Setting Up NetBeans with Sketchup Intellisense, And Debugging

[slbaumgartner]

@wisesketch

Having to drop the line load ‘C:… \RubyProject1-File1.rb’ manually into Sketchup’s ruby console is kind of inefficient but not the end of the world

You could try Jim’s Ruby Toolbar. It allows you to select a Ruby file to load and reload it (after edits) by clicking a single button. Not as nice as if NetBeans had a command to do it, but much easier than cut-n-paste in the Ruby Console!

http://sketchucation.com/plugin/1632-ruby_toolbar

@wisesketch

I wish I knew how to write one, but I am a novice at Ruby and my only programming experience has been using Visual Basic and a few other proprietary application-specific scripting languages.

I think that all of NetBeans is programmed in Java. I wondered how plugins are written because I wanted to see if it would be possible to add “folds” in the editor for more kinds of code (as is, it only does modules, classes, and defs - no if statements, code blocks, etc. I suppose it is out there somewhere, but I couldn’t find clear enough documentation to even get started…

@wisesketch

Second, and this is the most disappointing of all, I was expecting that if I added break-points in a given section of my script, and individually executed (stepping-into) every line of the code in that section; I would be able to see the individually corresponding results being plotted in the Sketchup screen as every line was individually processed.

I agree that would be very nice. I don’t know the technical explanation, but for whatever reason that isn’t how the hook for the debugger is implemented, so no IDE can overcome it. The view is frozen until the debugger lets SketchUp’s main loop start running again.