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    • J Offline
      Jim
      last edited by

      What about using a WebDialog? The thought has been brewing in the back of my mind for awhile about a WebDialog based Add-In Manager.

      Have a look at this menu example for a possible idea: http://www.zzee.com/art-html-listing/samples/apache/jsmenuVer.html

      Edit: On second thought, this might not work so well.

      What you want to do is difficult, otherwise it'd be done already 😄

      Hi

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        azuby
        last edited by

        Thanks for the idea. It would be possible using webdialogs for extensions. The HTML source needs to be auto-genereated in this case - that's not a big deal. But the disadvantage of this is, that by using a webdialog-extensionmanager two types of extensions will be create: the regular ones for the Sketchup menus and the other ones for the webdialog. I guess, a lot of extensionmanager-hacking could start when using webdialogs 😉

        Look the first link I posted - a nearly working version of the extensionmanager is ready. The only big problem is the described one.

        azuby

        *error initus :: Blocks | CurrentDate | d/Code | extensionmanager | FFlipper | HideEdges | MeasuredArea | ModelHistory | PluginsHelp | PronButton | SAWSO | SCP | SU²CATT

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          azuby
          last edited by

          I've added an example on how easy it is to write/reconstruct Ruby Sketchup extension to use with the extensionmanager. For that I have modified a copy of the Dome script (dome.rb) - actually documented in German (in a PDF), but the code (in PDF an .rb files) should be readable for any extension developer.

          You can download it under the extensionmanager category on http://errorinitus.de/?sect=software

          If the extensionmanager becomes older, there maybe is the work to define categories and sub-categories the extension should be set to. Actually I use the categories from the organizer.rb.

          azuby

          *error initus :: Blocks | CurrentDate | d/Code | extensionmanager | FFlipper | HideEdges | MeasuredArea | ModelHistory | PluginsHelp | PronButton | SAWSO | SCP | SU²CATT

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          • R Offline
            RickW
            last edited by

            I wrote a pair of ruby scripts that automatically rewrote the menu section of every script in the plugins folder (except for the utility scripts from SU) and then allowed users to organize their scripts into subfolders. It was temporarily available at http://www.smustard.com

            One downfall was that double-clicking a file in the browser caused the scripts to not load. There might be a way around that now.

            Another problem was that a few scripts couldn't be rewritten by the rewrite script because of strange formatting by the authors.

            RickW
            [www.smustard.com](http://www.smustard.com)

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              azuby
              last edited by

              Hi Rick,

              I think you're talking about the organizer.rb also Burkhard supported? I find it very useful. My idea was constistency in the Plugins menu of all users. That had to be done by hand, because @Last/Google does not provide a good Plugin mechanism. Also organizer.rb works with a categorization like my approach.

              Maybe the Google guys are so nice adding a "Menu#submenus[]" or "Menu#parent" to the Menu class. That would simplify the problem. Than the only thing to manage would be to tetermine the categories and subcategories, the rest works automatically (with internationalization 😄 ). Do you know the person I have to contact for this request?

              We would have some advantages of using a kind of my approach:

              • consistency
              • no dublicates in the menus
              • Ruby programmers can write their code with own code style
              • developing extensions gets more simple
              • internationalization
              • Ruby extensions build "the old way" also would work
              • real Sketchup extensions, which you can switch on and off in the preferences

              azuby

              *error initus :: Blocks | CurrentDate | d/Code | extensionmanager | FFlipper | HideEdges | MeasuredArea | ModelHistory | PluginsHelp | PronButton | SAWSO | SCP | SU²CATT

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                Burkhard
                last edited by

                @Rick
                you've found a solution running the script with SU6?
                Btw. where on smustard is it? There is no organizer script with that name.

                [http://www.ia-plus.de(http://www.ia-plus.de)]

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                • R Offline
                  RickW
                  last edited by

                  Burkhard,

                  Yes, I fixed it last night and just sent it to you. There were a few reasons (like I mentioned above) that I took it off of Smustard, but am considering putting it back up.

                  RickW
                  [www.smustard.com](http://www.smustard.com)

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                    juju
                    last edited by

                    RickW, please let us know here at the forum if / when you make the revised script available as well as where.

                    Save the Earth, it's the only planet with chocolate.

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                      RickW
                      last edited by

                      Juju,

                      Will do 😄

                      RickW
                      [www.smustard.com](http://www.smustard.com)

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                      • J Offline
                        Jim
                        last edited by

                        azuby,

                        I came up with this code. It stores the menu object in a Hash on creation. But it doesn't work for the reasons you stated.

                        
                        class Sketchup;;Menu
                           @@submenus = {}
                           alias ;old_add_submenu ;add_submenu
                           def add_submenu(name)
                              @@submenus[name] = old_add_submenu(name)
                           end
                           def self.submenus
                              @@submenus
                           end
                        end
                        
                        

                        Well, it builds the hash correctly, and you can access the sub menus by name:

                        
                        Sketchup;;Menu.submenus["SomeName"].add_item("Say Hi") { UI.messagebox("Hi!") }
                        
                        

                        The above example does not work. It give no error, but it doesn't add the menu item either. Too bad as it would then be dead simple to hijack the add_submenu and add_item methods to create the menu tree, and no script would need changed to fit into a certain category.

                        Hi

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                          azuby
                          last edited by

                          Yes Jim, I know that. If you go into the sources of the extensionmanager (mentioned in the first posting, first link - don't panic allthough it's a german website 😉 ), it is already done - a bit more complicated, because you have to remember the submenus for their parent menu, not all in the Menu object (you could have two "Preferences" menus coming from twot extensions). Thank you very much for verifying my problem.

                          azuby

                          *error initus :: Blocks | CurrentDate | d/Code | extensionmanager | FFlipper | HideEdges | MeasuredArea | ModelHistory | PluginsHelp | PronButton | SAWSO | SCP | SU²CATT

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                            azuby
                            last edited by

                            Isn't this strange:

                            UI.menu().add_submenu '(none)'
                            #<Sketchup;;Menu;0x1fba478>  # => '(none)' in Plugins
                            UI.menu("Plugouts").add_submenu 'Plugouts'
                            #<Sketchup;;Menu;0xfbef4c0>  # => 'Plugouts' in Plugins
                            UI.menu("P").add_submenu 'P'
                            #<Sketchup;;Menu;0xfba8c90> # => 'P' in Plugins
                            UI.menu("p").add_submenu 'p'
                            #<Sketchup;;Menu;0x102da520> # => 'p' in Plugins
                            UI.menu("pong").add_submenu 'pong'
                            #<Sketchup;;Menu;0x102abb70>  # => 'pong' in Plugins
                            UI.menu("Olugins").add_submenu 'Olugins'
                            Exception `ArgumentError' at (eval);475 - Unknown menu olugins
                            Exception `ArgumentError' at (eval);475 - (eval);475;in `menu'; Unknown menu olugins
                            Error; #<ArgumentError; (eval);475;in `menu'; Unknown menu olugins>
                            (eval);475
                            UI.menu("asdf").add_submenu 'asdf'
                            Exception `ArgumentError' at (eval);475 - Unknown menu asdf
                            Exception `ArgumentError' at (eval);475 - (eval);475;in `menu'; Unknown menu asdf
                            Error; #<ArgumentError; (eval);475;in `menu'; Unknown menu asdf>
                            (eval);475
                            

                            azuby

                            *error initus :: Blocks | CurrentDate | d/Code | extensionmanager | FFlipper | HideEdges | MeasuredArea | ModelHistory | PluginsHelp | PronButton | SAWSO | SCP | SU²CATT

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                            • J Offline
                              Jim
                              last edited by

                              
                              ("a".."z").each { |l| 
                              begin
                              print "Trying #{l};"
                              UI.menu(l).add_submenu('jim')
                              puts "OK"
                              rescue
                              puts "Error on #{l}."
                              end
                              }
                              
                              

                              I don't like the "code" font, by the way; it's hard to read.

                              Hi

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