[Plugin] Toggle Units

RootlessAgrarian

the lines make sense if you have the corresponding folder (toggle_units_icons) in the plugins menu..

plugins menu? or plugins directory (folder)?

that subdir does exist in the plugins directory (as do other subdirs of small images used successfully by other Ruby extensions). can't figure out why the images are not getting associated with the buttons. but hey, the unit switching function works and that's what I needed. I can fool around with the icons later.

CadFather

sorry.. i meant plugins folder of course..

if the path is right the icons should show up

RootlessAgrarian

@cadfather said:

sorry.. i meant plugins folder of course..

if the path is right the icons should show up

as I say I do not speak Ruby, but I used to be extremely literate in Tcl/Tk and the syntax is not completely alien. I have tried various things, even using the full pathname. other .rb scripts are correctly finding their icons w/rel pathname starting at 'plugins', but this one for some reason is not. mysterious! I've looked for some initialisation that might set the default path, etc -- no luck so far. must be a very silly coding error that I can't see because I'm so unfamiliar with Ruby apps.

checked the obvious like protection bits on subdir and images, checked that they really are .pngs, checked that they are not empty files, etc. baffled.

oh well. something to fool with when I've nothing more urgent to do

vidy

Have the same problem here also, the function was working perfectly, but the icon are invisible.. need some advice, please...

thanks,

chrisjk

What versions of Mac OSX are you running? I have Snow Leopard and the icons do show up for me. You might need to check View>Tool Palettes>Toggle Units to see them.

vidy

im using xp sp2, and su 7.1, the tool actually already perfectly functional, just the icon not showed up..
already try to change the address on the script, but it still not working.

watkins

Just tried installing Toggle Units into my SU8 plugin folder, and found that the icons won't show up. Is this a known problem for SU8? If so, does anyone have a fix?

Kind regards,
Bob

TIG

When you extracted the contents of the zip file you should have got a file called toggle_units.rb and a folder called toggle_units_icons which contains 24 png files to make the various buttons.
The file and the folder both go into your Plugins folder.
If you have copied the rb file from v7 into v8 you must also copy the whole folder and its files too...

watkins

Dear All,

Okay, Toggle Units is now working in V8, but only after installing the version posted by 'blajnov' (page 6 of this thread, and near the top).

Kind regards,
Bob

davidlouis

Not wanting to discourage the development of great tools such as this, I can't help wonder why, so far down the line in sketchup development, you can't have one preference for modelling units and a different one for the value readout of say... areas, dimensions etc etc... CAD software has been doing this since day one...

At the moment I model in millimeters and require dimensions and areas in meters... I've used this tool since it pretty much came but why don't the skp developers integrate this into the preferences / model info units interface...???

Either way thanks for a great tool!

Dave

vidy

@watkins said:

Dear All,

Okay, Toggle Units is now working in V8, but only after installing the version posted by 'blajnov' (page 6 of this thread, and near the top).

Kind regards,
Bob

dear bob,
do you have the icon showed up on v.8?

watkins

Dear Vidy,

Yes I do, and I have checked all the functions and they work. It would be very useful if someone could update the first posting with the V8 compatible plugin.

Regards,
Bob

TIG

I have updated the first post in the thread http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=81391#p81391
Please use the new 'bold' version which is v6/7/8... friendly - I left the old one BUT I don't recommend that version at all...

vidy

thanks bob and tig, now it works perfectly

Dave R

TIG,

I just installed the latest version but I am getting the blank toolbar. In looking through the script I see what looks like the path to the PNGs shown as below. The icon folder is called "toggle_units_icons" but I wonder if it or the script should be modified. Or maybe I'm looking in the wrong place and have a different problem.

cmd = UI;;Command.new(Strings["Decimal"]) { toggle_units(5) }
cmd.small_icon = "CD_ICONS/TWEAK/tudec16.png"
cmd.large_icon = "CD_ICONS/TWEAK/tudec24.png"

TIG

@dave r said:

TIG,

I just installed the latest version but I am getting the blank toolbar. In looking through the script I see what looks like the path to the PNGs shown as below. The icon folder is called "toggle_units_icons" but I wonder if it or the script should be modified. Or maybe I'm looking in the wrong place and have a different problem.

cmd = UI;;Command.new(Strings["Decimal"]) { toggle_units(5) }
> cmd.small_icon = "CD_ICONS/TWEAK/tudec16.png"
> cmd.large_icon = "CD_ICONS/TWEAK/tudec24.png"
> 	    
>

You are right - I copied the files over without looking at then [I didn't use this tool at all]
I've now updated the zip http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=81391#p81391 so that it has the correct folder specified for the icons !

Dave R

Thank you, TIG. I'm amazed that I sorted out the problem correctly. I must be learning from watching you.

Matt666

Hi all.
Sorry for my absence, for now I don't often use SU. Thank you TIG to be here...

mag1800

[floatr:2nr8pix2][/floatr:2nr8pix2]Great Plugin Matt. Works great for me. Thank You.

Matt666

Hi all.
Plugin updated with a new tool (Toolbar manager): You can now choose icons you want to display in the toolbar.
Thanks to Thomthom and TIG!

LINK: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=81391#p81391