Forgotten plugins
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Ever gone down your list of plug-ins and wondered "what's this one for" or looked for a plug-in that you do not use often but forgot what it's called?
Wouldn't it be great to have some sort of way to right click and select "see sample" and it either opens a web-page with a small video showing it in action or even a description.
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oh yeah baby. I got about 700 plugins in various files.
I estimate that I use about 6 of them.
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@solo said:
Ever gone down your list of plugins and wondered "what's this one for" or looked for a plugin that you do not use often but forgot what it's called?
Would'nt it be great to have some sort of way to right click and select "see sample" and it either opens a webpage with a small video showing it in action or even a discription.
Pete,
I know exactly what you mean, and I recall seeing this exact solution but it is lost in space somewhere. Some time ago one of the forum's elite made GIF's of handfull of plugins and other functions, which I thought was a cool idea, but was a lot of work to do I guess. I remember commenting on the thread but haven't been able find it in my post archives. Maybe someones memory will be jogged- my ageing graycells have gotten this far, hopefully there is a young whipersnapper out there that will remember
I will continue to look. I thought it was a good idea back then but it slipped through the cracks. -
Jim, its a "sticky" thread in this forum - meaning it is always at the top of the thread list. It is called "Must Have Ruby Plugins - Visual Index" by DanielS. http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=16909
It is possible to make plugins do this. Any plugin can make content and add it to the "Instructor" (that I never use
). But theoretically, if plugins added that animated gif to their instructor content, you could have the instructor open while modeling, then activate any plugin, and it would show that instructor contect for that plugin. Its just a matter of getting the authors to make the instructor content, and of course it would require the user rememebering to check the instructor, since I never have mine open.I recently started putting tutorials on youtube for my plugins. And I have a YouTube menu item that gives links to the youtube videos for those plugins. My goal would be to have videos on youtube for everyone one of my plugins. But that is a lofty goal at this point.
Chris
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Chris -(whippersnapper)-
thank you I Just found it again - never thought to look at the sticky!I can see that it would be a lot of work, and would probably get the most use on the more obscure or not often used tool/plugins, but would be handy especially for intermittent users like me with big time gaps between use.
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@chris fullmer said:
Jim, its a "sticky" thread in this forum - meaning it is always at the top of the thread list. It is called "Must Have Ruby Plugins - Visual Index" by DanielS. http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=16909
It is possible to make plugins do this. Any plugin can make content and add it to the "Instructor" (that I never use
). But theoretically, if plugins added that animated gif to their instructor content, you could have the instructor open while modeling, then activate any plugin, and it would show that instructor contect for that plugin. Its just a matter of getting the authors to make the instructor content, and of course it would require the user rememebering to check the instructor, since I never have mine open.I recently started putting tutorials on youtube for my plugins. And I have a YouTube menu item that gives links to the youtube videos for those plugins. My goal would be to have videos on youtube for everyone one of my plugins. But that is a lofty goal at this point.
Chris
that could be something that a small team could do... going through the various plugins and copying over information into the instructor for each one. lotta work...
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or maybe a thread here called 'what the heck is this for?'
i'll start.. i've been lugging this around in my plugin folders for a while now and have no idea what it's for..
config-thumb.jpg
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Yikes, thats a good one Jeff.....I have no clue what its for.
Chris
PS I finally went out and bought a new headset with microphone - so I can make my videos again! woohoo
Well, I'm excited. Maybe I'll try to put it to good use tonight and learn how to add content to the instructor. -
sometimes i forget i can search things on my computer.. ha.
the only file i have that mentions 'config-thumb.jpg' is configurator.js which is something to do with dynamic components.. on mac it's located at
....sketchup 8/ SketchUp/ DynamicComponents/ jsi'm now wondering if it's still in a fresh install or if i've just been continuing to keep some early dynamic components leftovers.
does anyone else have that jpg in their plugin folder?
the java script where it's mentioned looks like
@unknownuser said:
value = comp.getAttributeValue(root, 'imageurl');
if (su.notEmpty(value)) {
// If the image path is just a filename (no folders) then append the
// local skp path to try for a local load.
if (value.indexOf('\') == -1 && value.indexOf('/') == -1) {
value = localPath + value;
}
} else {
value = '../../../plugins/config-thumb.jpg?' + Math.random();
}arr.length = 0;
arr.push('<img id="thumbnail" src="', value, '" alt="',
su.translateString('Component'), '" class="config-thumb');
if (cfg.$single == false) {
arr.push('-multiselect');
}
arr.push('"/>');
su.setContent('config-image', arr.join(''));// This checks to see if the image loads. If there is a load error, then
// we will set the path of our image to the default thumb path.
img = new Image;
img.onerror = function() {
$('thumbnail').src = '../../../plugins/config-thumb.jpg?' +
Math.random();
};
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Hi,
I think some time about it, make me an Excel sheet with a brief description of the scripts which i have in my Plugins folder. But then I'm usually too lazy to copy the contents of the menus from the screen.
Is there any way to get the content of the plug-in menus or tool menu in the same order as it appears at the screen as a text file.
Would it be possible with a Ruby script?
Charly
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@solo said:
Ever gone down your list of plug-ins and wondered "what's this one for" or looked for a plug-in that you do not use often but forgot what it's called?
my "solution" to this problem was to create a word document which lists the name of the plugin, what it does and the name of the author. of course, it is far from finished at this stage but every now and then I enter new ones to the list.
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sigh - we need a plugin manager so badly...
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It would be nice if the name of the plugin had some relationship to the menu text. I have plugins that have some mystery menu text, which has not relationship to the actual plugin name. Also, I would like to see, some hint in encrypted scripts to give where to expect the plugin is to be accessed. Like "CM" for context menu, or "PM" for plugin, or "TM" for tool menu. On scripts that I can modify, I try and change the name to follow the above rules.
Hey, I am not trying to "poke in the eye", the vary generous script writers. However, Sketchup has become quite hard to master with scripts that are not very helpful in their description or function.
Not sure why the script writers can not come up with a standard way to script the following, a naming standard, a menu standard, a file loaded standard and etc, and then the author could list his new script as following the above guidelines.
Oh well thoughts from a person that cannot script. However, I am trying to learn.
Again thanks to all the script writers.
Ken
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Quoting Earthmover:
"Yes! Or bigger monitors!"only now? I was saying that way back at Windows 98.
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Charly and edson. If only your system could be automated. Maybe it would be possible to have some sort of description manager script that would take a short description each rb. maker puts inside the plugin and add to a document like a spreadsheet. Each time you download an rb. or run the script it updates your ruby descriptions, which could have links. This would be outside of SU I guess, not a real manager.
(Not a programmer myself)
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