SU 2013 not allowing SU 8 to run plugins!
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Hi,
Recently I noticed one of my favorite plugins (SimFonIA Animation Tools) could not run properly inside SketchUp 8 if 2013 version was also installed.
This is very odd to me and I cannot explain why this happened. I reported this to the team and they said they are working on a solution.
If any one have an idea what may have caused this or if there are other plugins suffering from this I will be interested to know.
Thanks,
Renderiza -
I've not seen such behaviour. And I don't see how it can happen at all - as the two versions are completely separated... :s
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This is strange indeed but the tests I have made have indicated that somehow SU2013 conflicts with that specific plugin running on SU8.
Plugin runs great if SU2013 is not installed but as soon as I install SU2013 it doesn't work so I need to uninstall it again for me to use it.
Also this seems not to only be the case for me because the SimFonIA team seemed to reproduce what I just mentioned and they are trying to solve it.
Now maybe what is causing this doesn't necessarily have to with SketchUp but maybe something else since the plugin is very complex.
Thanks,
Renderiza -
Then I'd think it's related to their plugins. None of my own plugins or the ones I've used fails. And I cannot see anything in the API system that should fail due to having multiple versions installed.
How are their plugin installed? Installer or RBZ package?
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You install the plugin using RBZ file and when you do, it says you successfully installed it and the toolbar buttons appear normally, but when you try to enter Key Frame Editor the following error appears...
If you click yes it enters the web-dialog and you can still set values to animate stuff but keeps showing errors left and right.
I have also tested tons of other plugins both on SU8 and SU2013 without any issues but this one seems to be the exception.
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If you are using a Windows system, believe it or not, installing SU2013 changes the 'browser' that is used by SU8. On my systems with only SU8 or earlier, SU8 reports IE7 for the browser. Once SU2013 is installed, SU8 reports IE9 for the browser.
I've had isssues with initializing WebDialogs using code inside the WebDialog.show method. I've found it is much better to perform those tasks usig a callback from the documents 'load' event.
The error you've shown is a script error from the WebDialog's JavaScript, which is probably trying to set the value of something that doesn't exist yet...
FWIW,
Greg
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Thank you for this feedback!
I'll be sure to report this back to them just in case they don't already know.
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@msp_greg said:
If you are using a Windows system, believe it or not, installing SU2013 changes the 'browser' that is used by SU8. On my systems with only SU8 or earlier, SU8 reports IE7 for the browser. Once SU2013 is installed, SU8 reports IE9 for the browser.
This is correct, SU2013 changes the default rendering mode for WebDialogs. (WebDialogs, or embedded WebControls, are by design made to be more conservative in picking rendering mode than normal browsers.)
It can however be overwritten:
<meta http-equiv="x-ua-compatible" content="IE=7" >
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj676915%28v=vs.85%29.aspxI've always included such a tag in my webdialogs - to kick it into a better rendering mode - so I was unaffected by this change.
To make a webdialog use the latest render mode:
<meta http-equiv="x-ua-compatible" content="IE=edge" > -
Hello Everybody,
The new version of SAT 2013 (V2.0) compatible with SKP 2013 is finally available!
Just log in to your account on http://www.simfonia.fr/SAT and re-download your version of SAT to get this new release.SimFonIA Team!
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Great, thanks for the update!
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