[Questions Plugins] Hide Groups / inactive components

TIG

It's built in - choose one or both of these options It's a 'toggle' on/off...
It shows my own shortcuts...

DIEGO-RODRIGUEZ

if tig, use this option much.
but I meant to hide groups / components are inside the group / active component in which I work.
the option you mentioned, it hides the remainder of model that is outside the group or active componet I'm working on

TIG

@diego-rodriguez said:

if tig, use this option much.
But I meant to hide groups / components are inside the group / active component in which I work.
The option you mentioned, it hides the remainder of model that is outside the group or active component I'm working on

Understood!
You need a hide_everything else tool.
There are already some tools to invert the selection and then hide selected...
You then do you edit and on completion unhide the rest ?

DIEGO-RODRIGUEZ

Chris Fullmer

This is also David_H's #1 feature request, if that matters......

TIG

I have a half-baked version that should work if the InstanceObserver wasn't [currently] broken in v8 [was OK in v6!]...
We await an update to the Observers...

thomthom

@tig said:

I have a half-baked version that should work if the InstanceObserver wasn't [currently] broken in v8 [was OK in v6!]...
We await an update to the Observers...

What's broken?
I had problems in earlier versions...

TIG

The onOpen() and onClose() methods don't trigger for me in v8 - try the API example.

thomthom

They do for me - I had problems in earlier versions - at least SU7.x.
http://www.thomthom.net/software/sketchup/observers/

I do now see I noted that in SU8 there's been reports that the observer might bugsplat when closing SU - though I think there are certain conditions for this...

TIG

I have a tool that adds an instance of the observer to every instance of every definition [it also tries to remove them first in case they already have them] - I know it's adding as it returns a message in the console as it does it.... BUT then when I open a group/instance it does NOT return a value at all! [e.g. puts instance] - this is on PC not OSX...

thomthom

But with the bare bone example in the API - which you refereed to - does that work for you?

@tig said:

I have a tool that adds an instance of the observer to every instance of every definition

Would it not be easier to use the ModelObserver for this? http://code.google.com/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/modelobserver.html#onActivePathChanged

TIG

Perhaps.
My InstanceObserver is only half-working - perhaps my code is flaky ?
Watch this space...

TIG

I now have it working properly - I'll post something asap...

TIG

Here it is http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=280618#p280618

david_h

oh yeah baby!!! I can't wait for this one!