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      Garry K
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      Can this be installed once - and then used by a number of different plugins by a number of different authors? Or do we have to include a copy of SKUI with each plugin installation?

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        tt_su
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        @garry k said:

        Can this be installed once - and then used by a number of different plugins by a number of different authors?

        I've not made it available for user installation.

        @garry k said:

        Or do we have to include a copy of SKUI with each plugin installation?

        There is a special loading method that will let you load SKUI into your own namespace without requiring you to modify SKUI, please see the Wiki:
        https://github.com/thomthom/SKUI/wiki/Embedding-SKUI-in-Projects

        That way you get the version your plugin depend on - which require you to bundle it with your extension.
        Since SKUI is still in flux I haven't yet considered any other way of distributing it - as changes would break plugins.

        You could always fork the project and modify your own version, changing the root namespace.
        Note that the license prohibit distribution of a modified SKUI unless you change the root namespace.
        But I'd encourage people to contribute to the main GitHub repo instead of doing their private mods.

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          pgarmyn
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          This is great.
          If it's platform independent, It will become the most downloaded plugin (after Sketchucation tools)
          👍

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            pgarmyn
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            Has SKUI been tested on Mac ?
            Mac-users ❓

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              thomthom
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              @pgarmyn said:

              Has SKUI been tested on Mac ?
              Mac-users ❓

              Yes, I have a mac I test it on.
              How come? You found issues?

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

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                thomthom
                last edited by

                So, I'm a bit unclear here - have you found issues with SKUI on OSX?

                Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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                  pgarmyn
                  last edited by

                  @thomthom said:

                  So, I'm a bit unclear here - have you found issues with SKUI on OSX?

                  Completly clear : Before i use it, i wanted to know..... So i don't have any experience yet with SKUI.
                  Thanks for the info : tested on Mac

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                    pgarmyn
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                    @thomthom said:

                    Yes, I have a mac I test it on.
                    How come? You found issues?

                    No I have Mac issues with the SU inputbox and was looking for an alternative...

                    See : http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=11%26amp;t=57642#p524309

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                      arunkumargonal
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                      Hi ThomThom,

                      SKUI is helping me a lot in building some basic GUI.

                      Need your help for the following scenario.
                      I am adding controls to the window. I have kept a selection observer, when ever the selection changes, Need to remove all the controls in the window and add new ones.

                      I am trying to use the remove_control method of control_manager which is not deleting all the controls. Please let me know if it is right to use the below code for removing all the controls of the window.

                      window.controls.each do |control| window.remove_control(control) end

                      Thank you,
                      Arun.

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                        thomthom
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                        hm... haven't really done much for removing. I don't recall what that method was for. Though, performance wise I would think it would be faster to put them in a Groupbox - then hide/show the groupbox. ...saying that - maybe hide/show need to be added...

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

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                          thomthom
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                          No - Control.visible and Control.visible= is already implemented! 😄
                          But I really should generate them docs.

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

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                            arunkumargonal
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                            Hey TT,

                            The remove_control works good. It indeed removes the control from the window.
                            The issue was with my code, I was using window.controls.each to call the remove_control in which, the control is deleted from the array.
                            My code:
                            @window.controls.each do |container| @window.remove_control(container) end

                            Code in remove_control
                            @controls.delete( control )

                            I commented the delete inside the remove_control function and used @windows.controls.clear in my function.

                            Thanks & Regards,
                            Arun

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                              tt_su
                              last edited by

                              Ah, you where removing elements from the collection you iterated - that will usually always cause problems with any collection. You want to make an array copy of the collection first and iterate that instead.

                              @window.controls.to_aeach

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                                brewsky
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                                Hi TT,

                                I want to try to add a progressbar control to SKUI.
                                It does not seem very different from the jQuery widget for "button"...
                                Do you have any tips on where to start? 😉

                                Another question, how did you disable the right-click / context menu in the webdialog?
                                Would be nice to temporarily enable "view source"...

                                Thanks!

                                Sketchup BIM-Tools - http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=299107

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                                  jolran
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                                  @brewsky

                                  Don't want to be a bringer of bad news 😳 , but I have some negative experiences with that.

                                  It can be problematic to do a progressbar to webdialog. Due to the "freeze" that happends when ruby calculates.

                                  There where some early reports on that long ago. (Look in the first link at first post.)
                                  Don't know if that is still a problem with 2015.

                                  http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=180%26amp;t=54873%26amp;hilit=+webdialog+freeze

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                                    driven
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                                    @brewsky said:

                                    Another question, how did you disable the right-click / context menu in the webdialog?
                                    Would be nice to temporarily enable "view source"...

                                    jQuery UI blocks the right click menu...

                                    on a mac you can either right click into an input box, or try and do it before the page loads...

                                    BTW: you can easily view the time lags in a webdialog by simply adding a gif to a page, as SU works harder it will slow, stop, restart, it's even more noticeable if you use a css3 loader that runs a text animation...

                                    john

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

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                                      Jim
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                                      The right click blocking is done explicitly in ui.js file.

                                      Hi

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                                        brewsky
                                        last edited by

                                        @jolran said:

                                        It can be problematic to do a progressbar to webdialog. Due to the "freeze" that happends when ruby calculates.

                                        Thanks for pointing this out. Might be better to let this rest until I really need it 😉
                                        One positive thing might be that the progressbar would be for while I wait for a server to process my model so I don't think ruby has to work hard in the background.

                                        Sketchup BIM-Tools - http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=299107

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                                          brewsky
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                                          @jim said:

                                          The right click blocking is done explicitly in ui.js file.

                                          Thanks! Found it 😄

                                          Sketchup BIM-Tools - http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=299107

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                                            jolran
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                                            @unknownuser said:

                                            Thanks for pointing this out. Might be better to let this rest until I really need it 😉
                                            One positive thing might be that the progressbar would be for while I wait for a server to process my model so I don't think ruby has to work hard in the background.

                                            Ah, you might be ok then if it's not coming from Ruby.

                                            And (se above Drivens post) I remember now. Indeed Driven has showed me some cure for a progressbar. So it's doable.

                                            Although a progressbar might not be the most important aspect of your plugin 😉 😄

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