[Plugin] ToolbarEditor (1.1.2) – updated 08.06.2014

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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.

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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.

alsomar

@aerilius said:

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.

Thank you for your response! Greetings!

Lushi

i would love this tool could create groups of nested buttons, like those in the bar "getting started"

Aerilius

I would love this too!
But they are neither user-editable nor available for plugins.

glro

@lewisee said:

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

i can't enter snippets either

su8, win7

Aerilius

What happens when you can't enter snippets? What do you do and what does not happen?

glro

@aerilius said:

What happens when you can't enter snippets? What do you do and what does not happen?

nothing happens...

after i fill in the form (name, category, ...), and i choose a file for the icon, it is then impossible for me to type anything in the area below the icon file address

Aerilius

I cannot reproduce this. For me the webdialog accepts input in all input fields in SU 2014, SU 2013, SU8, WinXP, Win7.

• What version of Internet Explorer do you have installed?
• Does the text area for Ruby code never accept input or only after you selected an icon?
• Can you see that it is a text area (or is it possible that it just has a zero size)?

glro

@aerilius said:

I cannot reproduce this. For me the webdialog accepts input in all input fields in SU 2014, SU 2013, SU8, WinXP, Win7.

• What version of Internet Explorer do you have installed?
• Does the text area for Ruby code never accept input or only after you selected an icon?
• Can you see that it is a text area (or is it possible that it just has a zero size)?

internet explorer 11
never accepts input
cannot see that it is a text area (screen copy added) add a button window

hope it helps