')
material.color = 'red'
material.name = 'Red'
# # these don't clear the 'Joe' material...
materials.current = materials['Red']
materials.purge_unused
# but will purge 'Red' without materials.current line
UI.update_inspectors # 'Colors' is not an inspector panel
# this will expose a closed panel with both materials
Sketchup.send_action('orderFrontColorPanel:')
## this is the only way found from code to clear 'Joe'
Sketchup.send_action('newDocument:') ## New ### ⌘N
Sketchup.send_action('performClose:') ## Close ### ⌘W
john
On PC Windows edition(s)…
model = Sketchup.active_model
materials = model.materials
material = materials.add('Joe')
material.color = 'red'
material.name = 'Red'
#=> Red
… at this point, there is only 1 material (“Red”) in the materials collection, and …
materials.size
#=> 1
materials['Joe'].nil?
#=> true
Also, on Windows editions, SketchUp does not use the separate system based color panel (as it generally stinks, especially the old version left over from Windows 3.x/4.x days. Devs need to be careful to explicitly use newer versions of the common dialogs library, normally thru a entry in the dependent assemblies section of the executable’s manifest.)
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