[Plugin] ToolbarEditor (1.1.2) – updated 08.06.2014

[thomthom]

Andreas, here's a nice idea that I liked. That in addition to customize toolbar one could paste a snippet for a completely new command: http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=52454&p=475992#p475990

This would be a great tool. You think this tool can be tweaked for that?

[Bob James]

1. Can someone write a sample ruby script to make an icon for a native command that has no icon so I can use it to add the icon to a toolbar made with ToolbarEditor?

2. How do you delete an icon in a toolbar made with ToolbarEditor?

3. How do you delete a toolbar made with ToolbarEditor?

[CadFather]

1 - which one?
2 - click on the icon and drag it slowly on the right panel
3 - click on the minus sign - top right of your toolbar header

[Bob James]

@cadfather said:

1 - which one?

Generically so I could modify it for any command

@cadfather said:

2 - click on the icon and drag it slowly on the right panel

Thank you

@cadfather said:

3 - click on the minus sign - top right of your toolbar header

duh

[Aerilius]

As in the API documentation… http://www.sketchup.com/intl/en/developer/docs/ourdoc/command.php

cmd = UI;;Command.new("name of the command"){
  AuthorModule;;PluginName.name_of_the_main_method()
}
cmd.tooltip = "tooltip that describes the command"
cmd.status_bar_text = "text that tells how to use the command"
cmd.large_icon = "./path/to/a/icon24px.png"
cmd.small_icon = "./path/to/a/icon16px.png"

It still can only be used with understanding of what it does, and you would have to look up how a certain plugin is started.

It would probably be sufficient and much easier to edit the plugin's own ruby file, look for "UI::Command.new" and add the icons. The icon path can either be relative to the ruby file or absolute (to the system's root, ie. "C:/" on Windows).

Some plugins add themself only to the menu without creating a command. That looks like this:

UI.menu("plugins").add_item("name of the command"){ name_of_the_method }

and can be replaced by a command object (as above) plus

UI.menu("plugins").add_item(cmd)

[danb]

Hello, could anyone help. I used this plugin with 2013 but it does not seem to work with 2014. I find it very useful, particularly as I use a mac and you can't stack the toolbars as you do on windows

many thanks

Dan

Macbook Pro
OSX 10.9
Sketchup Pro 2014

[Box]

It throws a load error in SU2014

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[Aerilius]

If you are curious, you can have a sneak-peak on the next version 1.1.0 with custom buttons. You will be able to create your own toolbar buttons for Ruby one-liners, code snippets or other things found on the forum.

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fixed LoadError

[Aerilius]

Thanks, I fixed the load error.

[TIG]

@aerilius said:

Thanks, I fixed the load error.
BUT you haven't published it

[Box]

It's on the previous page Tig, not the first post. It's a teaser/beta and the fix worked for me.

[TIG]

So the version in that mid-thread post has been updated - it was not clear...

[function]

I've noticed that this plugin takes a fairly long time to load all the icons at startup. Is there any other negative affects to performance?

[Aerilius]

It has an arbitrary timeout of five seconds. It's not doing much processing, it just needs to be sure that SketchUp has finished loading all other plugins. I wish SketchUp had (or will have) a proper API method for that. When I come back I'll see if it still works reliably wirh a shorter timeout.

[function]

its kind of strange for me. i have something like 4 tool bars, they load one icon at a time, and then on the 5th toolbar i made it loads all 6 instantly .. ::

[Aerilius]

I updated the plugin. It now includes custom buttons.

[Rich O Brien]

Incredible.

[Krisidious]

I can haz all thomthoms in a toolbar?

[Ben Ritter]

Thank you for sharing this with us.

[Krisidious]

does this mean it's time for the Icon Making Challenge?