[Plugin] Layers Panel 1.2.1

glro

Sorry, I was away and didn't see your post.

Could you translate the error message?
I can't reproduce it, could you explain in detail how you got the error?

"not possible to get the property "inserbefore', reference null or not defined...
do you want to continue script of the page?"

more or less...

jiminy-billy-bob

Thanks,

Could you explain in detail how you got the error?

glro

@jiminy-billy-bob said:

Thanks,

Could you explain in detail how you got the error?

i was trying to make a group of different layers
i selected them as shown in the video, and i couldn't drop them

but...

i tried again and this time it worked
false alarm, sorry

seems to be working on my computer too

jiminy-billy-bob

Great, I'm glad it works.
Maybe you tried just after installing the plugin, before restarting SU?

jiminy-billy-bob

Thanks for the donation, glro, I appreciate it!

fountainhead

I've had some strange behaviour creep in with layers panel recently. At least once a day, possibly more, the layers dialogue ends up blank, with no layers showing at all. When I chose the recent history dialogue, only one of multiple layers is restored. The only solution for me is to close Sketchup, remove both the jbb_layers_panel folder, and the jbb_layers_panel.rb, then reload Sketchup, and reinstall the .rbz file. Once that is done, all of the layers show up again...until the next sudden disappearance. I need to point out that the layers don't disappear from an .skp file that is currently open, only when opening an existing .skp file initially. The behaviour also repeats itself with the same .skp file over and over. In the last 3 days, I have had to unload/reload layers panel on the same .skp file on 4 separate file opening occasions. Any ideas?

fountainhead

A little more information. Opened an skp file this morning, no layers. Unloaded and re-loaded layers panel, all good. Opened a second, different skp file, no layers in that one, then I decided to open the previous skp file, directly from the open skp file. Since the previous file was open on the desktop, Sketchup warned me "file is open, open read only blah blah", as soon is a picked no, to cancel the load of the previous file, boom, all of the layers in 'layers panel' loaded up in the currently open file, where they, just seconds ago, were unavailable.

Not sure if that helps figure out what could be going on.

jiminy-billy-bob

Are you running on windows or MAC?
If windows, what's your Internet Explorer version?
What's your Sketchup version?
When the dialog is blank, are you able to use its buttons? For exemple, does the "Add layer" button adds a new layer in Sketchup's layers window?
Could you try with all other plugins disabled? (Rename the plugins folder to "Plugins2", and create a new "Plugins" folder with only Layers Panel files in it)

(Please answer all questions, thanks)

glro

@fountainhead said:

I've had some strange behaviour creep in with layers panel recently.

i have too

sketchup just freezed when i clicked on "select highlighted layer"

the plugin would be very useful, but it doesn't seem stable

jiminy-billy-bob

@glro said:

sketchup just freezed when i clicked on "select highlighted layer"

Any more detail which could help me identify the issue?

glro

@jiminy-billy-bob said:

@glro said:

sketchup just freezed when i clicked on "select highlighted layer"

Any more detail which could help me identify the issue?

nothing much to say

i had created some scenes previously, and then i launched layers panel plugin to select one layer, and it freezed the computer

i shall give it another try, and try to atch better the next time i have a bug

JQL

Hi Jiminy,

I have another feature request for your layers panel.

Delete layer's content while keeping layer.

It's handy in a lot of situations, for me, for instance it's nice so I can delete the content on layers on my template file. It's also good to clean a "trash" layer I have sometimes, where I put a lot of stuff on that trash layer so I can fall back to it later on... I can imagine a lot of useful scenarios like deleting certain layers to share a file by email.

I hope you'll be able to do it and thanks once again,

João

jiminy-billy-bob

I'll add it to my todo list.

JQL

@jiminy-billy-bob said:

I'll add it to my todo list.

Thanks Jiminy, that's great!

fountainhead

Sorry for the late reply, was away for holidays.

OS is Windows 8.1 update 1
IE version is 11.0.9600.17239
SketchUp 2014 14.1.1282

The add layer functionality does not work when the dialogue opens blank.

Empty plugins folder, layers panel only, works. So time to start process of elimination, or do you have some well known offenders I could start the weeding out process with?