WebDialog Sub Forum? (Poll added)
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I changed from a no to yes also with this discussion going the way it is. I would also vote to hide citygen and skx, but leave web dialogs unhidden I suppose.
And a complete forum or subforum for just plugins is interesting, and I like it. Is it supposed to include requests also? Or just posted plugins? I would guess it should hold plugins and requests?
And how is that forum different than the extesnions forum? I still don't understand the purpose of that forum other than to remove some of the larger scripts from the ruby forum....
Chris
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@chris fullmer said:
And how is that forum different than the extesnions forum? I still don't understand the purpose of that forum other than to remove some of the larger scripts from the ruby forum....
Extension is stuff like Render applications and such that hook into SU. Like V-Ray, it's not a ruby, other than it uses Ruby to bridge the communication between SU and VRay. Any discussions related to that would be in regards to rendering, which isn't ver interesting in the ruby forum.
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We did a similar split at Smustard - we have the Plugins forum for the user issues and the SketchUp Ruby forum for the developer issues.
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I hope nobody minds me having a third shot at promoting a full WebDialog forum. WebDialogs use Ruby code to work Sketchup's display or to extract re-usable information. So WebDialogs obviously are part of Ruby discussions, but they also have strong relationships with all the other forums simply because of the linking capabilities of the World Wide Web. We need to explore this in a dedicated forum that can touch the others but not be obscured by one or more of them.
Thank you,
Chris
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I have voted 'yes'. I think that WebDialogs issues should be addressed and it would be much better to keep all related stuff in the Ruby Discussions/sub-forum.
Just a side-note. I have recently invested my time in learning WxSU (WxRuby) and in my opinion it is excellent. It is pure Ruby and works well. It is a solution for me.
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Here's a little more ...
@unknownuser said:This is a good point. On one hand, you could argue that WebDialogs are the answer to complex UI inside SU, but in practice I think it's hard to find developers who are experts at ruby AND html AND javascript, which is largely what's needed to create solid UI inside a webdialog.
If people have seen any UI APIs that are worth looking at as a potential model for how we could extend Ruby UI support, please let me know.
I think there is evidence now that there are developers willing to collaborate to help produce such a model.
The quote is from this post.
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I really don't know anything about webdialogs, but placing them in a more localized and searchable area sounds like a good idea.
I must ask though, would this be like the woodworker's specific area? I'd hate to think that something useful would be brought up in the WD forum and have it be inaccessible/unsearched by the regular forum login.
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@jim said:
Do we need another sub-forum just for webdialogs?
I vote:
%(#006000)[**YES**]%(#000000)[Developers Forum]%(#BF0000)[**>**]%(#000000)[**WebDialog** subforum] %(#006000)[**YES**]%(#000000)[Developers Forum]%(#BF0000)[**>**]%(#000000)[**WxSU** subforum] -
And... can the Webdialog topic threads be cloned into the new subforum ??
EDIT: grafted ??
Dang .. nevermind, this is a VERY old thread..
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@ webdialog votes: Yes!I have in fact been using sketchup's "UI::WebDialog.new()"frequently.
The Attachment below is a webdialog that contains easy-to-access tools. Contains weld, delete complanar edges, makeface, and more.Just make sure 'ToolsInDialog.rb'(file) and 'stuff'(folder) are in "Plugins".It may have errors, but it is being checked.
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