Crazy problem with Right Click
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interesting turn of events..
i've read a lot of these right-click posts and thought they were something to do with windows because i've never experienced the problem or heard of another mac user with the problem.
sounds like it should affect mac users as well then.. maybe none of the mac users here have the trouble ruby installed?
must be one of those windows specific exporters or something?[edit] hmm.. well, except for the fact that it's been reproducible without using plugins at all
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@unknownuser said:
[edit] hmm.. well, except for the fact that it's been reproducible without using plugins at all
By right clicking repeatedly on geometry without cancelling the menu. But the menus then usually returns ones you cancel it.
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@thomthom said:
@unknownuser said:
[edit] hmm.. well, except for the fact that it's been reproducible without using plugins at all
By right clicking repeatedly on geometry without cancelling the menu. But the menus then usually returns ones you cancel it.
i shit you not, i just tried rightclicking on a square at least 800 times
.. no glitches
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@unknownuser said:
i shit you not, i just tried rightclicking on a square at least 800 times
.. no glitches
Did you right click
and then while the menu was still open right click again?
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Here's a little hack I made. It intercepts all the setter methods and prints the arguments to the console. Named "_0.rb" to make it load first. (or does underscore make it load last...?)
For some reason it is not overriding the
initialize
method.But I do intercept the setter methods. On my home machine I get some output every time I right click:
tooltip: Scaling with orientation of scaling box tooltip: Tapering with orientation of scaling box tooltip: Planar Shearing with orientation of scaling box tooltip: Planar Shearing by selection of plane and angle tooltip: Stretching with orientation of scaling box tooltip: Twisting with orientation of scaling box tooltip: Rotation with orientation of scaling box tooltip: Rotation by selection of plane and angle tooltip: Radial Bending by selection of plane and angle tooltip: Make Groups and Components Unique
And when I do this line for every right click:
c=[]; ObjectSpace.each_object(UI::Command) {|x| c << x }
the count goes up by 10 - one for each tooptip.So in my case, even though I'm not catching the new method, it does appear that I've accounted for every leak. There might be other plugins that does not set any other methods when it creates a new Command object, so I'm not sure how to catch that since I can't hook into
initialize
.As for the tooltips, they are from FredoScale, right?
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yes..
drew a rectangle then started right-clicking repeatedly on its face.. (didn't do anything else other than those two steps.. no left-clicking,selecting, or moving the mouse pointer etc.)
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@unknownuser said:
yes..
drew a rectangle then started right-clicking repeatedly on its face.. (didn't do anything else other than those two steps.. no left-clicking,selecting, or moving the mouse pointer)
You must be charmed.
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@thomthom said:
You must be charmed.
ha..
but like i said earlier, i've never seen a mac user state this problem.. maybe this is one area where windows and osx are different with SU? -
Ah, you're on an apple. So you said. And so it says in your profile.
It's late. G'night! -
I've been able to reproduce my right click issues with consistency. I've narrowed down the problem to exploding groups and it seems to occur when I use my keyboard shortcut specifically.
If someone could try and reproduce my results -
- Open new sketchup
- Make a Box
- Use keyboard shortcut to make the box a group
- Use keyboard shortcut to explode box
- Repeat step 3 & 4 - 15 times
- Check the right click menu during 5 more group & explodes
I've tested the above 5 times in new SU sessions and everytime I get the same results. Right click menu goes gray between 15-20 group & explodes via keyboard shortcut.
Interestingly I also tested doing 20 right click group and explodes and the menu didn't gray out, however after doing just one group and explode with the keyboard shortcut, my menu immediately went gray.
Test with Shortcuts - http://www.screencast.com/t/MTVkNDBi
Test with Right click Group & Explode - http://www.screencast.com/t/ZDFiMDRmM -
@jhauswirth said:
The problem is Ruby scripts are calling-
UI::Command.new
and not attaching the new command to a menu item.Correct, we are not typically attaching Commands to menus because
Menu.add_item
will accept a block of code as well as a Command. So unless a Toolbar is also being created, it is typical to just pass the name of a method to Menu.add_item:def method_name # do sometrhing end menu = UI.menu.add_item("Menu Text") { method_name }
When a Toolbar is being used, we are required to create a Command becuase Toolbar.add_item only accepts a Command. So when there is a Toolbar already being used, it is easy to add the same Command to a menu since it is already created.
I think it is also not typical to create a new Command when adding a context menu. Are we sure SketchUp (Ruby) is not promoting code blocks into Commands? (Is that even possible?
)
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@unknownuser said:
interesting turn of events..
i've read a lot of these right-click posts and thought they were something to do with windows because i've never experienced the problem or heard of another mac user with the problem.
sounds like it should affect mac users as well then.. maybe none of the mac users here have the trouble ruby installed?
must be one of those windows specific exporters or something?[edit] hmm.. well, except for the fact that it's been reproducible without using plugins at all
There was another bug regarding recycling menu IDs. This was caused by the app not being able to execute OnIdle because the context menu was constantly being popped up. I didn't mention this issue because once OnIdle got a chance to do its business all the menu items came back to life. All the issues I've seen would be Windows only.
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I have a ton of Ruby scripts installed and the only one I see creating new command IDs is-
ZLoader__FredoScale.rbie- FredoScale
If anyone that is having menu troubles and has this script, can you try removing the script and see if it helps?
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@jhauswirth said:
I have a ton of Ruby scripts installed and the only one I see creating new command IDs is-
ZLoader__FredoScale.rbie- FredoScale
If anyone that is having menu troubles and has this script, can you try removing the script and see if it helps?
After I disable it from under Extensions and restart SU, then the
UI::Command
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That was when I right clicked on a component.
It occured to me to try different entities, as plugins add different items depending on what's right clicked.
When I right click components things are fine.
So are Faces.
But edges are showing an increase in one Command per right click. -
My Selection Toys plugin uses my TT_Lib library. It has a Menu and Toolbar manager which let the user turn on and off UI items. It uses UI::Command for all items.
However, it does not make the UI:Command instance count increase upon each right click.I create a cached list of UI:Command object upon loading the script, and the context menus are being fed these every time it needs.
So do I understand this correct that creating UI::Commands within the context menu handler is bad?
But creating the UI::Command objects before and storing in a variable for reuse is ok?UI::Command objects are never garbage collected?
And the limit is fixed exactly at 1000?
But this is something that occurs on Windows? Does it not occur on OSX because the UI::Command objects are released, or because it does not have this limit?I also then would imagine that Tools with custom menu also works like this.
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And does this mean there is a upper limit to the amount of menus?
Say if we use only menus without the UI::Command object, will that trigger this bug?
Will a large amount of toolbar buttons cause this? Even if the toolbars are off? -
I just observed that the UI::Command instance count go down during a session:
@unknownuser said:
stats
150
stats
144The first one when I started SU.
I checked again later after doing some work.So there does appear to be cases when they are released.
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A breakthrough at last !
If I disable just FredoScale then I canβt get the "gray-out" to occur, no matter how much I try...
Looking at the associated scripts uncovers a lot of complexity and convolution... for example
MYPLUGIN.declare_context_handler_long(scmd, menu, ttip, tc, nil, submenu) { FredoScale.launch code, βTβ }
uses a Lib6Plugin βdeclare_context_handler_longβ that perhaps makes new commands whenever the context is right - i.e. you have selected something that matches ?
It runs tpc = Traductor_Plugin_Command.new
This uses
Traductor_Plugin_Command = Struct.new "Traductor_Plugin_Command", :symb, :proc, :menutext, :icon, :ttip, :valproc, :test_cond, :separator, :submenu, :state, :cmd
etc etcPerhaps we need to get Fredo directly involved in this as his tool certainly seems to be one of βthe culpritsβ ?
It should be possible to recast how this tool works to avoid this problem...PS: I have tried disabling his other tools with FredoScale active and that has no effect - so it is something about FredoScale and making cmds...
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TIG:
def stats c=[] ObjectSpace.each_object(UI;;Command) {|x| c << x } sprintf("UI;Command objects; %d of 1000 (%.2f%%)", c.length, (c.length / 1000.0) * 100) end
Use this to query how many UI::Command objects exists. If you type
stats
during your modelling session you can see it change.@tig said:
Perhaps we need to get Fredo directly involved in this as his tool certainly seems to be one of βthe culpritsβ ?
It should be possible to recast how this tool works to avoid this problem...I sent Fredo a PM last night. He had already been informed by Google then. So he's looking into it.
@tig said:
PS: I have tried disabling his other tools with FredoScale active and that has no effect - so it is something about FredoScale and making cmds...
Do you have ToolsOnSurface? I found that if I click an Edge it would add one
UI::Command
instance.
Plugins doesn't always show their menus unless the conditions are right. LikeGenerate Faces
that appear only when selecting an Edge. So we won't know for sure which plugins are affected until all the situations are tested.My current list is:
- Fredoscale - 10 instances per right-click
- ToolsOnSurface - 1 instance per right-click on Edge
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