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    • H Offline
      hebeijianke
      last edited by

      Thanks
      This plugin is great
      But when I translate into chinese
      something wrong


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      • thomthomT Offline
        thomthom
        last edited by

        hmm... could be Unicode issues. Could you send me the translated version?

        Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
        List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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          hebeijianke
          last edited by

          @thomthom said:

          hmm... could be Unicode issues. Could you send me the translated version?

          This is translated


          tt_texteditor.rb

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            jolran
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            @unknownuser said:

            apart from my wife, no.
            😄

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              ralph102
              last edited by

              ThomThom,
              Great plugin.
              Any chance you could make the text follow a predefined path or arch?
              Since your plugin works with installed system fonts, would it be difficult to add other typographical controls such as kerning or line spacing?

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              • thomthomT Offline
                thomthom
                last edited by

                @ralph102 said:

                Any chance you could make the text follow a predefined path or arch?

                I just had a request from a colleague yesterday about this. Might do a separate plugin to fit sets of meshes to a path. But no promises.

                @ralph102 said:

                Since your plugin works with installed system fonts, would it be difficult to add other typographical controls such as kerning or line spacing?

                Nope. Not unless they add these features in the SketchUp Ruby API. At the moment all that I can adjust is in that dialogue.

                Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                • jim smithJ Offline
                  jim smith
                  last edited by

                  Thom,

                  thanks for this plug in.

                  I like the way I can change text styles, and sizes. However, once I hit close, if I want to edit further, I can't...... Am I missing something?

                  "Out of clutter find simplicity,
                  from discord find harmony,
                  In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity"
                  Albert Einstein

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                  • TIGT Offline
                    TIG Moderator
                    last edited by

                    Select a piece of 3d-text > right-click > context-menu ...Edit Text

                    TIG

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                    • jim smithJ Offline
                      jim smith
                      last edited by

                      Thanks TIG.

                      I missed seeing the "edit text" line down on the bottom of my long list of context selection items.

                      "Out of clutter find simplicity,
                      from discord find harmony,
                      In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity"
                      Albert Einstein

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                        rv1974
                        last edited by

                        😕 (SU2013 win7 x64, latest TT_lib (v.7.1)))
                        there's nothing in combo-box, height parameter is down.
                        Any hints?


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                        • TIGT Offline
                          TIG Moderator
                          last edited by

                          @rv1974 said:

                          :? (SU2013 win7 x64, latest TT_lib (v.7.1)))
                          there's nothing in combo-box, height parameter is down.
                          Any hints?
                          Are you doubly sure that this Lib is 'latest' and properly installed ?
                          Screen-shot of Plugins WE window ?
                          What can you do after closing that error-message ?

                          TIG

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                          • thomthomT Offline
                            thomthom
                            last edited by

                            @rv1974 said:

                            :? (SU2013 win7 x64, latest TT_lib (v.7.1)))
                            there's nothing in combo-box, height parameter is down.
                            Any hints?

                            Try these possible solutions - in order.

                            #1: Check that you don't have an old version of TT_Lib in the VirtualStore: http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=48399

                            #2: Manually reinstall TT_Lib - by closing all SketchUp windows and removing the TT_Lib2 lib files before reinstalling.

                            (BTW: What is your Internet Explorer version? )

                            (P.S. The latest version of TT_Lib is 2.8.2 - currently only available on the Extension Warehouse. Ditto for an updated version of 3D Text Editor - though the very latest revision is still in moderation. I'm still in the process in updating my plugins to comply with the EW requirements - and I'm currently awaiting some changes to the SCF PluginStore before I start updating my plugin threads here.)

                            Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                            List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                              rv1974
                              last edited by

                              Good news:
                              I managed to make tt_text work properly.
                              Bad news: now I've got 2 the same "editable 3d text" lines in Draw menu. the same happens in the Context menu.
                              I guess I should purge something i plugins folder. Could you look at the attached search filter (by 'tt')?
                              BTW#1 I've got IE 9.0.8112
                              BTW#2 I have vertigo with all those 'shops' (SU Ext wharehouse, virtualstore, sketchucation forum threads, sketchucation plugin store 😲 ). Where from I should get your goodies?
                              Thank you for trying to sort it out.


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                              • thomthomT Offline
                                thomthom
                                last edited by

                                VirtualStore is not a plugin repository. It's a security feature in Windows that will place files in a "virtual" ghost folder mirroring the original one. Please check out the link in #1 of my previous post - install the utility and use it to check of you have files trapped in Virtual Store.

                                (alternatively: when you look at your Plugins folder with Explorer, do you see a Compatibility Files button?)

                                Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                                List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                                • thomthomT Offline
                                  thomthom
                                  last edited by

                                  @rv1974 said:

                                  BTW#2 I have vertigo with all those 'shops' (SU Ext wharehouse, virtualstore, sketchucation forum threads, sketchucation plugin store 😲 ). Where from I should get your goodies?

                                  Currently the very latest versions of my plugins are at Extension Warehouse. I will migrate the forum posts at SCF to point to the PluginStore and update these as well. But there are some things that needs to be done to the PluginStore first.

                                  Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                                  List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                                    rv1974
                                    last edited by

                                    @thomthom said:

                                    VirtualStore is not a plugin repository. It's a security feature in Windows that will place files in a "virtual" ghost folder mirroring the original one. Please check out the link in #1 of my previous post - install the utility and use it to check of you have files trapped in Virtual Store.

                                    (alternatively: when you look at your Plugins folder with Explorer, do you see a Compatibility Files button?)

                                    I run the 'virtualstore' and the report says there are no files in it.
                                    I see no 'Compatibility Files' button in Plugins folder. Where it should be located?

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                                    • thomthomT Offline
                                      thomthom
                                      last edited by

                                      It's only visible if there are files in VirtualStore. Since that isn't the case I'm not sure what is going on here. It's not something I've seen.

                                      Can you post a screenshot of your Plugins folder in Explorer?

                                      ...you don't have anything like Organizer installed, have you?

                                      Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                                      List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                                        rv1974
                                        last edited by

                                        After some manual deleting\reinstalling I set the things right. No worries.
                                        P.S. Here are some points that could make this tool more efficient:

                                        1. make it non-modal (like windowizer 4 or profile builder), it'd speed up the editing of large number of components drastically.
                                        2. height and extrude values come true only after some editing.
                                        3. in complex models (with lot of nesting) the tool's snapping does not work correctly.
                                          Had no problems with native 3d text.
                                        4. After running TIG's 'uniquify' script some 3d text component look unchanged, but
                                          when one would try to edit the text it get mirrored (see attached). Donno where your this bug come from.

                                        KKKK.zip

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                                        • thomthomT Offline
                                          thomthom
                                          last edited by

                                          @rv1974 said:

                                          1. make it non-modal (like windowizer 4 or profile builder), it'd speed up the editing of large number of components drastically.

                                          But, it's not modal... and whether it would be modal or not - how would that improve performance?

                                          @rv1974 said:

                                          1. height and extrude values come true only after some editing.

                                          This is fixed in the version that is plaiting moderation in EW.

                                          @rv1974 said:

                                          1. in complex models (with lot of nesting) the tool's snapping does not work correctly.
                                            Had no problems with native 3d text.

                                          Can you explain further to what isn't working correctly? What am I looking for to reproduce this?

                                          @rv1974 said:

                                          1. After running TIG's 'uniquify' script some 3d text component look unchanged, but
                                            when one would try to edit the text it get mirrored (see attached). Donno where your this bug come from.

                                          I don't know what his uniquify script does... but if it doesn't preserve the transformation and orientation of the original component then it'll mess things up. When third party tools modify the text group it's hard to predict what will happen.

                                          Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                                          List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                                            JuanV.Soler
                                            last edited by

                                            Hi thomthom
                                            I think this is a great plugin that you could keep improving . There is trouble when changing heights that I workaround by clicking and unclicking the extrude buttom . My question is can it be possible to update a bunch of texts to a chosen one ? Sort of Matching Properties ?

                                            thankyou

                                            ,))),

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