Load Toolbars

Burkhard

I start to set my own Toolbar to load the single Toolbars with a one Button solution.

I use for the start:

def thea_show

User::ToolbarSet["Thea Exporter"].show()

end #def

@cmd = UI::Command.new("Thearender") { thea_show }
@cmd.small_icon = "../images/th.png"
@cmd.large_icon = "../images/th.png"
@cmd.tooltip = "Thea Render"

( The cmd are for Jim's Toolbar Plugin )

This works for four of six Buttons. ( Shaderlight and the Thea Exporter do not open )
Is there a reason why some toolbars wont open and some do?

Thanks Burkhard

TIG

thea_show ?
If you type that in the Ruby Console does it work ??

Burkhard

With Thea Exporter not but with Maxwell ..Yes

...and don't ask why...I just tried a few things

Burkhard

This works too (Thea For SketchUp), just Shaderlight and Thea Exporter failed.

def theaskp_show

User::ToolbarSet["Thea For SketchUp"].show()

end #def

@cmd = UI::Command.new("Thearender") { theaskp_show }
@cmd.small_icon = "../images/ths.png"
@cmd.large_icon = "../images/ths.png"
@cmd.tooltip = "Thea Render for Sketchup"

Burkhard

Found a workaround. It needs to be refresh, so I build in a refresh Button with:
User::ToolbarSet.refresh() (Thanks to Dan http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=51432 )
So, if a Toolbar is not loaded, it works after refresh the hash

Dan Rathbun

(A) Any script that is going to access User::ToolbarSet should have a require call at the top like:
require('user/toolbarset.rb')
whose argument is whatever the dir and filename you used.

This way you be sure that the User module and ToolbarSet hash have been created.

(B) Ruby UI:Toolbar objects are created in the order that scripts are run.
1) Alphabetical according to their filename
2) as they are specified in require() calls

(Which can change the alpha order.)

(C) My suggestion is to name YOUR custom toolbar script so that it loads LAST, by using "X_my_toolbars.rb" or something, as it's filename. Then the require call, as shown in (A) at the top of this file, would create the User::ToolbarSet hash AFTER all other toolbars have been created.

Dan Rathbun

@burkhard said:

Found a workaround. It needs to be refresh, ...
So, if a Toolbar is not loaded, it works after refresh the hash.

The Toolbar WAS loaded, but UI::Toolbar references are NOT automatically added into the custom User::ToolbarSet hash.

SO.. I created the UI::Toolbar.refresh() method to find any new toolbars (created after the hash was populated,) and add them.

I WILL NOT modify the API's UI::Toolbar class constructor method, in a public script, because I feel it is a violation of the API Terms of Use.

BUT perhaps we can modify the User::ToolbarSet hash's [] method's error Proc, so that it refreshes the hash automatically.
See: http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=51432&p=466742#p466742