Octane Sketchup Exporter - Full 1022-06

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I have the next version nearly ready... But I' unsure if it'll fix these things...

When you try to run the Exporter in v8 with the Ruby Console open what happens - any error messages ?

Can you also try typing the word octane + <enter-key> [all lowercase letters] into the ruby Console too and report back too.

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Ruby console ouput when trying to launch Octane plugin

Error: #<NoMethodError: undefined method `tr!' for nil:NilClass>
C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/Octane/Octane_1022.rb:234:in `activate'
C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/Octane/Octane_1022.rbin `select_tool'
C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/Octane/Octane_1022.rbin `octane'
C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/Octane/Octane_1022.rb:2872


Typing octane in the Ruby console:

octane
Error: #<Exception: Invalid Dialog>
C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/Octane/Octane_1022.rbin `get_element_value'
C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/Octane/Octane_1022.rbin `getIDvalues'
C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/Octane/Octane_1022.rbin `each'
C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/Octane/Octane_1022.rbin `getIDvalues'
C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/Octane/Octane_1022.rb:247:in `deactivate'
C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/Octane/Octane_1022.rbin `select_tool'
C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/Octane/Octane_1022.rbin `octane'
(eval):234
Error: #<NoMethodError: undefined method `tr!' for nil:NilClass>
C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/Octane/Octane_1022.rb:234:in `activate'
C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/Octane/Octane_1022.rb:255:in `select_tool'
C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/Octane/Octane_1022.rbin `octane'
(eval):234
#<Sketchup::Model:0xc5effb8>

I also tried to switch Internet Explorer to be the default browser - it didn't help either.

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The line #234 tr! error is because it's trying to do something to the 'project_name' and it's set to be 'nil'

If the project is not saved it should warn you then exit.
If the project was saved but it has never had 'Octane' values added then it uses the model.title [with illegal characters made into _] as the dialog's 'project_name' value.
If the project was saved and has 'Octane' values then the 'project_name' is set to be what it was last saved as.

Let's see what we have...
In an existing project please copy/paste this into the Ruby Console and report

Sketchup.active_model.title

then

Sketchup.active_model.title.tr(" ","_")

then

Sketchup.active_model.title.tr(" ","_").gsub(/[^A-Za-z0-9_\-]/,'_')


I suspect that your 'Octane' model's attribute_dictionary could be corrupted and returning odd values.
In an existing project, copy/paste this line into the Ruby Console [without having tried the Exporter tool beforehand]

Sketchup.active_model.attribute_dictionary("Octane").each{|k,v|puts "'"+k+"'='"+v.to_s+"'"}

and see what values you get listed - post them...

You can also try using the following line of code to clear the dictionaries values...

ad=Sketchup.active_model.attribute_dictionary("Octane");ad.each{|k,v|ad.delete_key(k)}

Repeat the code

Sketchup.active_model.attribute_dictionary("Octane").each{|k,v|puts "'"+k+"'='"+v.to_s+"'"}

and you should get 'nil'

Then try the Exporter - what happens ?

Now repeat the code

Sketchup.active_model.attribute_dictionary("Octane").each{|k,v|puts "'"+k+"'='"+v.to_s+"'"}

What happens now ?

The other message about 'invalid dialog' only occurs because the process aborts early due to the preceding 'tr' issue and there is no dialog to tidy at the 'deactivate' stage...