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    • wind-borneW Offline
      wind-borne
      last edited by

      @jiminy-billy-bob said:

      @wind-borne said:

      Suggestion:
      You might want to enlarge icon for use in main toolbar, barely discernible as shown on top shot.

      Do you have a retina screen ?

      No, here is a shot of your icon surrounded by others in the customize toolbar window.


      tb.png

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      • wind-borneW Offline
        wind-borne
        last edited by

        @jiminy-billy-bob said:

        As for the toolbar, can't you just hide it in the toolbars options ?

        As far as I am aware manipulating the code is the only way. There have been many threads about toolbar management on OSX concerning automatically displaying toolbars every time SU is opened.

        "To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text."OSX 10.11.6

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        • HornOxxH Offline
          HornOxx
          last edited by

          wow - what a great plugin - thank you so much!
          I work a lot with the Adobe bundle and I'm really not a fan of it - but one thing I love as well, namely the layer management. So I am very happy with your plugin. Just the possibility with the typical Adobe ALT shortcut is great or even the possibility to work with layer groups. So far, your plugin works without error (SKUP 8 with Win7/64Bit).
          One thing I still do not understand: The use or the possibilities of the locksmbol here - does the lock prevent of deleting a layers or should it lock the layers content as well?
          I would appreciate a note about this question...

          Once again many thanks for this great plugin

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          • H Offline
            huckrorick
            last edited by

            Re:
            "It auto-updates the layer state of the current scene.
            If you turn on or off a layer, it's saved in the scene.

            Isn't that what I would want to happen??"

            From my use I would not want that to happen. When I open a scene I frequently want to turn on and off other layers while I'm examining the model. I do not want those changes automatically made to the scene. If I want the changes, then I click "update". It would be VERY inconvenient for my use to have every layer I turn on or off added to the scene.

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              rafaelparedes
              last edited by

              the option add a layer only visible in the current scene just add a hidden layer to all scenes,its not visible in the current scene.

              anyone else having this issue?

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              • jiminy-billy-bobJ Offline
                jiminy-billy-bob
                last edited by

                @wind-borne said:

                No, here is a shot of your icon surrounded by others in the customize toolbar window.

                This is weird. It displays fine on windows. Anyone else having this issue on mac ?

                @wind-borne said:

                As far as I am aware manipulating the code is the only way. There have been many threads about toolbar management on OSX concerning automatically displaying toolbars every time SU is opened.

                Ho ok, I thought it worked the same as windows.

                @hornoxx said:

                One thing I still do not understand: The use or the possibilities of the locksmbol here - does the lock prevent of deleting a layers or should it lock the layers content as well?
                I would appreciate a note about this question...

                You're right, I need to write some doc to explain everything.
                The locking feature only prevent layers to be deleted or purged, but only from within Layers Panel. If you try to delete or purge them from the default layers window, they'll still be removed.
                And thanks, I really appreciate your kind words πŸ˜„

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                • jiminy-billy-bobJ Offline
                  jiminy-billy-bob
                  last edited by

                  @unknownuser said:

                  the option add a layer only visible in the current scene just add a hidden layer to all scenes,its not visible in the current scene.

                  anyone else having this issue?

                  You're right, I can reproduce this.

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                  • Bob JamesB Offline
                    Bob James
                    last edited by

                    @huckrorick said:

                    Re:
                    "It auto-updates the layer state of the current scene.
                    If you turn on or off a layer, it's saved in the scene.

                    Isn't that what I would want to happen??"

                    From my use I would not want that to happen. When I open a scene I frequently want to turn on and off other layers while I'm examining the model. I do not want those changes automatically made to the scene. If I want the changes, then I click "update". It would be VERY inconvenient for my use to have every layer I turn on or off added to the scene.

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                    • S Offline
                      Stephen Roberts
                      last edited by

                      Can't use it on my system - bugsplats every single time I try a drawing. I'm going to try disabling other plugins till I find out which one is causing the problem. If I find an answer I will feed it back. Looks very promising and I hope it can be kept....

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                      • tt_suT Offline
                        tt_su
                        last edited by

                        Is your forum profile up to date? You are using Windows (what version) with SketchUp 8?

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                        • D Offline
                          davecoopstl
                          last edited by

                          This is a fantastic plugin! Thanks for all the hard work.

                          Any chance you could make it so that when I use the Hide Dialogs function in SketchUp, your Layers Panel is included in the Dialog Boxes that hide/unhide??

                          That would be super-handy. Especially since I have Hide Dialogs assigned to a Shortcut Key and, right now, they all hide except for your Layers Panel.

                          Just a suggestion.
                          Dave.

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                          • jiminy-billy-bobJ Offline
                            jiminy-billy-bob
                            last edited by

                            As far as I know, the API doesn't allow this.

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                            • jiminy-billy-bobJ Offline
                              jiminy-billy-bob
                              last edited by

                              @wind-borne said:

                              @jiminy-billy-bob said:

                              @wind-borne said:

                              Suggestion:
                              You might want to enlarge icon for use in main toolbar, barely discernible as shown on top shot.

                              Do you have a retina screen ?

                              No, here is a shot of your icon surrounded by others in the customize toolbar window.

                              Could you test the attached plugin and tell me if it has the same problem ? (The icon should be the same as Layers Panel)
                              Thanks


                              jbb_toolbar_test.rbz

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                              • wind-borneW Offline
                                wind-borne
                                last edited by

                                @jiminy-billy-bob said:

                                Could you test the attached plugin and tell me if it has the same problem ? (The icon should be the same as Layers Panel)
                                Thanks

                                same result, small in main

                                floating ok sized yet do not want auto loading


                                09.png

                                "To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text."OSX 10.11.6

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                                • jiminy-billy-bobJ Offline
                                  jiminy-billy-bob
                                  last edited by

                                  Great, thanks. I needed to know this snippet has the issue before filling a bug report.

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                                  • Rich O BrienR Offline
                                    Rich O Brien Moderator
                                    last edited by

                                    I never knew this tread had added a poll?

                                    Nice to see Thea getting some attention

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                                    • jiminy-billy-bobJ Offline
                                      jiminy-billy-bob
                                      last edited by

                                      Yeah it's been some time now πŸ˜„

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                                      • jiminy-billy-bobJ Offline
                                        jiminy-billy-bob
                                        last edited by

                                        .

                                        New version 0.9.1 beta !

                                        Changelog :

                                        • Fixed options dialog on OSX
                                        • Disabled automatic display of floating toolbar on OSX
                                        • Fixed "Add layer hidden on new pages"
                                        • Fixed clash with RichSections plugin
                                        • Several bug fixes

                                        Download in the plugin store !

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                                        • P Offline
                                          paolo01
                                          last edited by

                                          Just installed and the plugin is very useful, to keep layers in order. It is really excellent! Thank you!
                                          If I can suggest a new function, it might be useful to have the possibility to duplicate the position of a single layer in different groups. For instance, in a building with many stores, I could have the layer "external walls store2" within the group "store2", but also within the group "external walls", containing all the external walls of any store .
                                          I think it could be possible to reach a similar result using layers and outliner together, but using a single panel would make the function of visibility much simpler.
                                          Thank you again and good job!
                                          Paolo

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                                          • jiminy-billy-bobJ Offline
                                            jiminy-billy-bob
                                            last edited by

                                            I think it would be rather confusing to have duplicates of the same layer. I've never seen such thing in any software, and I think there is a reason for that.
                                            Although, I was considering adding a function similar to layer compositions in Photoshop.

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