[Plugin] ToolbarEditor (1.1.2) – updated 08.06.2014

glro · 20 May 2014, 11:15

@lewisee said:

I can't enter code for custom (new) buttons using SketchUp Make 2014. Other wise this is a great extension. Thanks

i can't enter snippets either

su8, win7

Aerilius · 20 May 2014, 13:09

What happens when you can't enter snippets? What do you do and what does not happen?

glro · 20 May 2014, 18:40

@aerilius said:

What happens when you can't enter snippets? What do you do and what does not happen?

nothing happens...

after i fill in the form (name, category, ...), and i choose a file for the icon, it is then impossible for me to type anything in the area below the icon file address

Aerilius · 21 May 2014, 09:28

I cannot reproduce this. For me the webdialog accepts input in all input fields in SU 2014, SU 2013, SU8, WinXP, Win7.

• What version of Internet Explorer do you have installed?
• Does the text area for Ruby code never accept input or only after you selected an icon?
• Can you see that it is a text area (or is it possible that it just has a zero size)?

glro · 21 May 2014, 11:09

@aerilius said:

I cannot reproduce this. For me the webdialog accepts input in all input fields in SU 2014, SU 2013, SU8, WinXP, Win7.

• What version of Internet Explorer do you have installed?
• Does the text area for Ruby code never accept input or only after you selected an icon?
• Can you see that it is a text area (or is it possible that it just has a zero size)?

internet explorer 11
never accepts input
cannot see that it is a text area (screen copy added)

hope it helps

Jim · 7 Jun 2014, 08:14

Same here - no input area for code.

Win 8.1, SU-2014 Pro, IE 11 (never used outside of SketchUp.)

titou · 8 Jun 2014, 08:45

me too, same problem, cannot whrite anything in the text zone

Jim · 8 Jun 2014, 13:31

I know it has probably already been thought about, but it would be incredible to have a command repository where we can browse, install, and share commands...

Maybe a dvcs repo (github) could be used as the repo. What format would be good for command files - json or yaml maybe?

Aerilius · 8 Jun 2014, 16:19

I uploaded a workaround for IE 11's bug (ToolbarEditor 1.1.2).

Currently the plugin writes each snippet to a ruby file (in %APPDATA%) and stores the metadata with the plugin's preferences in the registry.
A json or yaml format would also not be a bad idea. I chose rb because it contains runnable code and I don't need to extract the code from a part of the file (or deal with escaping etc.). The metadata is also written in the comment of the ruby file, but I haven't decided yet to parse it out of the comment again, because there would be many sources of error (or the comment would have to strictly follow a specific syntax.

Jim · 14 Jun 2014, 08:31

Currently the plugin writes each snippet to a ruby file (in %APPDATA%) and stores the metadata with the plugin's preferences in the registry.

Is the numeric part of the filename unique for each user? If so, that makes it difficult to have a way to share commands.

glro · 19 Jun 2014, 09:05

another detail: the toolbar position is not stored when you close sketchup

so you have to move it everytime you open

not really important, but would it be possible to dck the created toolbars as the other native toolbars?

Aerilius · 19 Jun 2014, 19:22

Plugins can not influence the position of the toolbar (they can only tell SketchUp to show/hide a toolbar, and Sketchup remembers the position). Since these toolbars are created with a timeout (after all other plugins have been loaded), there was initially a problem wher the toolbar didn't remember its position. After report it was improved in SU2013 so that SketchUp should remember the position even after timeout. In which SketchUp version does it happen to you?
I have reduced the timeout, maybe that caused the problem?

glro · 20 Jun 2014, 22:00

@aerilius said:

Plugins can not influence the position of the toolbar (they can only tell SketchUp to show/hide a toolbar, and Sketchup remembers the position). Since these toolbars are created with a timeout (after all other plugins have been loaded), there was initially a problem wher the toolbar didn't remember its position. After report it was improved in SU2013 so that SketchUp should remember the position even after timeout. In which SketchUp version does it happen to you?
I have reduced the timeout, maybe that caused the problem?

i use sketchup 8

i shall try version 13 or 14, to check

thank you

keithwins · 23 Jun 2014, 14:33

This would be just what I'm looking for... if I could get it working.

When I open it up (v. 1.1.2 on SU 2014 on Win7), the list of available commands is very limited.

The vast majority of them is from the 1001bits extension I've got installed. Then there are perhaps 20 more. No View menu commands, for example, which is what I wanted.

Speaking for myself and as a relative noob, I think I'd prefer the commands listed in menu order: i.e. Tools/Sandbox/Smoove, but I perhaps I'm putting too much stock in the menus, with which I'm faintly familiar. I'd also love an option to list in different formats, i.e. a nice tight text list that would show about twice as much per page.

This looks awesome, and I can see it's working for other people. I've tried shutting down & restarting SU. I also just uninstalled and reinstalled TE, and an interesting thing happened: it still had about as many non-1001bits commands, but not the same ones! I only know this b/c I saw smoove on there before, and it's not there now. I tried disabling 1001bits, and interestingly enough there aren't any more non-1001bits tools there than before. 25 to be precise. Then I uninstalled TE, reinstalled, and same thing.

Aerilius · 23 Jun 2014, 20:50

SketchUp does not make its menus readable, they can not be accessed or included in custom plugin toolbars. This plugin can only make toolbars for plugin commands (sorry, it got missing from the description in the SCF plugins store, it's still mentioned in the SU extension warehouse).

SketchUp's native commands need to be replicated one by one. You can install LaunchUp, which comes with a lot of copies of SketchUp's native commands.

keithwins · 24 Jun 2014, 13:24

Thanks Aurelius, I don't think I understand, but now I understand that I don't understand. I haven't really looked at creating commands, my level of sophistication extended only to picking something off a list

Box · 24 Jun 2014, 13:27

Do you know you can make custom toolbars natively in 2014?

theviru · 1 Jul 2014, 21:49

Hello,

Im looking to make a button that will add a custom object that I have made. I am currently running SU8 and some one in my company (no longer here) made a button that did this. But I want to move to sketchup 2014 unfortunately I cant seem to figure out how to add this button. I see the box on your toolbar editor that allows you to add in ruby code but I'm not a programmer. I don't know if any one has made a button like this and would be willing to share there ruby code would help out allot.

I dont know if this is important but I also have to be able to move/edit parts of this object once it has been placed.

Aerilius · 2 Jul 2014, 07:29

The old button must have been a plugin, so it has ruby code. Without that ruby code there won't be a button. Could you look up where that plugin was located (installed) in the old SketchUp version (SU8 had the plugins under Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins) and then you could just install it in SketchUp 2014 (under <your_user>/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2014/SketchUp/Plugins).

This plugin is rather for small code snippets (~1-10 lines). Of course one can make such a script that inserts a component, but that depends on what exactly it should do.

theviru · 2 Jul 2014, 16:57

Thanks there seems to be multiple .rb files that have names of the buttons. So if I run them I should get the button thanks for the help.