Su slow to open

[Sir]

i doubt it would make a noticable difference

[thomthom]

V-Ray for SketchUp add a significant delay to SU's statup time. I made a plugin which prevents VfSU from loading at startup and let it be loaded on demand.

There is a possibility that extensions adds significant load time.

[solo]

SU2POV also increases the open time substantially.

[caddict]

that's interesting because i have SU2POV installed.

thom, i like your idea of being able to load scripts as required. is your script specific to v-ray plugin or can it be generalised?

[AdamB]

I'm guessing that these plugins are registering onOpenModel() observers that are doing significant work - which isn't a brilliant engineering decision.

Would be interesting to know what exactly they're doing.

Adam

[thomthom]

@adamb said:

I'm guessing that these plugins are registering onOpenModel() observers that are doing significant work - which isn't a brilliant engineering decision.

Would be interesting to know what exactly they're doing.

Adam

Not V-Ray. The lag is only during the initial load of the plugin, not during creating of new model.

@caddict said:

thom, i like your idea of being able to load scripts as required. is your script specific to v-ray plugin or can it be generalised?

It's really simple. It renames the v-ray loaded from VRayForSketchup.rb to VRayForSketchup.rb.disabled and then adds a menu item that will load VRayForSketchup.rb.disabled on demand.

[remus]

Could you use the extensions window to disable plugins? (if theyre written to reside there, of course.)

[thomthom]

They won't be unloaded until next time you start SU though.

[remus]

Good point, but as long as you turned it off each time you shouldnt have any problems.

[caddict]

it's not really a very serious issue. i was just wondering how much i should restrain myself when it comes to new rubies

[remus]

You should be ok as long as you dont add all of them