[Plugin] LaunchUp – A Quick Launcher for SketchUp
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@aerilius said:
Wouldn't you find the components also in the components browser? To what extent would it be different or better?
The results are in the component browser, just like all the tools / functions are in the menus and toolbars. The exciting thing, to me, about this plugin, is how much drawing space I recover from windows and toolbars. Instead of having the component window open and resizing the main SU window so they don't overlap and obscure parts of my model, I can now have the LaunchUp window open and have the whole screen for drawing. A quick shortcut key brings the LaunchUp window to focus, I type my cabinet code, down arrow and enter. Now I have my cabinet ready to insert at the cursor location. It's great!!
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Hi Aerillus
The 1.0.6 version is working on mac now
Thanks for fast fix !
But the option button (right button) comes up in a white and empty window again, after clicking.
The left option button (older named preferences button) works fine.However, your plugin is a very, very useful enhancement !!!
Best regards,
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I check this out when i get back to London, It seems to be exactly what Ive been looking for.
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Thanks for the Chinese version provided by 麦兜(miduee)&双鱼(shuangyu).It works very well.
Their Chinese Website of SketchUp,that named SketchUpBAR,like our sketchucation is also a professional forum with a lot of Plugins translated perfectly in Chinese.All in all,our friend,SketchUp working much better for us is the most important thing.
Thank You All,Awesome！ -
Love this tool
but for some reason, when i use it to select the native Solid Tools, it finds them but clicking them doesn't do anything ? -
Do you have a selection?
SketchUp does not expose the exact same solid tools via the API, the ones you see were implemented by me using API methods but require a selection. If a tool is not applicable in the current context, it should be displayed grayed out. -
Yes i do, i select 2 sollid groups, open the launcher, search for Union, it finds it (says Tools > Sollid Tools), i click it and nothing happens, both groups stay selected too.
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Thanks for reporting. Does it work with three groups selected? This is a bug, it should also work with two. I have fixed it and will soon upload a new version.
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Oh wow, yes it works with 3 groups selected ! Strange lol
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@pete said:
@aerilius said:
Wouldn't you find the components also in the components browser? To what extent would it be different or better?
The results are in the component browser, just like all the tools / functions are in the menus and toolbars. ...
could you developp the idea?
when i type the name of a component in the launchup window, it doesn''t bring the component on the cursor with my computer....
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@glro said:
could you developp the idea?
You need to install this plugin:
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=36467&p=321094&hilit=mylibrary#p321041
to have access to components in the components folder in your SketchUp install directory.
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@pete said:
@glro said:
could you developp the idea?
You need to install this plugin:
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=36467&p=321094&hilit=mylibrary#p321041
to have access to components in the components folder in your SketchUp install directory.
OK
i downloaded and installed "CLibraries_Loader.rb"
and you are right: when i type the name of the component in the launchup windows, it appears magically at the cursor location
great idea
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Hi Aerillus
some minor issues and suggestions:
1.LaunchUpOption dialog cannot close in 1.0.6 still
2.I can only click the blank outside text(Type to search...) to active the search dialog
3.maybe this js can help it gains focus:
document.onmouseover = function(e) {if (document.all && !event.fromElement) window.focus();}
4.it'll be better if the menu item can toggle, so we can use shortcut to open and close it
5.performance is not well in Windows XP
could you improve it?
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Hi lionk,
thanks for the suggestions! As I see you are (probably) using Internet Explorer 6? I have to admit, I didn't consider IE6. Microsoft doesn't provide any download for it and recommends not to use it because of its age, bugs and security issues. If you can update to a newer version that could improve it.
At the moment I am trying whether I can get it work well with Internet Explorer 6. -
Let IE6 die already. The amount of work to adjust to that engine is just... way too much.
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A new version 1.0.7 is available.
• on OS X, sometimes the dialog didn't resize, giving the impression that the visibility of the History was not remembered.
• changing options in the options dialog did not always give visual feedback. Now it is also indicated if input was invalid.
• the dialog should now (better) focus when it starts
• the menu indicates now whether the dialog is visible
• it now supports IE7I did not yet make the menu item a toggle, because at the moment you can use a shortcut to bring up the dialog immediately (focus the dialog or open it if it isn't open). A toggle would mean you accidentially close the dialog when you didn't see it was already open.
I couldn't make it work with IE6 (but maybe it's now better). There are issues that are not bugs of the plugin but of Internet Explorer, and that I can't work around. Microsoft has fixed most of them with IE7 and IE8.
There is a little issue on OS X: the resizing corner covers partly the History button. If I turned of the resizing corner, it wouldn't be possible to change the dialog's width on OS X.
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I assigned F5 to Launch up. I find that if I trigger the hotkey while LU is still open it stops working and I need to reopen the window.
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Oh! It remembers your last used items and place them on top! Nice!
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I also occasionally see the "Type to search..." string under text that has been entered. Can't quite reliably reproduce it though.
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I forgot to add:
• it is now possible to close the dialog when pressing the escape key.Isn't F5 the reload shortcut? I might have to test that reloading the JavaScript doesn't break it, or I add an override to prevent F5.
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