Waiting for Sketchup.send_action to complete before continuing

[DanRathbun]

@kirill200777

I think you mean that once file saving operation is called by Sketchup.active_model.active_view.write_image it takes place as some parallel process, and active model view may change during that process (still not sure how it caused saving of an incompletely refreshed view in the past).

It happens when animating from one scene page to another. SketchUp did not wait until the transition was done. The image was a view in the middle of the transition. And then SketchUp also would not wait to reset the view.

This is a bit different, as there are no scene pages involved.

@kirill200777

As you admitted earlier API view manipulation calls from Ruby side take place one after the other (i.e. synchronously) so actually there is no need to use view observer to ensure that current view is “up to date” before PNG write activity I suppose.

I’ve actually modified my sample and removed the ViewObserver and got a working plugin.

The strangest thing is that the user never sees any change in the viewpoint. It is like the write_image method is doing everything transparently in memory. If I didn’t check the directory for the written file, I’d think that nothing happened.