[Plugin] LaunchUp – A Quick Launcher for SketchUp

guanjin · 28 Mar 2013, 15:46

Chinese tools, the search seems to be not very good!

thomthom · 28 Mar 2013, 16:32

Chinese tools, the search seems to be not very good!

Sounds like it could be a Unicode issue?
Are you searching in Ruby or Javascript, Andreas?
Javascript should be able to handle Unicode.

Aerilius · 28 Mar 2013, 16:42

@tba said:

the plugin lost the functionality after changing something in the plugin preferences.

I updated it to version 1.0.2 and fixed a possible cause for this issue (I don't know if that solves it).

@guanjin said:

Chinese tools, the search seems to be not very good!

I would be glad if I could make it work well with more languages.

LaunchUp searches through two sorts of data:

all your plugins:
It gives results in the language of these plugins. If a plugin has been translated to your language, you would search in your language. If it is English, you would search in English. It would be best if all plugins were translated. I believe Trimble knows that this is a popular wish.
functions of SketchUp:
We developers have no direct access to the texts in the menu. I had to duplicate all and I don't have them completely translated. I would need help with this. At the moment, English, French and German are complete, and Spanish and Portuguese need some work (see the lang folder).

I will test the plugin in the Chinese version of SketchUp and see if there are special problems that I could improve (but I don't understand Chinese).

Aerilius · 28 Mar 2013, 16:48

@thomthom said:

Are you searching in Ruby or Javascript, Andreas?

I had implemented the exact search algorithms in JavaScript and Ruby. Ruby was significantly faster (but it shouldn't be any effort to switch to JavaScript).

I tried it with Unicode characters (that Ruby interpretes as two bytes) and it worked well. It seemed to me that it doesn't matter whether Ruby sees a double byte character or two single bytes, if the search word and the scanned string contain both the same Unicode characters (or double/multiple bytes).
I'll do more tests.

thomthom · 28 Mar 2013, 17:57

Yea, Ruby would do a byte search and that should work. But if you do any modifications then it'll easily break.

Bob James · 28 Mar 2013, 20:07

Just gave it a try. Great potential.
Looked for Vertex Tools: The only thing that was listed was Insert Vertex. I chose that and it brings up Vertex Tools Toolbar, not just Insert Vertex.
I'll keep experimenting and look forward to further developments

guanjin · 29 Mar 2013, 10:45

@aerilius said:

@thomthom said:

Are you searching in Ruby or Javascript, Andreas?

I had implemented the exact search algorithms in JavaScript and Ruby. Ruby was significantly faster (but it shouldn't be any effort to switch to JavaScript).

I tried it with Unicode characters (that Ruby interpretes as two bytes) and it worked well. It seemed to me that it doesn't matter whether Ruby sees a double byte character or two single bytes, if the search word and the scanned string contain both the same Unicode characters (or double/multiple bytes).
I'll do more tests.

Only very smoothly sandbox tools search

lionk · 30 Mar 2013, 09:30

We translated the Chinese language files, test perfect!
Translated by 麦兜(miduee)&双鱼(shuangyu)

Chinese lang files

Aerilius · 30 Mar 2013, 11:29

Wow! That is so much work, thank you!!!

Litchi · 30 Mar 2013, 12:49

thanks for your presents ！it's great ！

caronte01 · 31 Mar 2013, 00:34

Nice plugin!

I like having as few toolbars visible as it is possible. Also, many times, one or two functions of any plugin is all I use, but I have to keep the entire toolbar visible. This plugin solves the problem.

One question:
Is there a way to switch between icons and text. Not all of the plugins I use have toolbars/icons. It would be nice to have text instead of icons, as an option. And, can the text be a bit smaller and not in bold.

Thanks a lot!!!!

Santiago

caronte01 · 31 Mar 2013, 02:34

Spanish strings, revised and corrected.

Santiago
LaunchUp_es.rar

TBA · 31 Mar 2013, 09:39

Hi Aerilius,

this 1.0.2 version works on mac now !
(but the LaunchUp-Option dialog pops up empty and white like in the version before)

And there are two more issues
1_
The number of suggestions I can type in the preferences shows time the same result of 10.
No matter if I type in 25 or whatever -> the results have a number of 10 only!

2_
The "dialog stay after execute a command" isn´t working.
After enable this -> the next time is unable like before.

Additional note:
The LaunchUp window fit to the smallest state if enabled LaunchUpagain, but only after executing a command. After then, I must drag it out (make it bigger) manually to see the last results and preferences button/field.
If I look only in the preferences and close these -> next time I enable LaunchUp again -> the dialog shows the preference button line and the last results.

Hope you can fix this all also

Best regards,
Thomas

Aerilius · 31 Mar 2013, 12:14

Hi Caronte,
thank you for the translations!

A toolbar usually has icons and not text. In the screenshot, the history's style is set to "toolbar" and text that you see is rather a "fallback" for plugins that don't have an icon. You can change the style of the history to something else with icon + text by typing "LaunchUp Options"
I'll look how I can optimize the toolbar style to display better readable text without breaking the layout of a toolbar. Any ideas are welcome.

Hi Thomas,
thanks, I have already received your PM, and have begun working on some changes that could maybe improve it on OS X. Though at the moment, the sun is shining (maybe the first time this winter) and it's not so easy to test without owning a mac.

caronte01 · 31 Mar 2013, 16:48

Aerilius

Thanks, that fixed the issue. One thing is that behavior preferences are not saved between sessions, or even between closing and opening the launchup window

TBA · 2 Apr 2013, 21:00

Hi Aerilius,

thanks for all your work !

I hope you enjoy the sun in Germany/Kaiserslautern also for the next days

Best regards from Hamburg,
Thomas

thomthom · 5 Apr 2013, 09:29

Maybe add a load trap if one package is missing - display a better error message?

thomthom · 5 Apr 2013, 09:34

Finally got around to try out this gem.

But I'm a little puzzled by the search results some times. It appear to include results not matching my search.

Aerilius · 5 Apr 2013, 12:16

What package missing?

At the moment, the search is a bit too tolerant (ie. it gives abbreviations too much weight, like "S… and"). Today evening I'll have a new version ready.

thomthom · 5 Apr 2013, 12:30

@aerilius said:

What package missing?

In my case I was a bit quick in getting started and didn't install the command package. I didn't RTFM.