TIG Text tag tool

robint

Help pls - this seems such a useful little tool but it behaves badly on my 2017make SU version. W11 modern Acer PC 8gig Ram etc

Why does it stutter when trying to place text - spinning wheel goes for a minute of more as it seems to struggle to complete a simple word tag?

When I did ca a dozen tags eventually it got so slow as to become unusable and it kept freezing (grey out the screen and shutting the program. When I reloaded from the task bar it carried on spinning, I couldnt get out of the cross icon move tool and eventually had to close the prog completely and restart.

Whats happening, What am I doing wrong?

IMHO this could be a really useful tool

robint

Re: [Plugin] TextTags v1.4 https://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=TextTag

Abrilliant little Plugin but sadly after half dozen small txt lables it stops works and crashed SU I have SU 2017 make. This makes it unusable . Anyway to fix it? It seems to give SU a hard time and takes ages to position a simple tag like "A". I have it on my layer 0 but it wants to make its own layer "label text" - maybe thats the problem

Text on SU is a real PIG.

I have to finish my diags and port over to Photoshop to do text and labelling to get a reasonable result. The other Flat txt tool produces a very bad pixelated txt result on an A4 diag - unusable

Tig you are a legend in the SU world. Ive been with SU since 2008. It was revolutionary back then and moved me into 3D (from Acad 14 2D)

Rich O Brien

Just adding @TIG so he sees the thread

TIG

@robint

It's been 11 years since I wrote it.
As far as I know it works with all SketchUp versions currently available.
I've had no reports of issues with v2017.
However, I just tried it in v2017 and it was very slow and eventually SketchUp quit, with no error messages.

I'll look at it but I can't promise a fix, it is v-e-r-y old...

robint

@TIG Oh great @TIG you got the same problem. As we all know text in SU is a PIG. Your little Plugin had such promise. There is nothing to come near it. A CAD drawing you cant put text on - how did they get away with that - I was so mesmerised by my entry into 3D modelling.
Does the latest $$$$ SU version address this glaring deficiency?

IMHO, look at it again and re float it with some goodies eg your cant put much text in it - certainly cant do a paragraph two line or more. But Labels and tags would be very useful. I'd be happy to pay for something that worked properly and didnt do horrible thing to SU engine - something there it clearly doesnt like with its waiting and spinning wheels?

Cheers Tig

TIG

@robint

I made some tweaks and now it works almost too fast in newer SketchUp versions !
But in v2017 it is still quite slow...

I'll sleep on it and look at again tomorrow...

robint

@robint Further test - real mystery

I put in some text on a blank page with TExt Tag default settings

first 26 chars a thru z from the keyboard - it went into spinning mode and froze SU so I left it running and it took 8 mins to complete. Not a very happy result

BUT then

I did it again, same setting with just a single char "A" and shock horror it popped up straight away no delay WOT???????????

So I did a longer tag with 6 chars same result - instant display ???????????

Then a short sentence same result???????????

What has happened? If only it behaved like that? I dont know what I have done

Anyone know? will do some more testing 2mrw I am just too gobsmacked just now

robint

@robint update
I saved my test page and restarted SU

tried to do same as above and it reverted to it faulty spinning behaviour - so it didnt save whatever happened to make it work

I have to wait up to a minute or more to place 1 char tag

even a repeat tag is the same time

I give up , cant do anymore here @TIG

robint

@robint Well I dont know if I speak too soon, but I had a moment
I found V8 my old friend before I was persuaded to 2016+ bad move
I remember V8 many years ago as rock solid and it loads into W11 AFAIK so far.

But Im blown away - Text tag loads straight in and blasts text straight onto a flat plane, no spinning wheel, no grief?
and I loaded (after saved down to v8) a complex scheme that was noticeably lagging in 2017 was it blink fast in V8

Why did I ever leave? Dont understand the wonderful works of the wheel barrow but do I need to know

Cheers @TIG

Robin

Ps this might apply to a lot of extensions that dont work properly in 2017?

eg See if I can draw a red line on another layer work for 2mrw

robint

yes I spoke too soon, loading extensions into V8 may be tricky as they may be for a later version. I got the dreaded bug splat which locks you out badly if you get caught. reinstallting v* doesnt help as evils are still lurking and have to be removed. I found some rogue etxensions I had wantonly installed. I had to dig in an removed the rbzs before I could get V8 up running again - that was a scary momemnt. Google installer has an auto update checker. This needs to be disabled somehow or you may get another unpleasant surprise. I dont trust these big corps. They want to clickbait you into a subscription or they may sabotage your freebie make.

Anyone know how to disable updates on v8 (with W11) @TIG