Change in behavior of inferences

[dmorong]

I noticed that with the latest update it no longer shows the little yellow post-it when you get an inference, Endpoint, On Face, Perpendicular to Edge, etc. They are still in the free version but gone from Pro. I teach a lot of beginners on Pro systems, so they were useful for that. Is it just me, or are they no longer around?

[TIG]

The Pro version on PC still has tooltips...
Have you tried reinstalling/repairing your MAC Pro installation ?
They should be there...

[dmorong]

I did a quick reinstall after I tried the free version and found they still work there.
I will trash everything and do a clean reinstall and see if that fixes it.

[jeff hammond]

tooltips are still there on my systems (macs with latest version of sketchup pro)

somehow, your .plist is screwy..

what's sort of weird i just noticed is that my .plist is still call com.google.sketchup8pro.plist (instead of com.trimble)..

anyway, when you reinstall sketchup (or a lot of apps actually), the .plist doesn't get updated.. otherwise, all of your preferences would be set to default and you'd have to re set it up to your liking..

probably the 2nd easiest way to fix this would be to just trash your .plist.. for that you'd have to:

--close sketchup
--click on finder in the dock
--click the 'go' menu at the top of the screen
--hold down the option key
--a new menu item named 'library' will appear under the go menu (this is the user library-- click on it)
--open the folder named 'preferences'
--find the file 'com.google.sketchuppro8' (or whatever version you're using)
-- trash the file then launch sketchup

a new .plist will be created upon relaunching sketchup but everything will be set to defaults.. so, if you have a lot of customized prefs, be prepared to reset everything to your liking..

likewise, if you have XCode installed (or something else that can edit .plists) you can manually change the preference.. open the sketchup plist file described above then find the line- SketchUp.Preferences.ShowInferenceTips then set it to YES..

[the easiest way would be to use Terminal to change the setting back to yes but i'm a bit hesitant to give instructions on doing so.. i'd have to test it myself first etc and i'm not in that kind of mood ]

[driven]

hi

you can read the file from the confort of SU's Ruby Console using

`defaults read -app /Applications/Google\\ SketchUp\\ 8/Sketchup.app  2>&1 | grep "ShowInferenceTips" 2>&1`

that will return "SketchUp.Preferences.ShowInferenceTips" = YES; or No
you can change it from here as well with

`defaults write -app /Applications/Google\\ SketchUp\\ 8/Sketchup.app  "SketchUp.Preferences.ShowInferenceTips"  YES  2>&1`

if you want to read or change any preferences, you can read all with the bit before grep, the 2>&1 just sends error messages, to check it's working...
after you can restart from 'Ruby Console' using

Thread.new{`sleep 5  && cd / && open Applications/Google\\ SketchUp\\ 8/Sketchup.app`};
Sketchup.send_action('terminate;')

you can change 'most' things from here without them being overwritten on close or open, and you can check on re opening and use Terminal.app if it fails to stick... [slightly different code, report back if you need it]

john