[Plugin] ToolbarEditor (1.1.2) – updated 08.06.2014

Aerilius

As in the API documentation… http://www.sketchup.com/intl/en/developer/docs/ourdoc/command.php


cmd = UI;;Command.new("name of the command"){
  AuthorModule;;PluginName.name_of_the_main_method()
}
cmd.tooltip = "tooltip that describes the command"
cmd.status_bar_text = "text that tells how to use the command"
cmd.large_icon = "./path/to/a/icon24px.png"
cmd.small_icon = "./path/to/a/icon16px.png"

It still can only be used with understanding of what it does, and you would have to look up how a certain plugin is started.

It would probably be sufficient and much easier to edit the plugin's own ruby file, look for "UI::Command.new" and add the icons. The icon path can either be relative to the ruby file or absolute (to the system's root, ie. "C:/" on Windows).

Some plugins add themself only to the menu without creating a command. That looks like this:

UI.menu("plugins").add_item("name of the command"){ name_of_the_method }

and can be replaced by a command object (as above) plus

UI.menu("plugins").add_item(cmd)

danb

Hello, could anyone help. I used this plugin with 2013 but it does not seem to work with 2014. I find it very useful, particularly as I use a mac and you can't stack the toolbars as you do on windows

many thanks

Dan

Macbook Pro
OSX 10.9
Sketchup Pro 2014

Box

It throws a load error in SU2014

Aerilius

If you are curious, you can have a sneak-peak on the next version 1.1.0 with custom buttons. You will be able to create your own toolbar buttons for Ruby one-liners, code snippets or other things found on the forum.

fixed LoadError

Aerilius

Thanks, I fixed the load error.

TIG

@aerilius said:

Thanks, I fixed the load error.
BUT you haven't published it

Box

It's on the previous page Tig, not the first post. It's a teaser/beta and the fix worked for me.

TIG

So the version in that mid-thread post has been updated - it was not clear...

function

I've noticed that this plugin takes a fairly long time to load all the icons at startup. Is there any other negative affects to performance?

Aerilius

It has an arbitrary timeout of five seconds. It's not doing much processing, it just needs to be sure that SketchUp has finished loading all other plugins. I wish SketchUp had (or will have) a proper API method for that. When I come back I'll see if it still works reliably wirh a shorter timeout.

function

its kind of strange for me. i have something like 4 tool bars, they load one icon at a time, and then on the 5th toolbar i made it loads all 6 instantly .. ::

Aerilius

I updated the plugin. It now includes custom buttons.

Rich O Brien

Incredible.

Krisidious

I can haz all thomthoms in a toolbar?

Ben Ritter

Thank you for sharing this with us.

Krisidious

does this mean it's time for the Icon Making Challenge?

LewisEE

I can't enter code for custom (new) buttons using SketchUp Make 2014. Other wise this is a great extension. Thanks

driven

how did miss this one, very nice...

just pondering some additional behaviour...

I regularly 'bury' plugins that I use infrequently, but add the tools main icon to a toolbar and use that to 'load' the plugin only when I need it, I tend to do it for plugins that add observers, skp's or materials to my model.

I try to do it on my own plugins as well so the 'command' is the loader...
example

      command2 = UI;;Command.new("Add mac batch Icons"){ load( File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), "Add_icon_logic_batch_skps.rb") ) }

could the 'burying' be an option for this plugin?

so if I add a complex plugin to a toolbar it is moved into a 'Toolbar 1' folder and only a single icon is added to the 'Toolbar 1' toolbar, but if I click on that 'Icon' 'Toolbar 1' is replace by a second 'Toolbar1' that includes any additional toolset buttons at exactly the same position...

I'll see if I can find my simple 2 tool test file, that may clarify what I mean...

john

alsomar

Thank you so much Aerilius!

It could be nice to export custom toolbars to a *.dat file to get the same toolbars in other computers. Is there any way to do anything like that?

Greetings!

Aerilius

The toolbars are stored in the registry
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SketchUp\SketchUp 2014\Plugins_ae\ToolbarEditor.
You can copy and paste it in the same key on another SketchUp installation or version. You can also use the File → Export functionality of the registry. I'm not sure whether I should add an export button to each of my plugins, I hope SketchUp will provide an efficient and central place to migrate settings.

From a developer side, I want to emphasis again that most of us want plugin settings to be namespaced and bundled in one sub-key, and not mixed within SketchUp's internal keys.