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    • Dave RD Offline
      Dave R
      last edited by

      I would find that very useful, too.

      As to the keyboard shortcuts, there is a plugin. I'll see if I can find it although someone else will probably beat me to it.

      Edit to add: I found Shortcuts. It'll put the shortcuts into a window which can be copied and pasted into a document. http://rhin.crai.archi.fr/RubyLibraryDepot/plugin_details.php?id=373

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      • J Offline
        Jim
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        Windows has an on-screen keyboard, but at least in XP, it does not show the key being pressed.

        I haven't had a chance to use it much, but ShowOff looks good:
        http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Skrommel/index.html#ShowOff

        The guy has a whole bunch of small utilities that you might also find useful.

        Martin wrote a plugin to show your shortcut keys:
        http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=23093

        I have one also which I can post in the plugins forum.

        Hi

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        • Rich O BrienR Offline
          Rich O Brien Moderator
          last edited by

          Thanks for all the links guys, much appreciated... πŸ‘

          But Showoff isn't exactly what i need. Maybe this can explain better than my earlier ramblings...

          Click to enlarge....

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          • Dave RD Offline
            Dave R
            last edited by

            Rich, that's an interesting idea. I can see some good uses for that.

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            • TIGT Offline
              TIG Moderator
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              Paste this into the Ruby Console

              puts Sketchup.get_shortcuts.sort
              

              to make a sorted list.
              To write the sorted list to a file you can change it to

              file=Sketchup.find_support_file('')+"/ShortCuts.txt";f=File.new(file,"w");f.puts(Sketchup.get_shortcuts.sort);f.close
              
              

              this makes a file called 'ShortCuts.txt' in the current 'Sketchup' program folder.

              TIG

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              • Rich O BrienR Offline
                Rich O Brien Moderator
                last edited by

                Thanks TIG πŸ‘

                Is the OnScreen Rolling Reel possible?

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                • TIGT Offline
                  TIG Moderator
                  last edited by

                  Yes...
                  You'd make a piece of screen-text [say 6 lines long] in one corner, that has an observer and when you change your current tool it recalculates the text - avoiding duplicating the current one if you are doing lots of moves for example.
                  Adds a new top one and removes the last one in the list - it looks up the shortcut key for each tool listed [if any] and adds that to the tool's name as you suggest and adds it IF it has a shortcut...
                  πŸ€“
                  However, I can't see a big take up for this tool... so I won't be coding it any time soon... 😞

                  TIG

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                  • Rich O BrienR Offline
                    Rich O Brien Moderator
                    last edited by

                    Thanks for explaining that it's possible. It's more than enough what you provided earlier for sending the shortcuts to .txt. Maybe someday I'll dive into ruby but as you mention not 'any time soon'.

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                    • EarthMoverE Offline
                      EarthMover
                      last edited by

                      Great idea for this. I think is would be useful if you could save them into a macro (action) command and rerun multiple commands in a single click to help speed up repetitive functions.

                      3D Artist at Clearstory 3D Imaging
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                      • Rich O BrienR Offline
                        Rich O Brien Moderator
                        last edited by

                        Awash with memories..... 😐

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                        • TIGT Offline
                          TIG Moderator
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                          The impossible I can usually do straight away... BUT miracles take a little longer - there's a looooong queue for those πŸ˜’

                          TIG

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                          • cottyC Offline
                            cotty
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                            @tig said:

                            Yes...
                            You'd make a piece of screen-text [say 6 lines long] in one corner, that has an observer and when you change your current tool it recalculates the text - avoiding duplicating the current one if you are doing lots of moves for example.
                            Adds a new top one and removes the last one in the list - it looks up the shortcut key for each tool listed [if any] and adds that to the tool's name as you suggest and adds it IF it has a shortcut...
                            πŸ€“
                            However, I can't see a big take up for this tool... so I won't be coding it any time soon... 😞

                            I think I have read about a plugin like this recently but I am not able to find it anymore (perhaps wrong search words...). Does anyone know this plugin? It will be helpful for video tutorials...
                            Thanks,
                            Cotty

                            my SketchUp gallery

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                            • Rich O BrienR Offline
                              Rich O Brien Moderator
                              last edited by

                              Onscreen rolling Reel

                              Search the index for plugin by Rich O'Brien

                              Download the free D'oh Book for SketchUp πŸ“–

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                              • cottyC Offline
                                cotty
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                                @unknownuser said:

                                Onscreen rolling Reel

                                Search the index for plugin by Rich O'Brien

                                Thank you very much, I found it here. I searched osd, onscreen, ... but not "on screen" before πŸ˜’

                                my SketchUp gallery

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                                  driven
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                                  .../Plugins/shortcuts.rb - makes and pops up a web page showing your keyboard shortcuts

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                                  this one work ok... john

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