[Plugin] Layers Panel 1.2.1

Bob James · 3 Dec 2013, 04:41

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%.

Stephen Roberts · 4 Dec 2013, 09:51

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....

tt_su · 4 Dec 2013, 10:31

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

davecoopstl · 5 Dec 2013, 19:57

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.

jiminy-billy-bob · 5 Dec 2013, 20:48

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

jiminy-billy-bob · 8 Dec 2013, 13:40

@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

wind-borne · 8 Dec 2013, 15:07

@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

jiminy-billy-bob · 8 Dec 2013, 16:26

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

Rich O Brien · 8 Dec 2013, 16:48

I never knew this tread had added a poll?

Nice to see Thea getting some attention

jiminy-billy-bob · 8 Dec 2013, 17:22

Yeah it's been some time now

jiminy-billy-bob · 12 Dec 2013, 21:16

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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 !

paolo01 · 15 Dec 2013, 17:41

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

jiminy-billy-bob · 15 Dec 2013, 22:08

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.

wind-borne · 16 Dec 2013, 00:18

@jiminy-billy-bob said:

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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.

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

jiminy-billy-bob · 17 Dec 2013, 21:53

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")

rafaelparedes · 18 Dec 2013, 06:53

no add a layer only visible in the current scene ?

wind-borne · 18 Dec 2013, 07:29

@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.

jiminy-billy-bob · 18 Dec 2013, 08:02

@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 ?

wind-borne · 18 Dec 2013, 17:14

@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.

jiminy-billy-bob · 18 Dec 2013, 18:16

Thanks for the video! very usefull

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.