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    [Plugin] Layers Panel 1.2.1

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    • Bob JamesB Offline
      Bob James
      last edited by

      @huckrorick said:

      Re:
      "It auto-updates the layer state of the current scene.
      If you turn on or off a layer, it's saved in the scene.

      Isn't that what I would want to happen??"

      From my use I would not want that to happen. When I open a scene I frequently want to turn on and off other layers while I'm examining the model. I do not want those changes automatically made to the scene. If I want the changes, then I click "update". It would be VERY inconvenient for my use to have every layer I turn on or off added to the scene.

      Your logic has changed my mind: I agree with you 100%. πŸ˜„

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      • S Offline
        Stephen Roberts
        last edited by

        Can't use it on my system - bugsplats every single time I try a drawing. I'm going to try disabling other plugins till I find out which one is causing the problem. If I find an answer I will feed it back. Looks very promising and I hope it can be kept....

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        • tt_suT Offline
          tt_su
          last edited by

          Is your forum profile up to date? You are using Windows (what version) with SketchUp 8?

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          • D Offline
            davecoopstl
            last edited by

            This is a fantastic plugin! Thanks for all the hard work.

            Any chance you could make it so that when I use the Hide Dialogs function in SketchUp, your Layers Panel is included in the Dialog Boxes that hide/unhide??

            That would be super-handy. Especially since I have Hide Dialogs assigned to a Shortcut Key and, right now, they all hide except for your Layers Panel.

            Just a suggestion.
            Dave.

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

              As far as I know, the API doesn't allow this.

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

                @wind-borne said:

                @jiminy-billy-bob said:

                @wind-borne said:

                Suggestion:
                You might want to enlarge icon for use in main toolbar, barely discernible as shown on top shot.

                Do you have a retina screen ?

                No, here is a shot of your icon surrounded by others in the customize toolbar window.

                Could you test the attached plugin and tell me if it has the same problem ? (The icon should be the same as Layers Panel)
                Thanks


                jbb_toolbar_test.rbz

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                • wind-borneW Offline
                  wind-borne
                  last edited by

                  @jiminy-billy-bob said:

                  Could you test the attached plugin and tell me if it has the same problem ? (The icon should be the same as Layers Panel)
                  Thanks

                  same result, small in main

                  floating ok sized yet do not want auto loading


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                  "To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text."OSX 10.11.6

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

                    Great, thanks. I needed to know this snippet has the issue before filling a bug report.

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                    • Rich O BrienR Online
                      Rich O Brien Moderator
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                      I never knew this tread had added a poll?

                      Nice to see Thea getting some attention

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

                        Yeah it's been some time now πŸ˜„

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

                          .

                          New version 0.9.1 beta !

                          Changelog :

                          • Fixed options dialog on OSX
                          • Disabled automatic display of floating toolbar on OSX
                          • Fixed "Add layer hidden on new pages"
                          • Fixed clash with RichSections plugin
                          • Several bug fixes

                          Download in the plugin store !

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                          • P Offline
                            paolo01
                            last edited by

                            Just installed and the plugin is very useful, to keep layers in order. It is really excellent! Thank you!
                            If I can suggest a new function, it might be useful to have the possibility to duplicate the position of a single layer in different groups. For instance, in a building with many stores, I could have the layer "external walls store2" within the group "store2", but also within the group "external walls", containing all the external walls of any store .
                            I think it could be possible to reach a similar result using layers and outliner together, but using a single panel would make the function of visibility much simpler.
                            Thank you again and good job!
                            Paolo

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

                              I think it would be rather confusing to have duplicates of the same layer. I've never seen such thing in any software, and I think there is a reason for that.
                              Although, I was considering adding a function similar to layer compositions in Photoshop.

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                              • wind-borneW Offline
                                wind-borne
                                last edited by

                                @jiminy-billy-bob said:

                                .

                                New version 0.9.1 beta !

                                Changelog :

                                • Fixed options dialog on OSX
                                • Disabled automatic display of floating toolbar on OSX

                                Thanks for saving me the trouble to deal with toolbar with each update. πŸ˜„

                                Options dialog still dysfunctional on my OSX,
                                reverts to this setup regardless of my choices


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                                "To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text."OSX 10.11.6

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

                                  So you confirm you're running SU8 pro on OSX 10.9.1 ?
                                  Do you see the effects of changing these options ? (Like if you uncheck "Display render toolbar")

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                                    rafaelparedes
                                    last edited by

                                    no add a layer only visible in the current scene 😞?

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                                    • wind-borneW Offline
                                      wind-borne
                                      last edited by

                                      @jiminy-billy-bob said:

                                      So you confirm you're running SU8 pro on OSX 10.9.1 ?
                                      Do you see the effects of changing these options ? (Like if you uncheck "Display render toolbar")

                                      Yes, using 10.9.1 and SU pro and tested on SU 2013, no combination of check/uncheck of boxes has any effect and reopening options displays as shown above every time.

                                      Duh moment when I read warning sign when merging layers and saw I could disable elsewhere. My style of modeling doesn't bring forth that warning on its own and didn't understand why the plugin was until I watched SU's Layers window while merging layers. The warning sign was what I wanted to eliminate and now I know how.

                                      "To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text."OSX 10.11.6

                                      %(#BF80BF)[SU 8 pro

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

                                        @wind-borne said:

                                        @jiminy-billy-bob said:

                                        So you confirm you're running SU8 pro on OSX 10.9.1 ?
                                        Do you see the effects of changing these options ? (Like if you uncheck "Display render toolbar")

                                        Yes, using 10.9.1 and SU pro and tested on SU 2013, no combination of check/uncheck of boxes has any effect and reopening options displays as shown above every time.

                                        What I mean is, does it hide the render toolbar ? (In the main dialog)
                                        I want to know if the changes are applied, apart from the options dialog being broken.

                                        @wind-borne said:

                                        Duh moment when I read warning sign when merging layers and saw I could disable elsewhere. My style of modeling doesn't bring forth that warning on its own and didn't understand why the plugin was until I watched SU's Layers window while merging layers. The warning sign was what I wanted to eliminate and now I know how.

                                        Warning when merging layers ? There is none in LP. I d'ont get what you're talking about.
                                        Maybe the warning when drawing geometry on another layer than layer0 ?

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                                        • wind-borneW Offline
                                          wind-borne
                                          last edited by

                                          @jiminy-billy-bob said:

                                          @wind-borne said:

                                          @jiminy-billy-bob said:

                                          So you confirm you're running SU8 pro on OSX 10.9.1 ?
                                          Do you see the effects of changing these options ? (Like if you uncheck "Display render toolbar")

                                          Yes, using 10.9.1 and SU pro and tested on SU 2013, no combination of check/uncheck of boxes has any effect and reopening options displays as shown above every time.

                                          What I mean is, does it hide the render toolbar ? (In the main dialog)
                                          I want to know if the changes are applied, apart from the options dialog being broken.

                                          @wind-borne said:

                                          Duh moment when I read warning sign when merging layers and saw I could disable elsewhere. My style of modeling doesn't bring forth that warning on its own and didn't understand why the plugin was until I watched SU's Layers window while merging layers. The warning sign was what I wanted to eliminate and now I know how.

                                          Warning when merging layers ? There is none in LP. I d'ont get what you're talking about.
                                          Maybe the warning when drawing geometry on another layer than layer0 ?

                                          Vid showing your Layers Panel rebuilding and second part shows (control-E)merge layers moving active layer(shown in SU layer window) and tripping warning sign.

                                          Unticking the warning box yields same results though not shown in vid.

                                          "To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text."OSX 10.11.6

                                          %(#BF80BF)[SU 8 pro

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

                                            Thanks for the video! very usefull πŸ˜‰

                                            There is clearly some issue with storing user preferences. I'll look into it.

                                            As for the warning, it seems you have this plugin installed. It is the one displaying this warning.

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