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    • utilerU Offline
      utiler
      last edited by

      Thanks for the reply, Dana.
      I see you have an 'unhide all' botton in the toolset but what I was thinking was if I isolate selected entities I would like to then go back to what I had shown before I did so, not necessarily unhiding all.

      purpose/expression/purpose/....

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      • atelierpaarA Offline
        atelierpaar
        last edited by

        Hi there,
        This seems to be a great tool and i would like to test it.
        I try to figure out how to install "Vistools".
        After downloading and unpacking the zipfile SU responses with the following Error message :

        no such file to load-C/Programfiles (x86)/Google/GoogleSketchup8/Plugins/IntrepidBear/Vistools/VisTools.rb

        After checking the zip -file, I found that the folder "IntrepidBear" misses the subfolder "Vistools" as well as "VisTools.rb "
        Where ist the problem ?
        thanks for your help
        Uli


        121029 VisTool Error.jpg

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        • TIGT Offline
          TIG Moderator
          last edited by

          Usually it is you, "the user", who has managed to mess up a tool's download and installation... BUT in this case it is in no way your fault ! ๐Ÿ˜ฎ

          Something does indeed seem very awry ! ๐Ÿ˜ฒ

          Both the current download-able ZIP and RBZ versions on Dana's site contain an empty 'IntrepidBear' folder.
          This ought to contain a 'Vistools' subfolder, which in turn ought to have VisTools.rb and probably some other files in there too ๐Ÿ˜’

          I'm sure Dana can fix this... If you get no response/fix after a reasonable time - then nag him - perhaps by PM...

          TIG

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          • I Offline
            ishboo
            last edited by

            Sorry bout the broken download zip, I've fixed it.

            Had made the zip on the command line and apparently my settings only zipped the folders, doh!

            @utiler said:

            Thanks for the reply, Dana.
            I see you have an 'unhide all' botton in the toolset but what I was thinking was if I isolate selected entities I would like to then go back to what I had shown before I did so, not necessarily unhiding all.

            Gotya. Like an "undo" button? I could look into adding this, just not sure when I'd have the time to get around to it! ๐Ÿ˜•

            Could be added with some sort of "history" buffer...

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            • utilerU Offline
              utiler
              last edited by

              Thanks Dana, Look forward to seeing what you come up with. ๐Ÿ‘

              purpose/expression/purpose/....

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              • Dan RathbunD Offline
                Dan Rathbun
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                @simon le bon said:

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                @unknownuser said:

                Utilities](http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f) (renamed VisTools)":2wizqn62]Version 2.x is coming .....
                ... We are then gone back to the first post of this present thread ๐Ÿ˜‰

                Simon,
                I suppose you are asking the question "What happened to FreezeTools v2.0 ?"

                (1) FreezeTools must be thought of as an experimental code fork of the original, that was never released.

                (2) Some organizational ideas for the code were used by Dana in the VisTools v1.1 (or v1.0.1 ?) release.

                I am guessing that I had made the codebase for FreezeTools much too complex, in too many files. Again (guessing,) I think Dana did not have the time to test it, but needed to update the original, and decided to keep the update as simple as possible, still in one file, and include only the most important revisions, which were the name change to VisTools, and wrapping the code within his new IntrepidBear module namespace.

                And probably, that was the correct decision. (I think I got carried away, and broke the code up into far too many files. Also, I likely introduced too many changes all at once. It is better to do changes in smaller increments, for debugging, and just in case that "fork" must be rolled back if it does not work out.)

                But... since VisTools still needed an update to correct the multi-model situation on Mac, I said to myself,
                "Why waste the work I and others did creating the language strings for FreezeTools?"

                I still have all those language hash files, so I used the language strings, but in a slightly different way. (I no longer read the file as a hash literal into a string object, and then eval() it. I just let the interpreter use the language file via the load() method.)

                SO .... this really is where we should be.

                Version %(#000000)[1.2.0] is just a small incremental change that adds multi-model support, and loads localized language strings for the menus, toolbar, and tooltips.

                ๐Ÿค“

                I'm not here much anymore.

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                • Dan RathbunD Offline
                  Dan Rathbun
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                  Issue #15 - Feedback needed:

                  Should commands that change entity states (hide, show, isolate, unfreeze & freeze,) touch entities that are already on hidden layers?

                  Currently there is no test for this, and commands just change the states without testing if the entity is on a layer that is not displayed.

                  Should we:

                  (1) avoid changing entity states when the entity is already hidden by virtue of it's layer ?

                  or

                  (2) provide a toggle (both menu item and toolbar button,) to ignore hidden layers ?

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                  • Dan RathbunD Offline
                    Dan Rathbun
                    last edited by

                    Issue #13 - Feedback needed:

                    The hide_entities() and isolate_entities() commands can unexpectedly cause freezing.

                    If the entity is a group or component, and it is already locked, but not hidden, the above commands will cause freezing, by making them both hidden and locked. (Ie, there is no test to determine if the entity is a locked group or component.)

                    This may be unexpected by the user. A subsequent show_all command will not then make everything that was hidden become visible again.

                    Is this kind of freezing desired ?? ... or should these commands be changed to avoid causing freezing ?

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                    • Dan RathbunD Offline
                      Dan Rathbun
                      last edited by

                      Issue #12 - Feedback needed.

                      Should the show_all() command be separated into a show_all_layers() and show_all_groups_and_components() command ??

                      Reasoning: The layers are not tested for freezing (because they cannot be locked,) but the groups and components are tested for freezing.

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                      • Dan RathbunD Offline
                        Dan Rathbun
                        last edited by

                        Issue #11 - Feedback needed:

                        The command methods show_all() and unfreeze_all() only work upon the model level entities collection.

                        Should these instead iterate the definitions collection, and their instances collections, in order to act upon groups and components at ANY level, top or nested ??

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                        • I Offline
                          ishboo
                          last edited by

                          Dan, you're at it again ๐Ÿ˜‰

                          You're correct in guessing that I was daunted by your changes, I appreciate you're understanding and your time.

                          As you may have noticed, we've made the decision of closing down ExtendSketchUp and in turn I won't be doing any work on SketchUp plugins in the foreseeable future. Please feel free to use my code in any way you choose and I hope some of it becomes useful. Sorry to be disappearing but I don't use SketchUp much these days and don't feel I can adequately support any plugins at this time.

                          Cheers!

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                          • Dan RathbunD Offline
                            Dan Rathbun
                            last edited by

                            UPDATE v1.3.3

                            Added Asian language support:

                            • Chinese Simplified (zh-CN) language support by Xiao Long (guanjin)

                            • Other Asian language support files (preliminary):

                            • Chinese Traditional (zh-TW)

                            • Japanese (ja)

                            • Korean (ko)

                            THANK YOU to :

                            • Xiao Long (guanjin)

                            Chinese Simplified (zh-CN) language file.

                            Pushed update into a forked GitHub online repository at:
                            https://github.com/DanRathbun/sketchup-vistools

                            ๐Ÿค“

                            Feedback via: https://github.com/DanRathbun/sketchup-vistools/issues

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                            • Dan RathbunD Offline
                              Dan Rathbun
                              last edited by

                              UPDATE v1.3.2

                              Pushed update into a forked GitHub online repository at:
                              https://github.com/DanRathbun/sketchup-vistools

                              ๐Ÿค“

                              Feedback via: https://github.com/DanRathbun/sketchup-vistools/issues

                              I'm not here much anymore.

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                              • Dan RathbunD Offline
                                Dan Rathbun
                                last edited by

                                [Plugin] VisTools v1.2.1 ready for testing

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                                • Dan RathbunD Offline
                                  Dan Rathbun
                                  last edited by

                                  [Plugin] VisTools v1.2.0 ready for testing

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                                  • Dan RathbunD Offline
                                    Dan Rathbun
                                    last edited by

                                    [Plugin] VisTools v1.3.0 ready for testing

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                                    • Dan RathbunD Offline
                                      Dan Rathbun
                                      last edited by

                                      Issue: Toolbar button ordinal positions

                                      ADD: Issue filed for milestone 1.3.1, and fix has been done.

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                                      • Dan RathbunD Offline
                                        Dan Rathbun
                                        last edited by

                                        UPDATE v1.3.1

                                        Pushed update into a forked GitHub online repository at:
                                        https://github.com/DanRathbun/sketchup-vistools

                                        ๐Ÿค“

                                        Feedback via: https://github.com/DanRathbun/sketchup-vistools/issues

                                        I'm not here much anymore.

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                                        • R Offline
                                          risoto1978
                                          last edited by

                                          Hi ishboo, the plugin is great but unfortunately "isolate selected layers", "isolate selected entities" and "freeze" and "unfreeze" does work."Hide selected layers" and "show all layers and entities" work perfectly. I formerly used the hide tool within the SCF selector toolbar but unfortunately this toolbar is not available fro SU 2014. I work with SU 2014. Can you help?

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                                          • Dan RathbunD Offline
                                            Dan Rathbun
                                            last edited by

                                            This has not been tested under SU2013 nor SU2014.

                                            WHAT commands DO NOT work ????

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