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    [Plugin] LaunchUp – A Quick Launcher for SketchUp

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    • masterpaulM Offline
      masterpaul
      last edited by

      I check this out when i get back to London, It seems to be exactly what Ive been looking for.

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        ly871108
        last edited by

        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!

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          Missy_X
          last edited by

          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 ?

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          • A Offline
            Aerilius
            last edited by

            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.

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              Missy_X
              last edited by

              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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                Aerilius
                last edited by

                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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                  Missy_X
                  last edited by

                  Oh wow, yes it works with 3 groups selected ! Strange lol

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                  • G Offline
                    glro
                    last edited by

                    @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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                      Pete
                      last edited by

                      @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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                        glro
                        last edited by

                        @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
                        thank you!

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                          lionk
                          last edited by

                          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?
                          lup_winxp.jpg

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                            Aerilius
                            last edited by

                            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.

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                            • thomthomT Offline
                              thomthom
                              last edited by

                              Let IE6 die already. The amount of work to adjust to that engine is just... way too much.

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

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                                Aerilius
                                last edited by

                                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 IE7

                                I 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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                                • thomthomT Offline
                                  thomthom
                                  last edited by

                                  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.

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

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                                  • thomthomT Offline
                                    thomthom
                                    last edited by

                                    Oh! It remembers your last used items and place them on top! Nice!

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

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                                    • thomthomT Offline
                                      thomthom
                                      last edited by

                                      I also occasionally see the "Type to search..." string under text that has been entered. Can't quite reliably reproduce it though.

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

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                                        Aerilius
                                        last edited by

                                        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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                                        • thomthomT Offline
                                          thomthom
                                          last edited by

                                          Ah! Duh! Yea - I wasn't thinking of that. It's just that I've used all the "normal" keys.

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

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                                            driven
                                            last edited by

                                            hi AE,

                                            for some reason the dialog window always starts bottom left corner, pinned, unpinned, same session or even after I close SU with it open.

                                            john

                                            mac...

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

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