[Plugin] LaunchIt v 1.4 (14 oct 2009)

remus

Really cool idea, just going to try it out now

remus

Hmmm, im not getting the web dialog popping up...

Jim

Cool idea. I have been thinking that Chris Glasier's scene machine dialog would make a good replacement for the Plugins menu, too.

gavvy

oh no
i have get an error ,i can't lunch it

error code Display this

Error: #<NoMethodError: undefined method visible?' for nil:NilClass> j:/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/A4_launchit.rb:73:in launch_it'
j:/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/A4_launchit.rb:109
j:/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/A4_launchit.rb:109:in `call'

gavvy

I have look at your ruby script ,

and now i want to add some scripts to get funcitons form a command txt files

Good job

a4chitect

gavvy thanks for letting me know, I have changed the script - so hopefully the mentioned error is gone now.

gavvy

a4chitect

i have null serieal lines
def launch_it

if($launchitdlg.visible?)

$launchitdlg.close

return false

end

#puts $launchitcmd

#$launchitcmd.uniq!# FF_whatis the usage????? FF_nul


functionlist = "var functionlist = Array("
functionaction = "var functionaction = Array("

I just NULL it AND IT work WELL

gavvy

here is the change of mine !

I add these to change the command list easy ,but is there any ways to read the command listfile directly?

AND the attachment is the plugin-GUI I changed

Ps: I think doubleKlick is better than oneclick

#命令入堆
@Cpath = File.dirname(FILE)
@Cbarset = Set.new
Ctbs = Dir[@Cpath +"/A4_launchit"+ "/*.txt"]

Ctbs.each do |tb|
IO.readlines(tb).each do |cmd|
next if cmd[0, 1] == "#"
#cmd, cmt = cmd.split("#")
next if cmd.nil?
cmd.strip!
@Cbarset = @Cbarset.insert cmd

	@Cbarset.each do |ca|
		$launchitcmd.push ca.split("|")[0..1]
	end
end

end

a4chitect

great stuff! it's cleaner to have commands in a separate txt. I suggest you share your whole script (as a branch?)

Does anybody have experience with online code hosting ? like code.google.com ? Is there a branching feature to allow deviation from the main code ?

Regarding your question about automatic command extraction, I think this could be done by using the IO.readline to read all plugins and look for the lines which populate the menu and context (right-click) menu.

As I wrote in the first post, look for the

.add_item("

 string in all the rubies, after the double quote, there usually is a command name, and the action

tbd

nice work a4chitect and thanks for putting my scripts as an example

I like github.com for hosting source and allows forking and if you want to learn about check the online book about Git

a4chitect

tbd: you're welcome. will look into the github, thx

stanmarsh

hello a4rchitect,

i was just thinking if this could combine and work with pluginloader by alexschreyer to load plugins, then use launchit as the front-end.
pluginloader link
http://www.alexschreyer.net/projects/plugin-loader-for-sketchup/

remus

Added a load of plugins but only one ever shows up by adding the

if(defined? $launchitcmd == nil)
   $launchitcmd = []
end

$launchitcmd.push ["Command name","Command action"]

Bit, but only one ever shows up.

seems to be in alphabetical order, so weld.rb was the only one that would load, moved out of the folder then it was webconsole.rb and so on.

Any ideas?

Jim

@a4chitect said:

tbd: you're welcome. will look into the github, thx

don't let this stop you from working on the plugin. Distributed version control software is nice, but can have a lengthy learning curve (my experience, at least.) If you're in it for the long haul, then learning to use git or mercurial is well worth the effort. If this is an occasional endeavor - maybe not so much.

Jim

I was playing around with speech, and this could turn out to be a good interface for voice command control of SketchUp. It's not quite working - I can speak the word and it gets typed in the filter box, but for whatever reason the list is not filtered.

jeff hammond

doesn't seem to work on macs too well but...

this is built into OS X (it's not SU specific.. all apps have this ability)

same deal, start typing some letters and all the options start popping up etc.. if you hover over a command for a second, it's path will be shown as well.. skindigo, fredo, etc works fine too..

it's also sort of smart in that it won't display commands that aren't possible at the time (for instance, redo won't show up in the search if there's nothing to redo)

i don't have anything to test it with but i'm almost positive voice cmmd will work.

[flash=640,385:3v2nt73s]http://www.youtube.com/v/1HBmYx3w3W0&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x2b405b&color2=0x6b8ab6[/flash:3v2nt73s]

i'll add this.. it's a cool feature but the only time i use it is for obscure commands or when learning a new app.. once you know an app, shortcut keys are way better..

a4chitect

Jim: I suppose that using speech for input doesn't trigger the OnKey event in the javascript - to perform the search

Jeff: I envy you - because the built-in OS X functionality looks great. The whole purpose and idea of launchit was, that my plugins menu won't fit on the screen anymore, and gets 'randomized' very often - because of new plugin installations. I agree that using keyboard shortcuts is way better. I think that Google should consider integrating the shortcut preferences into the GUI. It provides the functionality of searching for commands already, but serves only to assign shortcuts.

Jim

How's the git repo coming?

a4chitect

Jim: I gave up on git or any other code repos for the time being. This plugin would probably not get developed by anyone else

Jim

@a4chitect said:

Jim: I gave up on git or any other code repos for the time being. This plugin would probably not get developed by anyone else

I can understand. But I did actually want to look at this as the menu for a "Protable Plugins" project to create a plugins folder people can carry with them on a portable device.