Podium 2 beta 2

thomthom

http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=15182&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=60#p208998

Since then, I have found the solution to this problem which was been discussed at length here. The problem is related to the Sketchup.find_support_file("Plugins") method which will not return the HD subfolder if there exists a Users plugins subfolder

sepo

OK I have reported all of this back. I will inform you of the outcome. Thanks.

thomthom

jeff hammond

@sepo said:

Now, I am not saying anything with certainity but could it be that there is also some other plugin which contributes to this problem.

there are a few different things that can be 'blamed' for this..

SU allows for the 2nd plugin folder to come into play to begin with.
plugin developers using different methods (as this problem affects only some plugins.. not all)
probably some other things..

podium aside, i can easily duplicate this problem simply by creating an empty plugin folder at the user level..

here's a quick video showing:

SU open with a few of the 'trouble' rubys displayed in the drawing area
navigating to user/library/application support/google sketchup 7/sketchup then creating a new plugins folder there.
quitting SU then relaunching
the rubys are now either broken, missing icons, or not there at all
deleting the the plugin folder at the user level then quitting/relaunching SU
all is fine again.

this is basically what the podium installer does.. the problem isn't with podium itself (which runs great on macs).. it's the creation of the user level plugin folder.

[flash=640,385:b7oo5qoy]http://www.youtube.com/v/9nvp81zhq6M&hl=en_US&fs=1&[/flash:b7oo5qoy]

but yeah, thanks for looking into this! at the very least, you'll probably have ~10 mac users reconsidering purchasing podium

wind-borne

@sepo said:

I was told that we had only one official report of problem in more than thousands of registered Mac Podium users.

WOW, I feel special, I have my stream of emails to Dave. I am the only one to report

Thanks for stirring up the memories with your video Jeff

thomthom

Here's another odd finding related to Podium: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=15182&start=75#p226879

toxicvoxel

How can there be any problems if it was written in C?!

@unknownuser said:

if you want to do simple things go with "simple" languages but after running the simple examples you will have problems that need knowledge of the things that run under the hood.

remus

Sorry, whats that got to do with the podium beta? im confused...

Gaieus

@remus said:

Sorry, whats that got to do with the podium beta? im confused...

Thanks remus.

So it's not just me...

sepo

Honestly, this whole thread was kind of a disaster.

Gaieus

Never mind, sid. At least it has been bumped ever since and probably many people visited Podium.

I hope Thom's and others' contributions to spot any possible glitch will be helpful however. I do not know because I am on a PC.

sepo

I have passed the details ...so it is out of my hands.