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    [Plugin] !AdditionalPluginFolders - v5.4a - 27 Sep 20

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    • fredo6F Offline
      fredo6
      last edited by

      @thomthom said:

      (looking at your screenshot, why does your libfredo take 2.5 seconds to load?)

      This is the time to load LibFredo6 but also all of my scripts (FredoScale, etc...). If you install LibFredo6 4.0, you'll get details in the Performance dialog box.

      My scripts are very verbose, but what I found out is that most time is taken in creating the toolbars, rather than loading ruby files.

      Fred

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      • thomthomT Offline
        thomthom
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        So creating toolbars are a heavy penalty?
        I've recently started to profile my plugins, I get the last load time as well as the average. Trying to work out which ones loads slower and why.
        Toolbars are a good clue.

        Have you noticed if it's building the toolbar or actually displaying it that consumes time?

        Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
        List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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        • fredo6F Offline
          fredo6
          last edited by

          @thomthom said:

          Have you noticed if it's building the toolbar or actually displaying it that consumes time?

          I think the toolbars are displayed after the whole load sequence. I infer this from the fact that when you have an error in one script, you get an error message box, and you can observe that the SU toolbar is not yet updated.

          On my PC with Windows 7, I get very fast load times, including for Toolbar creation. On XP, it is much slower, but still around 2 seconds for all my plugins

          Fredo

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            Ben Ritter
            last edited by

            Thank you so much.

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            • P Offline
              philkrantz
              last edited by

              I really need help. I've spent hours today trying to get this plugin to install. I even tried deleting sketchup completely and downloaded it again. Using mac os x 10.5 with sketch up 8. I need the plugin "round corners" I never successfully gotten a plugin to work and tried every step over and over. Could someone with a mac post screen shots of every step need to download a plugin. I know that sounds dumb, but I've exhausted all other attempts.

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              • fredo6F Offline
                fredo6
                last edited by

                @philkrantz said:

                I really need help. I've spent hours today trying to get this plugin to install. I even tried deleting sketchup completely and downloaded it again. Using mac os x 10.5 with sketch up 8. I need the plugin "round corners" I never successfully gotten a plugin to work and tried every step over and over. Could someone with a mac post screen shots of every step need to download a plugin. I know that sounds dumb, but I've exhausted all other attempts.

                Just to be clear:

                1. you must put 000_AdditionelPluginFolders.rb in the Sketchup Plugins directory (so typically C:\Program Files\Google\Google SketchUp 8\Plugins)
                2. If you define an additional folder and you wish to install my plugins there, make sure that LibFredo6_Dir_40, LibFredo6.rb and the folder of my plgins (line ROUNDCORNER_Dir_23) are all located in this additional folder (they must resides altogether in the same place).
                3. You have a utility Windows > LibFredo6 Settings > View Trace Log Files that gives a status of what has been loaded in your current Sketchup session.

                Thanks to advise if this solves your issues.

                Fredo

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                • gtalaricoG Offline
                  gtalarico
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                  Fredo, thanks a bunch for this plugin.
                  I can finally keep my plugins in my Dropbox and access/sync them across home PC, laptop & work!!!

                  I had tried doing this manually the way TIG had suggested to me in a different post, but I kept having some plugins not loading, bugs etc.

                  Anyway, I do have one question: I noticed that the Artisan toolbar was iconless (other toolbars were ok).
                  I decided to try copying the artisan folder (not the loader) to the local plugin folder and the icons showed up:
                  I guess this means artisan insisted in looking for its icons at the absolute local path?
                  Is there a way to prevent/fix this?

                  Thanks again!

                  -Gui

                  http://www.gtalarico.com

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                  • fredo6F Offline
                    fredo6
                    last edited by

                    @gtalarico said:

                    Anyway, I do have one question: I noticed that the Artisan toolbar was iconless (other toolbars were ok).
                    I decided to try copying the artisan folder (not the loader) to the local plugin folder and the icons showed up:
                    I guess this means artisan insisted in looking for its icons at the absolute local path?
                    Is there a way to prevent/fix this?

                    Thanks again!

                    Some plugins rely on the standard Sketchup Plugin directory to find files and therefore won't work correctly if put in an alternate folder.
                    Also, plugins usually require that their loader and subfolders are in the same location.

                    For Artisan (by Whaat), I will post a request in the related thread.

                    Fredo

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                    • Bob JamesB Offline
                      Bob James
                      last edited by

                      @gtalarico said:

                      I can finally keep my plugins in my Dropbox and access/sync them across home PC, laptop & work!!!

                      Now that's a great idea. More than reason enough to download this plugin.

                      Thank you Fredo

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                      • gtalaricoG Offline
                        gtalarico
                        last edited by

                        Thanks Fredo.

                        My current work around is to keep a separate LOCAL plugin folder on my DB, and I update those manually.

                        -Gui

                        http://www.gtalarico.com

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                        • gtalaricoG Offline
                          gtalarico
                          last edited by

                          @bob james said:

                          @gtalarico said:

                          I can finally keep my plugins in my Dropbox and access/sync them across home PC, laptop & work!!!

                          Now that's a great idea. More than reason enough to download this plugin.

                          Although I can still think of many uses for this plugin, I have further improved my SU<>Dropbox integration by using the method suggested by andrea.bianco here:
                          http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=40866
                          (The workflow is even further simplified and improved by Brodie here (Page2):
                          http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=34019&hilit=+dropbox

                          I have now moved all SU folders (Components,Materials,Styles,Components) to my DB so they are in Sync at home and work by symlink-ing the folders in my DB to the SU folder. 😍

                          Sorry this not necessarily "AdditionalPluginFolders" related, by it ties in to the conversation above, and I thought it could be helpful for people that end up in this post for the same reason I did. (SU+DB)

                          -Gui

                          http://www.gtalarico.com

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                          • sumasterS Offline
                            sumaster
                            last edited by

                            Its work perfectly ........

                            Thank you Ferdo ......

                            I like your all plugins ..... its very useful for my sketchup 3D modeling .......

                            THANKS again ...... waiting new things or new PLUGIN .... THANKS

                            Thank you,
                            SUmaster

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                            • D Offline
                              driven
                              last edited by

                              Hi Fredo,

                              is there any chance the startup select directories dialog could have all 'options' in one dialog box, i.e. dir1, dir2, dir3 as opposed to a cascade.

                              also, is there any way to 're-select' one you need forgot.

                              It does work well

                              cheers
                              john

                              learn from the mistakes of others, you may not live long enough to make them all yourself...

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                              • fredo6F Offline
                                fredo6
                                last edited by

                                @driven said:

                                is there any chance the startup select directories dialog could have all 'options' in one dialog box, i.e. dir1, dir2, dir3 as opposed to a cascade.

                                This is possible. I use the standard SU dialog box because it is faster programming. But I can develop one which is more comfortable

                                @driven said:

                                also, is there any way to 're-select' one you need forgot.

                                Difficult, because you would have to re-execute the whole loading cycle to be sure to catch all plugins.

                                If you need to start Sketchup frequently with various configurations (i.e. list of plugins), I would suggest other methods, based on list of plugins (a little bit like the Extension Preferences, but in external files that you can edit. Then 000_additionalPluginFolders would simply skip or load plugins depending on the configuration files.

                                Let me think of it

                                Fredo

                                PS: the objective of my script was mainly to avoid the Security issues with C:\program Files on Windows, share plugins between SU6, SU7 and SU8, and trap errors at loading to avoid messing up the toolbars. This is not really a plugin manager!

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                                  driven
                                  last edited by

                                  Hi

                                  I been experimenting using it with my 'on_off.rb' and it's working quite well, the idea is, if I have a bugsplat I can restart with no plugins then load the culprit to see if it's it... if not I can run then this and re-introduce my common sets one at a time[by re-starting at the moment], then any stray rubies until the problem re-appears.
                                  however it's also great for just limiting what I start with and only turning it on when I want an additional set.

                                  http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=41994#p372262
                                  http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=38726&p=372570#p372576

                                  be great if you could have a look at my concept, in the one posted I just use the load single plugin option to load this after a rubies"OFF" startup ...

                                  john

                                  learn from the mistakes of others, you may not live long enough to make them all yourself...

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                                  • C Offline
                                    camoncamon2001
                                    last edited by

                                    It's possible to load plugin directories from an external file (like .txt)?

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                                    • C Offline
                                      caronte01
                                      last edited by

                                      Hi Fredo;

                                      Great plugin, very useful for people working on different machines

                                      thanks!

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                                      • G Offline
                                        gabegabe
                                        last edited by

                                        I've installed this beautiful 000_AdditionalPluginFolders (v3.0a - 23 Aug 11)

                                        I have some compatibility problems with SU Podium Rendering Plugin

                                        Windows 7 64bit:
                                        When I put 000_AdditionalPluginFolders.rb in Google Sketchup Plugin FOLDER, SU Podium is NOT loaded;
                                        When I remove 000_AdditionalPluginFolders.rb into Google Sketchup Plugin FOLDER, SU Podium is regulary loaded

                                        Windows XP 32bit:
                                        When I put 000_AdditionalPluginFolders.rb in Google Sketchup Plugin FOLDER, SU Podium is loaded, EXEPT Pobium Browser;
                                        When I remove 000_AdditionalPluginFolders.rb into Google Sketchup Plugin FOLDER, SU Podium is regulary loaded

                                        Mac OSX Lion:
                                        When I put 000_AdditionalPluginFolders.rb in Google Sketchup Plugin FOLDER, SU Podium is loaded, EXEPT Pobium Browser and I receive a LOG error message;
                                        When I remove 000_AdditionalPluginFolders.rb into Google Sketchup Plugin FOLDER, SU Podium is regulary loaded

                                        Any suggestions?

                                        Thank You

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                                        • JQLJ Offline
                                          JQL
                                          last edited by

                                          Thanks Fredo for this very useful plugin.

                                          I've noticed something strange though:

                                          I have created two folders outside the program files directory:

                                          Original Folder - is the standard plugin's folder and had only your plugin.
                                          Folder 1 - has all my plugins
                                          Folder 2 - has the plugins I am testing and may delete

                                          I noticed the projections_v2 plugin was not working although it displayed all the icons on the toolbar. It was the only one. I moved it to the Original Folder with its tassociated folder (wich in this case had the .png icon files and a .rbs). When I did that the plugin started working but all the icons were gone from the toolbar. I copied the icon files from the Original Folder to Folder 1, keeping the same file struture. Everything is correct now.

                                          I noticed the same thing happening to another plugin that I was testing and was in Folder 2, (pointool.rb) but this does not happen to all plugins.

                                          Is it possible that Sketchup is assuming that Folder 1 is the main plugin folder? Is it possible that there are multiple ways of assigning paths inside plugins and some of those ways are causing those errors?

                                          For me the problem no longer exists, but it may interest you. Thanks again and best regards.

                                          www.casca.pt
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                                            26delta
                                            last edited by

                                            Ever since installing 000_AdditionalPlugiFolders, I have been getting error messages regarding win32api.so and the windows.rb and parameter.rb files. The first indicates that the procedure Init_win32api cannot be found in win32api.so.
                                            As far as I know, that procedure has never existed. The second error message indicates that the windows.rb cannot find the parameters.rb file and the third error message repeats the first. I'm at a loss.

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