Hello everyone! I’m from China and I’m glad to be here. I’ve only recently come into contact with ruby plug-ins. It’s not long before I get into touch with them. So the following questions may seem childish to you. Okay, please forgive me. Thank you!
The problem lies in:
I downloaded an “htmldialog-examples” template from github, but I found that I placed it directly under the “Plugin” folder and opened SketchUp and found that the plug-in could not be loaded. So I had to write a script to load it, but it failed in the end. Can you help me solve it?
Here’s my load script, but I don’t know what the problem is.
Hello you all,
its very difficult to me to start with html dialogs. I found some examples but I was not able to install them. Especially the above mentioned htmldialog-examples on github. I would be glad someone could explain me how to install them on skechup. Please step by step.
I downloaded all the files as .zip folder. Where do I have to unpack the files? resp. how to start in sketchuppro.
Thank you
spb
SketchUp loads a Ruby file at startup if it is in the Plugins folder (C:\Users\<user>\Roaming\SketchUp\SketchUp 2018\Plugins or Library/Application Support/SketchUp 2015/SketchUp/Plugins). The content of the Ruby file is evaluated immediately, so code that is not wrapped in a method and registered in the UI runs at startup.
Knowing this, you probably have to copy the contents of the src folder into the Plugins folder.
Alternatively you can side-load scripts from any location if their requirements are specified relative to their loader file (not relative to the Plugins folder). This is the case for these htmldialog-examples.
load "/path/to/downloads/src/tutorial.rb"
Check also out the sketchup-bridge project, which provides a different, unified approach to communicating between Ruby and the dialog in both directions.
You can test-drive it with this tutorial extension. If you like it, you can clone the Github project. There is also a sample can be copied into your Plugins folder (before making your own project, rename AuthorName and SampleExtension to your personal namespace).
If it loads without error but the toolbar is not visible, the extension is maybe not yet enabled (in Window → Extension Manager) or the toolbar not enabled (in View → Toolbars).
Hi ZhangjinHeng, actually your problem is the same with SPB’s.
It is not necessary to use a load program.
Putting the .rb example files into the “plug-in” folder is the right step.
However, the “.rb file” should be directly at the “plug-in” folder rather than any folders under “plug-in” such as “examples”.
Then, the extension will load as you re-start trimble or SU.
You can check it under menu “extensions” > “extension manager”
The key problem with Github html examples is that they are 1 step from “complete”.
For example, in the first tutorial “step01.rb”. There are only several methods defined but there are no executive method calls. Therefore, you should add a line to the module:
“show_dialog”
Save it and restart the app again. You will see the html dialog prompts at the app start-up.