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    • B Offline
      bytor
      last edited by

      Alex,

      I know what you mean about the Revit Ribbons - but when you get used to where everything is (I still have to look for 4 or 5 items I commonly use) it becomes pretty productive. Something similar would be nice for SU - but I doubt you will see Google adopt such a MS flavor. I have to instruct and often support users @ work on SU, and it drives me crazy looking for toolbars in their perosnalized layouts.

      Dean

      Find the Cost of Freedom.....

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        Panga
        last edited by

        Humm another suggestion...Is that possible to insert a swf file in a webdialog ? I have some skills in AS3 that could allow me to create my own menu with flyouts...And is it possible to hide the window of a webdialog ?

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          thomthom
          last edited by

          @panga said:

          Humm another suggestion...Is that possible to insert a swf file in a webdialog ?

          A Webdialog is just an HTML document. So yes.

          @panga said:

          I have some skills in AS3 that could allow me to create my own menu with flyouts

          You won't be able to make flyouts that goes outside the webdialog window.

          @panga said:

          And is it possible to hide the window of a webdialog ?

          I take it you mean the window frame? That can't be done. ๐Ÿ˜ž

          Thomas Thomassen โ€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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            Panga
            last edited by

            Damn...everything is against us... ๐Ÿ˜›

            EDIT : The better alternative I see, is to do the same thing that Fredo6 did with Tools on surface plugin where a "toolbar" appears at the top of main window (where we draw) with all the tools and options of the plugins...

            This way, we could regroup tools and plugin by categories in order to have less toolbars displayed in SU.

            EDIT : Or maybe doing something like in Blender, some contextual menu giving access to everything...but all those things should be develop by google again...

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            • ken28875K Offline
              ken28875
              last edited by

              I agree with Panga. We need to find a way to have the plugins toolbars stay in place.

              I used a lot of plugins for my work everyday and I keep on adding new ones. So it is very frustrating an annoying to have to put them back in order every time a new plugin is added that messes everything up.

              Another thing too, is the toolbars will go crazy after we minimize the windows and come back to full size.

              Hopefully someone will find a fix to these issues.

              Thanks and have a terrific day!

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                solo
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                ๐Ÿ˜ฒ ๐Ÿ˜ฎ ๐Ÿ˜ฒ ๐Ÿ’š

                Yikes, tooo much, my eyes hurt.

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                  Khai
                  last edited by

                  how hard would it be to create a ruby that creates a single floating toolbar containing all the tools installed in one panel?

                  install a new ruby, run the panel ruby to add the new tool... the panel floating so there's no workspace muckup..

                  just pulling this outta the air so don't take to seriously if it's a bad idea ๐Ÿ˜‰

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                    solo
                    last edited by

                    Or have all toolbars hidden hitting f11 shows them and hides them again?

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                      remus
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                      @khai said:

                      how hard would it be to create a ruby that creates a single floating toolbar containing all the tools installed in one panel?

                      install a new ruby, run the panel ruby to add the new tool... the panel floating so there's no workspace muckup..

                      just pulling this outta the air so don't take to seriously if it's a bad idea ๐Ÿ˜‰

                      I think that one goes in the 'nice in theory but doesnt work in practice' pile. The major flaw that comes to mind is scrambled ruby scripts which cant be modified in any way unless you can get hold of the original file, but then that rather defeats the point of scrambling it.

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                        Panga
                        last edited by

                        I'm becoming crazy...after three days of work under SU, I'm afraid of minimizing any window...whatever the program I'm using, I'm juste thinking in my head "Don't do that you idiot !! You'll have to reorganize all your toolbars !!"...but then I realize that I'm not in SU and I can breathe freely...please Google...do something for me, I'm sick !!

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                          Jim
                          last edited by

                          It's certainly possible to replace most toolbars with a single window. I have taken to using a horrible, hacked-up, hand-coded WebDialog to replace all my Toolbars.

                          304.png

                          I think a4chitect's Launchit has a lot of potential.

                          Hi

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                            dem
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                            It was really annoying. so I make a toolbox with tabs + remake standard panels

                            http://a2.inf.ua/IMG/toolbox.png

                            https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-fjBpssNdQ_w/VMlBZQmmcCI/AAAAAAAACrY/sHsk-BPXWU4/w326-h233-no/toolbox.gif

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                              cadmunkey
                              last edited by

                              @dem said:

                              It was really annoying. so I make a toolbox with tabs + remake standard panels

                              http://a2.inf.ua/IMG/toolbox.png

                              https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-fjBpssNdQ_w/VMlBZQmmcCI/AAAAAAAACrY/sHsk-BPXWU4/w326-h233-no/toolbox.gif

                              Sweet!!! ๐Ÿ‘

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                                slbaumgartner
                                last edited by

                                Pretty slick @dem! Could you say some more about how you did that? Thanks.

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                                  dem
                                  last edited by

                                  @slbaumgartner said:

                                  Pretty slick @dem! Could you say some more about how you did that? Thanks.

                                  I use webdialog with many different scripts, soon I`ll make a little promo, it still have some issues.

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                                    AirWindSolar
                                    last edited by

                                    So, five years later, SU's handling of toolbars still sucks. What exactly is it we're paying for if the devs ignore user issues with the most basic functionality?

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