SketchUp 8 M3 - No More Menu Greyout!

[thomthom]

See announcement at the SketchUp blog: http://sketchupdate.blogspot.com/2012/05/announcing-sketchup-8-m3.html

No more menu greyout!

[Rich O Brien]

[jhauswirth]

How 'bout them working menu items!?!?

[thomthom]

@jhauswirth said:

How 'bout them working menu items!?!?

There'll be a lot of people that would kiss you lot right now if they could grab hold of you.

I don't really suffer from it, but as a developer who has to deal with support request: thank you very VERY much!

[Dave R]

Excellent!

[tony bombata]

time to unpack my suspended plugins

[EarthMover]

Nothing has soured my taste for this software more than the greyed menu issue. This is the best news of the year!!!!

[sonder]

Little glitch for us Wacom Tablet users - eraser no longer works.

[thomthom]

@unknownuser said:

Little glitch for us Wacom Tablet users - eraser no longer works.

hmm... haven't noticed that...
Will check tomorrow when I'm back at office.

[brodie]

What's this gray out issue? I'd never heard of or ran into that.

-Brodie

[Rich O Brien]

It's where having too many plugins caused certain elements in the right click menu to become greyed-out(unusable)

Well, maybe not too many plugins but there was some issue within SU that meant if too many plugins were called to use the context menu then other items got greyed out.

Anyway it's fixed now so those who have a need to install everything no longer suffer this issue (unless your Pilou and still use v6 )

There's also some fixes for the ruby devs that mean less workarounds and bugsplats related to things called observers.

[sonder]

@thomthom said:

@unknownuser said:

Little glitch for us Wacom Tablet users - eraser no longer works.

hmm... haven't noticed that...
Will check tomorrow when I'm back at office.

I should clarify - eraser no longer works by simply flipping the pen.

[thomthom]

@rich o brien said:

(unless your Pilou and still use v6 )

Time to upgrade! And that goes for your IE6 as well! I can see you hiding it!!

[JClements]

What is the build number of the M3 download?

[Dan Rathbun]

@jclements said:

What is the build number of the M3 download?

English Windows is: 14346

[Dan Rathbun]

@jhauswirth said:

How 'bout them working menu items!?!?

Yes.. and I am quite sure the Mac users (and Developers,) will be happy that you attended to the Entities.add_group() slowdown issue.

Thanx for jumpin' on that John !!

[Krisidious]

[john2]

any way we get instant email notification the moment a maintenance is released?

[thomthom]

@krisidious said:

[thomthom]

@john2 said:

any way we get instant email notification the moment a maintenance is released?

Subscribe to their blog - more than just announcement, but you won't be missing out.
Then again - the announcement appear very quickly here as well...