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    • thomthomT Offline
      thomthom
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      ? I missed that. What changed?

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      • KrisidiousK Offline
        Krisidious
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        This is interesting as well... There is a right click on the toolbar area that allows the list of toolbars to pop up and Options is not available on that list even though it is on the list when editing toolbars view the old method. Strange.

        By: Kristoff Rand
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        • TIGT Offline
          TIG Moderator
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          @thomthom said:

          ? I missed that. What changed?
          In v8 when you make a shared toolbar and referenced it across modules and added items to it it worked - provided the additions were done as SketchUp startsup.
          In v2013 the reference to the toolbar seems to get lost unless it is all processed within the same module, then the buttons don't get added... It's as if everything gets loaded asynchronously and the reference is not in place when the next file's module/class loads πŸ˜•
          In v8 my ExtrudeTools setup a global reference [$ yes I know πŸ˜’ ] to a new toolbar - this was made as the first rb in the set loaded, thereafter the other files loaded [using different modules/classes etc] and added the buttons in turn. This fail in v2013.
          The current solution wraps every part of the toolset in a new 'ExtrudeTools' module, givingg it a TOOLBAR constant referencing to a newly made toolbar by the 'loader'.
          The loader then loads the remaining rb files in its subfolder, each of those adds a button onto TOOLBAR as its module loads, referencing the particular tool class in each rb file's module...
          Anyway whatever the cause is the new way works and the old way doesn't...

          TIG

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          • thomthomT Offline
            thomthom
            last edited by

            That's mighty peculiar. I wonder if my ThomThom menu has broken...

            Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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            • TIGT Offline
              TIG Moderator
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              This works in v8, BUT NOT in v13:

              All of these scripts are in the '.../Plugins' folder...
              a.rb makes an empty toolbar, referenced 'globally' as '$my_little_toolbar'.
              b.rb which loads next [i.e. alphanumeric order] and adds its button to $my_little_toolbar.
              c.rb which loads next [i.e. alphanumeric order] and adds its button to $my_little_toolbar.
              ...

              Result: v8 - Toolbar with two+ buttons.
              In v13 either NO Toolbar at all OR a toolbar that is 'listed' and can be checked/unchecked but cannot be seen on screen, OR a toolbar that has no buttons at all. It's as if the later scripts load while the first is still being resolved, the only thing controlling their load order is their names and SketchUp's auto-loading code... however, the working example shown below deliberately creates 'the parts' in distinct steps, each one loaded in order by a former one...

              This works in v8 AND v13:

              The first script is in the '.../Plugins' folder and the rest within its subfolder '.../Plugins/a'
              a.rb makes an empty toolbar, referenced as 'My_little_toolbar' across a module.
              it also loads the scripts from its subfolder 'a'...
              a/b.rb which is in the same module and adds its button to My_little_toolbar.
              a/c.rb which is in the same module and adds its button to My_little_toolbar.
              ...

              Result: v8 and v13 Toolbar with two+ buttons.

              TIG

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              • thomthomT Offline
                thomthom
                last edited by

                That's very odd. :s

                Have you filed a bug report for that?

                Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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                • TIGT Offline
                  TIG Moderator
                  last edited by

                  I left it with Chris Fullmer...
                  It was reported on EEby... very early on in the beta, and then again more recently when issues with other toolbars came up...
                  'They are looking at it'...

                  TIG

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                  • KrisidiousK Offline
                    Krisidious
                    last edited by

                    So is there anyway I can build a toolbar that has commands like this in it? They are native commands but I don't see a way to get them on to a custom toolbar.

                    toggleHidden
                    hideSelected
                    unhideSelected

                    toggleAxes
                    toggleGuides
                    toggleColorByLayer
                    toggleShadows
                    toggleFog

                    hideRest
                    hideSimilar

                    centerSelection
                    zoomExtents
                    togglePerspective

                    ungroup

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                    • KrisidiousK Offline
                      Krisidious
                      last edited by

                      anyone had any luck getting this to work?

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                      Home DesignerUnique House Plans

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                      • KrisidiousK Offline
                        Krisidious
                        last edited by

                        @dan rathbun said:

                        Basically it's is a very OLD plugin.

                        Aerilius' toolbar editor should work better than Jim's old editor.

                        I tired it today and as far as I can tell it's not capable of using commands like this one is. All I could get was current plugins that already have toolbars with them.

                        By: Kristoff Rand
                        Home DesignerUnique House Plans

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                        • BurkhardB Offline
                          Burkhard
                          last edited by

                          It worked for me. I have set a bunch of scripts into the Toolbar but I have also toggle hidden and hide rest. Some of the Icons are not show up - just a smily button - but the function is Ok. Your scripts are all the native scripts from Jim?

                          [http://www.ia-plus.de(http://www.ia-plus.de)]

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                          • KrisidiousK Offline
                            Krisidious
                            last edited by

                            yes all native...

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                            • BurkhardB Offline
                              Burkhard
                              last edited by

                              I will try this out and report

                              [http://www.ia-plus.de(http://www.ia-plus.de)]

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                              • BurkhardB Offline
                                Burkhard
                                last edited by

                                Works, except two Icons.
                                Maybe dumb, but have you checked the preference>extension>custom toolbars
                                (I meant the last two, just saw one of my own is also in there. - name conflict πŸ˜„ )


                                view.png

                                [http://www.ia-plus.de(http://www.ia-plus.de)]

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                                • BurkhardB Offline
                                  Burkhard
                                  last edited by

                                  Because of the Aerilius Plugins. It is a very usefull tool. But I use a lot of single scripts, one liners and and extra functions ( like open second Sketchup instance or paste in place ) as buttons, to create some workflow improvements or special workflows, where I have a set of tools which help me in this case.
                                  If there is an automatic commandbuilder for single scripts and a bunch of icon samplers ( like Cadfathers) Aerilius or Ricks Toolbar Builder are unbeatable πŸ˜‰

                                  [http://www.ia-plus.de(http://www.ia-plus.de)]

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                                  • KrisidiousK Offline
                                    Krisidious
                                    last edited by

                                    yeah I have it set.

                                    Capturetoolbars.JPG

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                                    • KrisidiousK Offline
                                      Krisidious
                                      last edited by

                                      Ok... thanks to Burkard we have a fix. replace your loader.rb file located here \SketchUp\SketchUp 2013\Plugins\Toolbars\Files with this one.

                                      loader.rb

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                                      • J Offline
                                        JuanV.Soler
                                        last edited by

                                        @krisidious said:

                                        Ok... thanks to Burkard we have a fix. replace your loader.rb file located here \SketchUp\SketchUp 2013\Plugins\Toolbars\Files with this one.

                                        [attachment=0:2nhe1o07]<!-- ia0 -->loader.rb<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:2nhe1o07]

                                        Thanks both , it worked Β‘ πŸ‘

                                        ,))),

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                                        • KrisidiousK Offline
                                          Krisidious
                                          last edited by

                                          Good to hear Juan... I use this toolbar constantly. Had to have it.

                                          By: Kristoff Rand
                                          Home DesignerUnique House Plans

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                                          • Bob JamesB Offline
                                            Bob James
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                                            Many, many thanks πŸ‘

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