If you can help me with this I will reward you handsomely in forum gold. If you are a Ruby guru pm me or post here!

you should post your problem. do you have a syntax problem, general question on how to get started, do you want someone to debug your code, or what?

a lot of errors are syntax-, framework-, or general problem solving related. depending on what is it, we might not need to know ruby to help you.

This post was edited by carteblanche on Aug 19 2012 05:59pm

welll my ultimate goal is to be able to develop a plugin in ruby that i can interface in google sketchup to customize shortcuts. say I want to change draw line to the letter q, i want to be able to make a script that does that. the reason why i dont just go to preferences and manually do it is because ultimately i want to interface this ruby plugin with a kinect input (map hand gestures to certain functions, etc.)


i actually haven't started writing it, but i need to know everything about how to make a plugin in ruby for google sketchup. even if you can find any good resources for it i've looked all over and cant find like a step by step instruction on what programs to even download or what. any help would be greatly appreciated.

This post was edited by PraizeAllah on Aug 19 2012 09:27pm

can you explain what's wrong with google's tutorial?

http://www.sketchup.com/intl/en/community/developers.html

https://developers.google.com/sketchup/

https://developers.google.com/sketchup/docs/tutorial_helloworld



im thinking the odds that any given person who knows ruby wrote a plugin for sketchup is probably pretty slim. it's always best to provide as much info as you can in your first post.

This post was edited by carteblanche on Aug 19 2012 09:37pm

bump, still trying to figure out how to make a plugin/macro to map to functions in google sketchup

I AM PAYING 1k FG TO HELP ME OUT IWTH THIS PROBLEM I"M HAVING!

Hey guys so i'm having some trouble. I'm trying to create a custom cursor iin google sketchup (which is based off of Ruby) .

Here is my code:

cursor_id = nil
cursor_path = Sketchup.find_support_file("lorca.png", "Plugins/")
if cursor_path
cursor_id = UI.create_cursor(cursor_path, 0, 0)
UI.messagebox "HI"
end

def onSetCursor
UI.set_cursor(cursor_id)
UI.messagebox "FAIL"
end


im using the UI.messagebox to prompt a box open. IF it says HI then that means it does locate the file and it should update the 'create cursor' with that file. and in my onsetcursor function it should set the cursor to the image that i selected. Can someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong? My image is still just the standard pointer

1. what message boxes do you see? HI? FAIL? neither? both?
2. what are the values of cursor_path and cursor_id after the appropriate code executes?

i see the HI message box which means it did indeed locate the file but for some reason it wont set the cursor to the image i want

2) cursor_id is 50005 at first, and everytime i execute after that its +1 more (idk why)
and cursor_path is the path to the file (E:/Sketchup/Plugins/lorca.png)

anyone? iwill pay 2k fg if you can help me!