Removing unused commands and shortening toolbars

[unearthed]

Hi, Is there a way to shorten a toolbar, for instance I use ThomThom's LayerTools often - it's a great tool TT, thanks, although I only ever use five commands and so have removed the remainders associated button images:
The rest of the toolbar is 'wasted' screen space.

Is their a way of reducing the toolbar length to equal the width of just the buttons in the folder so it looks like this?

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[TIG]

Yes but you need to edit some .rb file... best to ask its author where/how - perhaps PM him... ?
Where it is effectively saying "sometoolbar.add_item(command)" you put a # in front of it to disable that line of code and thereby stop that button being added to the toolbar... Of course any update to the files will lose your changes...

[unearthed]

Thanks for that TIG, I'll go and poke around in the .rb before I bother the writer - I was wrong it was Didier (with help from you apparently, according to the help file).

[unearthed]

Thanks TIG, that worked. Knowing almost nothing about ruby or coding in general I found I had to hash out all the lines concerning each icon e.g. (showing a modified and an unmodified commant set)

*#Delete layer

cmd1129 = UI::Command.new(("Delete layer")) { Sketchup.active_model.select_tool(DeleteClickedObjectLayer.new) }

cmd1129.small_icon = "Layer Manager/lm_del_lay_16.png"

cmd1129.large_icon = "Layer Manager/lm_del_lay_24.png"

cmd1129.tooltip = "Delete layer"

layertools_tb.add_item(cmd1129)

#Lock layer
cmd1229 = UI::Command.new(("Lock layer")) { Sketchup.active_model.select_tool(SetClickedObjectLayer.new("locked")) }
cmd1229.small_icon = "Layer Manager/lm_set_locked_16.png"
cmd1229.large_icon = "Layer Manager/lm_set_locked_24.png"
cmd1229.tooltip = "Lock layer"
layertools_tb.add_item(cmd1229)*

and now I have a nice short toolbar.

[TIG]

Using
**#** layertools_tb.add_item(cmd1129)
alone will stop its command appearing in the toolbar.
It might be a good idea to keep the other 'cmd1129' lines as defined - as they might be used in a 'menu' too ?
By adding # in front of every line containing that 'cmd1129' you effectively stop the command getting created altogether...
Your choice...

[thomthom]

That's not my plugin...

[TIG]

@thomthom said:

That's not my plugin...
I think it's Didier Bur's ?
The principal remains the same...

[unearthed]

Thanks TIG for the heads up on how to do that - so far I've only needed that small cmd set, and yes I've since realised it's Didiers' plugin not ThomThoms'.