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    • Bob JamesB Offline
      Bob James
      last edited by

      With all of the really great new plugins, and my old favorites, my Plugins menu has gotten out of hand. Some plugins I use every day, so no problem. But others I need them when I need them (if you get my line of thought 😉 ). So, it would be really valuable to have some way of organizing the Plugin menu with user defined categories.

      Can this be done?

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      • R Offline
        remus
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        I think jim has written a ruby that lets you make a customisable toolbar, not sure how much control you get though.

        edit: seems it only supports native sketchup buttons, so thats that plan foiled.

        http://remusrendering.wordpress.com/

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        • R Offline
          remus
          last edited by

          And the plugin itself: http://sketchuptips.blogspot.com/2008/06/custom-toolbars-release-08-06-01.html

          http://remusrendering.wordpress.com/

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          • pilouP Offline
            pilou
            last edited by

            The curious thing is that the Plugins Menu can be scroll when plugs over pass the page but alas for me the scrolling is not effective, little black triangle don't appear 😮
            Have you some idea for this boring problem?

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            • D Offline
              Daniel S
              last edited by

              A good idea will be to have a webdialog and something like a filter to search the plugin.

              Then with a double click execute the ruby.

              Here I make a simulation:

              SUfilter.gif
              Daniel S

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              • H Offline
                haynesc
                last edited by

                thats perfect !! this or something similar is most needed !

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                • BurkhardB Offline
                  Burkhard
                  last edited by

                  Below could be a field for selecting toolbars show/hide. Not all are needed everytime.

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

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                  • Chris FullmerC Offline
                    Chris Fullmer
                    last edited by

                    Rick has a script that lets you put organize your plugins folder into sub folder and then each sub folfer becomes a sub-menu of your plugins folder and all scripts in that folder are listed in that submenu. It can be very helpful for organizing into groups. Script is found here:

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                    (www.smustard.com)

                    And I think he is working on a new and improved one because there is currently a lot of talk about doing something to standardize scripts and their origanizaion.

                    And I noticed that his script is apparently only for windows currently......

                    Chris

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                    All my Plugins I've written

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                    • Bob JamesB Offline
                      Bob James
                      last edited by

                      Super 😍
                      Many thanks, Chris. Just what I was looking for.

                      I've purchased and installed it on my PC.
                      I'm primarily a Mac user, but I have SU7 for both Mac and PC.

                      Rick: Looking forward to the Mac version 👍

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                      • Chris FullmerC Offline
                        Chris Fullmer
                        last edited by

                        @unknownuser said:

                        I've purchased and installed it on my PC.

                        Sweet, I'll be waiting on my commision check 🤣

                        Chris

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                        • Bob JamesB Offline
                          Bob James
                          last edited by

                          Now if I could just get it to work 😞

                          File Organizer.rb is in the Plugins folder but I get the error message: "Error Loading File Organizer.rb"

                          Using SU7 version 7.0.10247


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                          • Chris FullmerC Offline
                            Chris Fullmer
                            last edited by

                            Hmm, what does it say below that? THat is where the error messages are that help debug the problem.

                            Chris

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                            • Bob JamesB Offline
                              Bob James
                              last edited by

                              Chris,

                              Here's the whole error statement.


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                                RickW
                                last edited by

                                This is somewhat difficult to explain. There may be some folders in your Plugins folder that don't need to have their contents loaded by Organizer (Podium and Subsmooth are two that come to mind) - and in fact, trying to load their contents can cause problems (as you have experienced). Fortunately, there's a solution for that.

                                The .zip included a file called SmustardOrganizerExcludeFolders.txt. Open that and add to it any folder names that you didn't create as part of your organizing efforts. I suspect you may have a folder that includes "IDX" in its name. You would add that name to the .txt file. That will prevent Organzier from trying to load any ruby files in that folder and will thus prevent the error messages.

                                If you still have problems, let me know.

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

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                                • Bob JamesB Offline
                                  Bob James
                                  last edited by

                                  I put IDXRenditioner.bundle in the SmustardOrganizerExcludeFolders.txt file, but I still get the same error.
                                  What's really strange is that IDXRenditioner.bundle is a Mac file for IDXRenditioner and is not, and should not be, in the PC Plugins folder. 😒

                                  I've reloaded IDX Renditioner so I know it's the latest PC version 1.1.5.78

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                                  • jeff hammondJ Offline
                                    jeff hammond
                                    last edited by

                                    @daniel s said:

                                    A good idea will be to have a webdialog and something like a filter to search the plugin.

                                    Then with a double click execute the ruby.

                                    Here I make a simulation:

                                    this one isn't a simulation:

                                    http://homepage.mac.com/jeffhammond/.Public/Find.mov

                                    [edit] just in case the movie isn't clear as day: you can either choose the tool using that method or it will simply show you where it's at.

                                    dotdotdot

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                                    • jeff hammondJ Offline
                                      jeff hammond
                                      last edited by

                                      @burkhard said:

                                      Below could be a field for selecting toolbars show/hide. Not all are needed everytime.

                                      oh yeah.. it can do that too.

                                      http://homepage.mac.com/jeffhammond/.Public/Find_that_too.mov

                                      [note kerkythea tool bar next to the standard tool bar]

                                      [edit].... and speaking of kerkythea... i'll try this on windows via x11... 😄

                                      http://homepage.mac.com/jeffhammond/.Public/Benchmark.mov

                                      .

                                      dotdotdot

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                                      • Bob JamesB Offline
                                        Bob James
                                        last edited by

                                        Jeff,

                                        Where can this be found for download/purchase?

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                                        • jeff hammondJ Offline
                                          jeff hammond
                                          last edited by

                                          @unknownuser said:

                                          Jeff,

                                          Where can this be found for download/purchase?

                                          you can buy it here..

                                          Link Preview Image
                                          Apple

                                          Our broadest design update ever, a more helpful Apple Intelligence, and updates for iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26, watchOS 26, and visionOS 26.

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                                          Apple (www.apple.com)

                                          just spend a few grand on their hardware and they'll throw the feature in for free. 😄

                                          it's built into leopard.. it works with all apps... i see you also have a mac so try it out on there.

                                          certain apps don't get that big of an advantage (photoshop for instance: the clone stamp tool is only in a tool bar and you can't navigate the menus to get to it so it won't show up in the search).. it works really well with sketchup however because all of the tools/actions can be found via the menus.

                                          it's only searching the menus items and help files..

                                          dotdotdot

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                                          • R Offline
                                            RickW
                                            last edited by

                                            @unknownuser said:

                                            I put IDXRenditioner.bundle in the file, but I still get the same error.
                                            What's really strange is that IDXRenditioner.bundle is a Mac file for IDXRenditioner and is not, and should not be, in the PC Plugins folder. 😒

                                            I've reloaded IDX Renditioner so I know it's the latest PC version 1.1.5.78

                                            The "SmustardOrganizerExcludeFolders.txt" file should only contain the names of subfolders in the Plugins folder, not specific files.

                                            Please contact me at Smustard, as there are a few specific things I'd like you to try.

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

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