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user1803095
user1803095

Reputation: 89

Ruby Sketchup ... exit

The following script is executed within Sketchup as a ruby script.

notepad = File.absolute_path("notepad.exe", "C:/Windows")
puts "fileName :"+notepad
exec((notepad))

When closing the notepad.exe windows ... it also close/quit Sketchup. How to only close notepad.exe and not Sketchup ?

Thks

Upvotes: 3

Views: 237

Answers (2)

Dan Rathbun
Dan Rathbun

Reputation: 11

SketchUp's Ruby has several easy ways of starting external applications or having files open in their associated external application.

The first easy way is UI::open_url()

    UI.open_url("notepad.exe")

If you want more control over how an external application opens, you can use the Windows Scripting Host via Ruby's (Windows only) WIN32OLE class.

See the Windows Scripting Host

# Run notepad in a separate process with default window type
# and do not wait, return to SketchUp Ruby immediately.
def run_notepad
  require 'win32ole' unless defined?(WIN32OLE)
  WIN32OLE.new("WScript.Shell").Run("%windir%/notepad.exe")
end

Upvotes: 0

Aliaksei Kliuchnikau
Aliaksei Kliuchnikau

Reputation: 13719

You are using exec to run notepad, but according to documentation exec replaces the current process. Try running the command using system method instead - it executes command in a subshell

Upvotes: 2

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