[Plugin] FullScreen v5.1.3 (25 April 2024)

Anton_S · 30 Jan 2012, 09:55

Showcase
New UI based on React and Material UI with light and dark themes.

Features

Click-and-drag UI by caption
Expand/collapse by clicking the caret at the upper-left corner
Snap UI to the edges of the viewport window (e.g by dragging to one of the view border)
Fade and unfade effects. If no cursor is present in the UI, the UI fades out - becomes semi-transparent.
Switching full screen now has 3 modes:
- Primary: set full screen on main monitor
- Associated: set full screen on the monitor the sketchup window is associated with
- All: set full screen on all monitors by computing the bounding box all monitors and using that box as the new dimensions of the window.

Requirements

SU2016 - SU2024 (tested on SU2024) Note: on SU2023 and later, the features are limited because SketchUp changed to a new, Qt-based framework, which I cannot hack
Windows operating system only! This will not work with Mac OS X.

Download
FullScreen can be installed via the SketchUcationTools extension or manually, from Plugin Store .

You can also download at Google Drive

Gaieus · 30 Jan 2012, 10:59

Wow...

Some notes (using Windows XP on this machine):

First I was confused until I figured that

hiding the toolbars hides floatingtoolbars
and hiding the control bars hides the parts of the SU window where the dockedtoolbars are.

There is already a menu item under Window > "Hide dialogs/Show dialogs" - so your "Child windows" option here is a redundant duplicate.
When I hide the status bar, any VCB entry still works. This is a pretty good function!
All in all, a very useful plugin - especially (for me) the "control bars" hiding function. Thank you very much!

I have long wished to be able to hide my (what is here called) "control bars" so that when making tutorial videos or teaching SU online, they do not confuse and scare away beginners.

Rich O Brien · 30 Jan 2012, 11:09

Doesn't work on my Win7 64bit. Only Child Windows will toggle. I got toolbar chaos on install.

Nice concept though

Gaieus · 30 Jan 2012, 11:15

@unknownuser said:

Doesn't work on my Win7 64bit.

Too bad. Hopefully it can be fixed (as it works on my 32 bit XP). My laptop (with, of course, a much smaller screen where I could use it better than on my 22" desktop monitor) is 64 bit Win 7.

Would there be a possibility to (instead of having a separate menu item to show and display the different elements) toggle them on/off? This would also allow to assign a single shortcut instead of two, different ones.

Gaieus · 30 Jan 2012, 12:37

This is better than I thought. Here is what I did:

Hid the control bar (with the docked toolbars - I only have them on the top in several rows)
resized my window to extremely narrow (all toolbars by now would have been cluttered) - even narrower than my widest toolbar is - in fact, even the menu jumped into two rows now
resized my window back to a safe width (where all my toolbars can fit)
unhid my control bar and nothing was cluttered!

Thank you again - and really hope that those compatibility issues can be solved!

Anton_S · 30 Jan 2012, 20:32

@unknownuser said:

Doesn't work on my Win7 64bit. Only Child Windows will toggle. I got toolbar chaos on install.

Nice concept though

Yes, I knew it didn't work on win7 64 bit... Tested on my brothers laptop. I'm gonna mess with his laptop for a while and figure out a way.

Rich O Brien · 30 Jan 2012, 20:38

That'd be great

Vicspa · 30 Jan 2012, 20:56

Yeah, that'd be great, thanks

Anton_S · 30 Jan 2012, 21:08

@gaieus said:

There is already a menu item under Window > "Hide dialogs/Show dialogs" - so your "Child windows" option here is a redundant duplicate.

No, its not. The "hide dialogs" hides windows such as entity info, model info, soften smooth edges, but doesn't hides ruby console, photo textures, component options, and other child windows with a certain class that could be hidden.

@gaieus said:

Would there be a possibility to (instead of having a separate menu item to show and display the different elements) toggle them on/off? This would also allow to assign a single shortcut instead of two, different ones.

It depends. Lets, say we have a "status_bar" option toggled. Checked: visible and Unchecked: hidden. And something happens: The user hides the status_bar using the other script. How would "status_bar" option know whatever it should be checked or unchecked? - Well, use set_validation_proc and let it ask every frame whatever the status_bar is hidden or not. I could make it like that, thought it will slow down sketchup:
@dan said:

Menu.set_validation_proc
Arguments:

menu_id: The id of a menu item on this menu. (The id is returned from the add_item method.)
block_proc: a block or proc object that will be invoked by Sketchup went it redraws the UI. (Complex conditionals and calling many other methods can slow down Sketchup!)

I could make it toggable, but its ur option: yes or no

Gaieus · 30 Jan 2012, 21:43

@anton_s said:

No, its not. The "hide dialogs" hides windows such as entity info, model info, soften smooth edges, but doesn't hides ruby console, photo textures, component options, and other child windows with a certain class that could be hidden.

Okay, point taken (and I do understand this).

@anton_s said:

It depends. Lets, say we have a "status_bar" option toggled. Checked: visible and Unchecked: hidden. And something happens: The user hides the status_bar using the other script. How would "status_bar" option know whatever it should be checked or unchecked? - Well, use set_validation_proc and let it ask every frame whatever the status_bar is hidden or not. I could make it like that, thought it will slow down sketchup:

Point also taken (although I do not understand this)

Anyway, great plugin. Thanks a lot again!

I (mainly) use it to hide my "control bars" - although from now on, I may also have some (less frequently used) toolbars also open (or hidden this way).

And of course for my 64 bit, Win 7 laptop, the (hopefully easily) updated version will also be welcome!

Aerilius · 30 Jan 2012, 23:49

I've been waiting to hide the menu bar (no joke). Thank you!

Anton_S · 31 Jan 2012, 04:13

@anton_s said:

use set_validation_proc and let it ask every frame whatever the status_bar is hidden or not. I could make it like that, thought it will slow down sketchup

Have to take my thought back. I thought that set_validation_proc updates every frame, but it only updates once you entered the submenu that contains that item. So, yes I'll modify it to be toggled, including make it work on windows 7 64 bit.

Thankyou for your replies!! They make me

derei · 31 Jan 2012, 12:08

What exactly this plugin does? From Rich O'Brien's post (http://forums.sketchucation.com/download/file.php?id=81834&mode=view ) I understand that it doesn't work... so let me rephrase: what this plugin SHOULD do?
Thank you very much.

P.S. - when posting plugins, it would be nice to add a image/animated GIF/movie to visually exemplify what the plugin does, if possible. Some users are already doing this, but I think it should be implemented as a "must" rule, for everybody.

thomthom · 31 Jan 2012, 12:15

@unknownuser said:

I understand that it doesn't work...
...on his system. For Gaieus it worked.

Aerilius · 31 Jan 2012, 12:18

This plugin allows to turn off (or on) certain elements of the SketchUp interface. Something that wasn't possible before. For example someone has no need for a statusbar, or to make SketchUp fullscreen for a presentation. Maybe Anton can make a little gif animation for the first post (or I could do one).