Ruby bug or documentation correction; SU 2020.1 page.update(16) vs page.update(384)

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Just noticed a problem in 2020.1.
Trying to hide a group on multiple pages using Page.update(16). It doesn’t work anymore as in 2020.0. To get it working again I used page.update(384).

Api documentation may need a slight correction.

  • 16 - Hidden Geometry & Objects,
    …
  • 128 - Hidden Geometry,
  • 256 - Hidden Objects
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I’d call this a bug. I think 16 should be interpreted as 384, and existing plugins would work without being changed.

Even better would of course be if the API from the starts had constants PAGE_HIDDEN, PAGE_CAMERA etc, and PAGE_HIDDEN being redefined from 16 to PAGE_HIDDEN_GEOMETRY & PAGE_HIDDEN_OBEJCTS in SketchUp 2020.

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Hmmm … but in older versions 16 will still only be toplevel geometry and objects.

Please open an issue in the API Issue Tracker.

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Just entered the issue in the tracker.

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Any movement on this issue? I may or may not be experiencing issues with update in 2020. Am I correct that if I run update with no arguments, this issue should not be a problem?

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Is there “movement” shown in the API Release Notes …

Was the issue that was opened on 5 MAY closed ? (Looks as though it’s still open.)

And it’s more likely you’ll get an answer closer to the root, if you ask in the open Issue.

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The answer was did not appear to be in the dialog in the “API Tracker”.

I gather that the discussion over there was about how Sketchup will distinguish between update calls that don’t honor the hidden object/geometry split in 2020. But I think that only would be an issue if you passed a bitcode as the argument to update?

I am assuming that using update without an argument would update EVERYTHING about a page, no?

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EDIT: You are semi-correct … the answer is KIND OF.

A good lesson in not assuming things. A page object has update flags.
There are setters for these flags, such as #use_camera=,
… and boolean getters, such as use_camera?.

The #update method lets you update a scene page targeting specific flags as those flags are set.

But if you call #update without a numeric argument, then all the flags as set (ie, as you see them checked in the Scenes inspector) for that scene page, will be used.

This can be a bit confusing (as it just confused me.) If the #use_camera? flag is set false by unchecking the “Camera Location” box in the Scenes inspector, then no amount of calling page.update(1) will update the camera location for that scene.

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