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    • M Offline
      mirale999
      last edited by

      Great plugin~ I find it easy to switch from mm to M when just to measure the area of a plan now!

      paranoia is a higher form of awareness...

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        driven
        last edited by

        Hi.
        I don't think it's a Lion issue... per say

        on the mac the MF_UNCHECKED MF_CHECKED just doesn't work to your advantage, and after a few wrong combinations, it stops switching the screen text, although console says it's working.

        if you run it with RC open you can see that your better off re-clicking the currently selected first, to turn the shadow off, then changing. it's a drag, but SU enabled the native buttons behavior to latch and when it also coded to latch....

        the mac native SU button code needs to be modified, then we can have buttons the toggles, like 'some' native SU ones that were set up correctly.

        as a stop gap I changed the MF_CHECKED to MF_UNCHECKED, which sightly reduces confusion.
        john

        learn from the mistakes of others, you may not live long enough to make them all yourself...

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        • mariochaM Offline
          mariocha
          last edited by

          Well, no luck here on OS X Lion, with v 2.11
          Only the first 4 icons and the 2 setting the precision work; And the greyed out icons stays on when it should go out.


          toggle-units Mac.png

          %(#008000)[Mario C.
          Every rule has exceptions, but some.]

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            driven
            last edited by

            no the native setting will still shadow the buttons as if selected, the light greying seems to work, until it/you gets confused,

            it only works on unavailable options, so maybe the fractions/decimal triggering could be modified to make it more intuitive...

            I just turned off Fractions and Arch and Use ENG in either metric or imperial, but with decimals only.

            I understand fractions, but not the use of them.... although they should run faster with binary conversions....

            john

            learn from the mistakes of others, you may not live long enough to make them all yourself...

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            • mariochaM Offline
              mariocha
              last edited by

              Oh ! you mean the shadowing of the buttons is within SU. πŸ˜•
              Oh well, then I can just re-click it to make the shadow go.
              Here in Quebec, we are caught between 2 worlds so I have to use both Arch. and Met.

              %(#008000)[Mario C.
              Every rule has exceptions, but some.]

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              • mariochaM Offline
                mariocha
                last edited by

                Hum... in this case, we do not really need the current icon being greyed cause we can see witch is the current unit setting just by looking at the dimensions in the model.
                The main drag is that some do not work. Maybe taking the "greying" part of the code out ? ❓
                update; I deleted the "MF checked-MF unchecked" and "validation" parts and they now all work fine.
                Now If I could find how to disable the greying out of the icons. πŸ˜„

                %(#008000)[Mario C.
                Every rule has exceptions, but some.]

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                  driven
                  last edited by

                  hay,

                  I'm in England, 50% of the population think mm is the Mickey Mouse Club and the rest think a foot is on the end of their leg...

                  I work with both

                  learn from the mistakes of others, you may not live long enough to make them all yourself...

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                    Matt666
                    last edited by

                    Hi. I apologize for mac bugs, I have no mac to test plugins... 😠
                    Did you see there is an option that lets you choose icons you want to display? You can hide fractional icon if you want.

                    Frenglish at its best !
                    My scripts

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                      element
                      last edited by

                      Useful plugin.

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                        pololo
                        last edited by

                        Useful plugin!!! Thanks!!

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                        • P Offline
                          Pete
                          last edited by

                          Matt666, thank you for the very handy plugin. I use this all the time and was wondering if I could make one request...

                          Could you add a favorites toggle? What I mean by this is allow the user to set favorite units / precision combinations they could toggle between with one click. In my case I need to toggle CM with 0.0 precision and Inches with 1/16 precision constantly. If I could set these two as favorites and have one button that would switch between only those two I would owe you!!

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                            Matt666
                            last edited by

                            Hi Pete! Thank you for your kind words..

                            i don't use SU and Ruby anymore, my new job as musician doesn't need for these kind of software! πŸ˜„
                            But I love programming so I will try to do something for you..

                            I just have to reinstall SU!

                            Frenglish at its best !
                            My scripts

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                              design54
                              last edited by

                              i have a question please;
                              can i use the plugin toggle units in commercial use; i mean i will not sell it, i want to use it in my design, i am interior designer and i use sketchup pro 8, to designs designs for clients so is it allowed to me to use it or no?

                              thank you
                              waiting your feedback

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                              • TIGT Offline
                                TIG Moderator
                                last edited by

                                @design54 said:

                                i have a question please;
                                can i use the plugin toggle units in commercial use; i mean i will not sell it, i want to use it in my design, i am interior designer and i use sketchup pro 8, to designs designs for clients so is it allowed to me to use it or no?
                                thank you
                                waiting your feedback
                                Obviously you can't 'sell' someone else's creation, but the use of most of the forum's 'free' tools in your 'business' is acceptable, unless there is something specifically in a tool's 'notices' saying you can't... In this case it's 'All Rights Reserved... Free License...' etc but with no other limitations that I can see...
                                Having said that it would be nice to offer an author a modest PayPal donation - after all if you are making money from a tool then sharing some of it would only seem fair... "What goes around comes around..."
                                Matt666 doesn't have a donation button on the 'SketchUcation Plugin Store', but this doesn't prevent you sending him a Private Message and asking the question... If he declines you are no worse off, if he accepts you might feel better in your heart...

                                TIG

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                                • atelierpaarA Offline
                                  atelierpaar
                                  last edited by

                                  Hello there,
                                  I just installed SU 2014,
                                  After downloading Matts Toggle_Units.rb using the sketchucation download-Manager I get the following Error message:

                                  Fehler beim Laden der Datei Matt_Toggle_Units.rb
                                  Error: #<SyntaxError: C:/Users/Architekt/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2014/SketchUp/Plugins/Matt_Toggle_Units.rb:62: syntax error, unexpected ',', expecting ')'
                                  Sketchup.register_extension (ext,true)
                                  ^>
                                  Any Idea how to fix this ?
                                  thank`s for your comments,
                                  Uli

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                                    hygicell
                                    last edited by

                                    same problem here ! 😒
                                    could someone please make this wonderful plugin available for sketchup 2014 ?
                                    thanks
                                    Frank

                                    Error Loading File Matt_Toggle_Units.rb
                                    Error: #<SyntaxError: C:/Users/Frank/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2014/SketchUp/Plugins/Matt_Toggle_Units.rb:62: syntax error, unexpected ',', expecting ')'
                                    Sketchup.register_extension (ext,true)
                                    ^>

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                                    • jiminy-billy-bobJ Offline
                                      jiminy-billy-bob
                                      last edited by

                                      You should try to contact Matt by email or something, so that he can fix it.

                                      In the meantime, open the file
                                      C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\SketchUp\SketchUp 2014\SketchUp\Plugins\Matt_Toggle_Units.rb
                                      in notepad.

                                      Change the last line from
                                      Sketchup.register_extension (ext,true)
                                      to
                                      Sketchup.register_extension ext, true

                                      Then it should work fine.

                                      BTW, even if we can't get in touch with him, we cannot redistribute a fixed version of his plugin, as he states in his files "All Rights Reserved".

                                      EDIT : It seems he visited the forum on Feb 27, so he should be around somewhere πŸ˜‰

                                      25% off Skatter for SketchUcation Premium Members

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                                        Matt666
                                        last edited by

                                        Hi all, I edited 1st post with a correction of the bug. Thank you.

                                        Frenglish at its best !
                                        My scripts

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                                        • atelierpaarA Offline
                                          atelierpaar
                                          last edited by

                                          your right,
                                          after changing the last line, everything works fine.
                                          thanks for your help jiminy-billy-bob

                                          Uli

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                                            dtrarch
                                            last edited by

                                            Hi all
                                            I needed to add extensions.rb to plugins and edit
                                            toolbar_manager.html
                                            tustrings.en
                                            to correct english(engeniery) to Engineering (.en)

                                            Now works and spells OK πŸ‘Ž πŸ‘Ž

                                            Thank you Matt and what do you play ?

                                            dtr


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