Windows: Moving Floating Toolbars

Jim

Seems reminiscent of the past Jim ... at least the basic idea ... I remember you felt SU menus could be improved in this way ... maybe more

Although we can recreate the menus and dialogs to some extent, there are enough settings which are missing from the API to make the effort frustrating - regardless of how the settings are presented to the user.

Jim

As do I.

Dan Rathbun

@4dhans said:

Just have the DIALOG be the toolbar.

It's JUST not that simple. We know how to make WebDialogs. The workflow of making a webdialog takes alot longer than a toolbar.

We really need the native SU menu and toolbar classes updated.

But yes.. there are folks who like a "toolpanel" such as you demo in your post. But that is not what we are talking about, and is not a solution to missing methods and settings for native UI objects.

But thanks for sharing you nifty "toolpanel" example ... some users may like it.

EDIT: Yours is nice also, Jim.

Jim

@dan rathbun said:

We really need the native SU menu and toolbar classes updated.

Well, we've asked, and Google won't as a rule comment on the future, so just move forward with what we have.

@dan rathbun said:

EDIT: Yours is nice also, Jim.

thanks.

4dHans

Like Dan R. Said
@unknownuser said:

Just have the DIALOG be the toolbar.
Scripts by various people. Here is an example below:

How It Looks

Tools In A Dialog

4dHans

@dan rathbun said:

@4dhans said:

Just have the DIALOG be the toolbar.

It's JUST not that simple. We know how to make WebDialogs. The workflow of making a webdialog takes alot longer than a toolbar.

We really need the native SU menu and toolbar classes updated.

But yes.. there are folks who like a "toolpanel" such as you demo in your post. But that is not what we are talking about, and is not a solution to missing methods and settings for native UI objects.

But thanks for sharing you nifty "toolpanel" example ... some users may like it.

EDIT: Yours is nice also, Jim.
Oh. Just a little confused about the topic. « »

Jim

Looks like you might be able to send the Toolbar a message via win32api and make it borderless, get the position, and line them up.

thomthom

There's some pretty neat things one can do with the Win32API. One can even dock windows to the SU window.
There was a guy here that posted images where he'd docked the tool windows to SU's viewport sides.

But unfortunately he has not returned with any working samples.
I was thinking it'd be cool to dock webdialogs. Or make them into Toolwindows.

Krisidious

@jim said:

Looks like you might be able to send the Toolbar a message via win32api and make it borderless, get the position, and line them up.

I want sum o dat...

Aerilius

Please, if you find out, that would be great!
Some floating dialogs randomly stick to the cursor and follow the cursor over the screen. If I could dock those dialogs to the viewport sides, maybe I could get rid of that behaviour.

Jim

One problem is that some of the floating toolbars do not remember their shape after re-starting Sketchup. Using the new "Save Toolbar Positions" does not help, and I haven't figured how to resize them.