SKUI — A GUI Framework for SketchUp

thomthom

Interesting!
"A picture is worth a thousand words" .....will it contain the ability to include small graphics that provide better feedback to the user. A simple line of text in a dialog box with a cryptic title such as Depth of Window Sill, is hard to visualize.

There is an Image class which simply maps to an <IMG> tag. So you can display illustrative graphics to go along with the input elements. You can even make it update depending on what input element has the focus. (Actually, I might not have implemented all the events for that yet - but it's on the list of issues to address before an official v1.0 release)

thomthom

@anton_s said:

I have wanted something like that long before.

I hope you get a chance to try it out. I'm sorry that I've not gotten around to generate the API documentation yet. It's also one of the last things on my todo list before v1.0. I need to work out how to configure YARD to understand the new syntax I introduced.

But it's getting really close I think, which is why I make my call for testing.

mptak

Exciting to see. Looking forward to putting it to good creative use.

thomthom

I'll be working on the documentation so people can get started.

Jernej Vidmar

Hi Thomas, you have done a wonderful thing. Again. Congratulations!

jolran

I agree. This looks fantastic!

Pixero

Wow this looks great. May I suggest some sliders also.

thomthom

@pixero said:

May I suggest some sliders also.

Issue #44

I'd like the emphasize that I hope for this project to become a community project. That people improve it and grow it.

Right now I implemented a basic set of controls. I want to get the Milestone 1 issues done so the project has a good solid foundation. Once that is done the next focus would be more controls.

povmaniac

Interesting.. I forked your repository for tested with my exporter.
My level of Ruby / javascript is very limited.. atm
Greetings..

brewsky

Great project! I have also been thinking about something like this.
I'm going to try this out, beta or not, it seems way more solid than my own webdialogs

thomthom

@brewsky said:

I'm going to try this out, beta or not

It's quite a stable beta. I hope to get the last few issues ironed out soon.

Garry K

I'm also going to try this. Where can I get the most up to date documentation and examples?

Questions I have:

How will language translation work?
Do you support hints during hovering?
How well do the components line up? I would like to line things up like this.

Stair inputs imperial.JPG

jiminy-billy-bob

@pgarmyn said:

This is big great.
If it's platform independent, It will become the most downloaded plugin (after Sketchucation tools)

By devs, certainly! But I don't think regular users will download this.
(Well, they will, but embedded in other plugins)

thomthom

@garry k said:

Where can I get the most up to date documentation and examples?

Everything is located at the GitHub repository. https://github.com/thomthom/SKUI

@garry k said:

How will language translation work?

That's not handled by SKUI. You use your own translator - use it when you create the dialog. You can also change the labels after it's been loaded.

@garry k said:

Do you support hints during hovering?

Tooltips? By using the .tooltip getter and setter.
https://github.com/thomthom/SKUI/blob/master/src/SKUI/control.rb#L45

@garry k said:

How well do the components line up? I would like to line things up like this.

You line them us as you please. You specify position and size. There is no automatic layout as of now.

Note that it's still in beta. It's not 100% complete and might still incur breaking changes so pay attention if you use it and update. The Issue tracker on GitHub got an overview of open issues and what's targeted for the first release.

pgarmyn

@jiminy-billy-bob said:

By devs, certainly! But I don't think regular users will download this.
(Well, they will, but embedded in other plugins)

That's why it has to be on the plugin store as a library, and (automatically ?) loaded (by dependency)

Garry K

Can this be installed once - and then used by a number of different plugins by a number of different authors? Or do we have to include a copy of SKUI with each plugin installation?

tt_su

@garry k said:

Can this be installed once - and then used by a number of different plugins by a number of different authors?

I've not made it available for user installation.

@garry k said:

Or do we have to include a copy of SKUI with each plugin installation?

There is a special loading method that will let you load SKUI into your own namespace without requiring you to modify SKUI, please see the Wiki:
https://github.com/thomthom/SKUI/wiki/Embedding-SKUI-in-Projects

That way you get the version your plugin depend on - which require you to bundle it with your extension.
Since SKUI is still in flux I haven't yet considered any other way of distributing it - as changes would break plugins.

You could always fork the project and modify your own version, changing the root namespace.
Note that the license prohibit distribution of a modified SKUI unless you change the root namespace.
But I'd encourage people to contribute to the main GitHub repo instead of doing their private mods.

pgarmyn

This is great.
If it's platform independent, It will become the most downloaded plugin (after Sketchucation tools)

pgarmyn

Has SKUI been tested on Mac ?
Mac-users

thomthom

@pgarmyn said:

Has SKUI been tested on Mac ?
Mac-users

Yes, I have a mac I test it on.
How come? You found issues?