[Plugin] Selection Toys
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I find Norway to be a poor beer country. Hard to come by a pub/bar that sells any interesting beer types. Normally they all serve the same three brands.
I was spoiled while I lived in England. But I have my sources. 
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I suppose you are right. When we were doing the Coastal Steamer cruise in 2000, there were some other Americans whose main reason for the cruise was to drink as much beer in as many pubs/bars as they could and they'd bring back the glasses. I think brought home more glass than clothes. Even if the ship was in a port for 30 minutes, they'd be off to find a pub.
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I prefer to actually be in a state where I enjoy my beer. Never been a fan of pumping down the drinks as quickly as possible.
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Me, too. Wisconsin is a pretty good state in which to enjoy beer. So is Minnesota and Maine and...
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@unknownuser said:
However, if you do enable it, be aware you might suffer toolbar madness - there is nothing I can do about that. I warned yee!
can't you (not you personally ,but generally) load a toolbar floating to avoid this?
anyway the point of my post is to say thanks again and also i have a small request. could you make your toolbar so it can also be placed vertically above the... well look at the picture and save me typing a thousand words:
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@xrok1 said:
can't you (not you personally ,but generally) load a toolbar floating to avoid this?
Afraid not, we have very little control over the toolbars. We can create them, add items, and hide/show them. Nothing we can do to move it around.
What's more annoying is that just creating it, but not showing it is enough to make stuff shuffle around.@xrok1 said:
anyway the point of my post is to say thanks again and also i have a small request. could you make your toolbar so it can also be placed vertically above the... well look at the picture and save me typing a thousand words:
If you resize the toolbar into a vertical size before you dock it then it should take on the same shape.
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thomas: respect! the UI is very effective yet simple - a beauty
and of course - I like the plugin itself too
thanks for this precious piece
p.s. I wonder if you would allow me to re-use some of your webdialog design elements (css, buttons, etc.) in my own plugins?
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@a4chitect said:
p.s. I wonder if you would allow me to re-use some of your webdialog design elements (css, buttons, etc.) in my own plugins?
Yes.
I've tried to make it so the UI controls's styles are based on class names. So for buttons you assign a class="button" to the HTML element. Something I was planning on mentioning in the Plugin Manager SDK. I'll be using PM to build up a library of different HTML UI controls.
In the CSS folder of PM you'll also find a window.css file, which is using windows system colours. Though, it's old as I moved away from trying to emulate windows. -
thanks! if more ruby authors adopt this we could get a nice consistent UI across many plugins - looking forward to the future (and of course custom .css creating = "skins" for all the plugins at once)
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@a4chitect said:
thanks! if more ruby authors adopt this we could get a nice consistent UI across many plugins - looking forward to the future (and of course custom .css creating = "skins" for all the plugins at once)
Yes, I've been thinking about allowing the user to select UI themes, and toolbar themes. Though it did not make it into this release.
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A on screen UI (Fredo style), sounds nice.
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V2.0 is spanking! Tom this is an amazingly useful tool probably my favourite in terms of how it is implemented. A lot of thought have gone into the user interface. Thanks! I can't believe it is free.
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@unknownuser said:
If you resize the toolbar into a vertical size before you dock it then it should take on the same shape.
worked like a charm, thanks again.
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Wow TT. Very cool and very kind of you. Big Thanks for all your hard work!
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have you considered adding selection sets to your tool!
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@xrok1 said:
have you considered adding selection sets to your tool!
Maybe. Could you describe how you'd be using it? This probably can be implemented in various way - be nice to hear what people prefer.
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JClements gave me an idea today:
This will actually be a feature of Plugin Manager as it's automatically generated by the UI Manager.
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i think a good example of the need for selection sets would be perimeter of a room, opening in a sphere, all end walls in a dormer... anything that is difficult to select because of tight spaces or geometry behind it... there's nothing worse than spending minutes making a selection then loosing it and needing to start over, or doing an operation on a complicated selection then needing to tweak it later.
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I could see it going a few ways, but one would be to have it set up like the undo stack. But it doesn't remember every different selection. Only ones you add to it. So you would have a shortcut key to add the current selection into the selection stack. And a shortcut key to work backwards through the selection stack.
Example.
Make an important selection
Hit F5 to add the current selection to the stack.
repeat as needed.
Hit F6 to work backwards through the selection stack
Hit F7 to move forwards through the selection stack.That could be quite useful.
I also am thinking of other apps that make named lists, and you have to save and recall the selection through the list of named sets. But that seems difficult in SU to me I think. But maybe it would work. I supposed the list could be in a html dialog box and warn you if your selection set has changed wince it was created. And give the option to update the selection set, etc.
Just some thoughts.
Plus, I think TIG or Rick maybe has a selection memmory plugin already? I wonder how their's works. Maybe I should check it out.
Chris
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i use rickw's selectionmemory and it's sweet.. i use the free version but he also has a premium version which allows for different sets.
with the version i use, i can make selections and save them, add to them, and recall or clear..
perfect for me but if you'd like the ability to have multiple sets, get the premium.i also vaguely remember trying one a few years ago which had a toolbar/icons.. i'm pretty sure jim wrote it?
[edit] yeah, jim foltz has one available too (free).. this one has the option to deselect from the memory set as well..
http://sketchuptips.blogspot.com/2008/01/plugin-selection-memory.html
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