[Plugin] Layers Panel 1.2.1

jiminy-billy-bob

Did you try disabling/uninstalling the plugin ?

cmeed

everything was working well (the group names was the only thing) I was working inside a group outliner was open and then i got the bugsplat. I dont normally get bugsplats so its funny.
I didn't uninstall or do anything witht the plugin.

did you mean to uninstall it and try opening the files? as I've tried opening themon my Mac (no "Layers {abel" plugin) and still not luck - It happened on my pc

opening .skb and .skp result with Unexpected file format.

ken

I have had the same problem as cmeed. The unexpected file format. Luckily for me I had a backup or I would have lost the file.

Note, I have the plugin TIG: Archiver v2.0 which is a life saver.

http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=149749#p149749

Thanks for your plugin.

Ken

jiminy-billy-bob

Holy sh...
I'll try to reproduce the bug. That's a big problem if it corrupts files... I'm so sorry, I hope you didn't lose your work.

I'll add a warning in the first post.

jiminy-billy-bob

cmeed, can you check if you still have the dump/log files produced by the bugsplat ?

cmeed

I have started again (this time with archiver as cover)
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Elibjr

Oh wow, this is truly a nice plugin. I wished that the standard layers toolbar worked this way. Now I want to install in on both my laptop and the desktop machine. This is one of the cleanest plugins I have used. Great work Jiminy. My top 10 now.

Elibjr

Ben Ritter

I appreciate your generosity in sharing this plugin

jiminy-billy-bob

Thanks everybody for your kind words, comments and feedback ! I really appriciate it.

ken

I have 4 layers that are in my template. I wanted to get this under a group, so I could turn all the layers off at once. They are xlines, markcenter, workplane and cline. When I try saving a template file, I get unexpected file format and the program closes. On trying to open Sketchup again, I get the failed to open template file. Sketchup open but not with the template file that I saved.

However, when I open the standby template file, saved as a regular file, and then try to save this file as a template with the name I used above, I get the file exist and do you wish to over write the file. So something was saved.

Just trying to keep you abreast.

Ken

jiminy-billy-bob

Thanks Ken, I'll look into that.

jiminy-billy-bob

New version 0.3.1 beta !

Changelog :

Fix group names disappearing

Download in the plugin store !

jiminy-billy-bob

Ken, were these 4 layers created before you installed the plugin ? What happen when you create a new file, create the same layers, and try to save it as template ?
If you find a way to reproduce the bug every time, that would be really great ! I could propably debug this

ken

@jiminy-billy-bob said:

Ken, were these 4 layers created before you installed the plugin ? What happen when you create a new file, create the same layers, and try to save it as template ?
If you find a way to reproduce the bug every time, that would be really great ! I could propably debug this

Well OK, I noticed that there were other versions of this plugin in my plugin folder. So I deleted all files associated with this plugin and did a re-install. It now appears to be working. I can save a template file, and re-open and have the four layers still there and in the group I added.

Hope this helps.

Ken

xkalvisx

I hope you have ever done:
Group - visible
Group - invisible
Should operate in a single click

Thank you

jiminy-billy-bob

What do you mean ? You can already hide/show groups with a single click.

jiminy-billy-bob

@unknownuser said:

Well OK, I noticed that there were other versions of this plugin in my plugin folder. So I deleted all files associated with this plugin and did a re-install. It now appears to be working. I can save a template file, and re-open and have the four layers still there and in the group I added.

Hope this helps.

Ken

Great ! I'm glad it works now.
But did you have the corrupt template multiple times ? I mean, was it just one time or was it systematic ?

EDIT : When you say you had multiple versions installed, was it a beta (layer_panel.rb) and an old alpha version (Layers Panel.rb) ? Otherwise, I don't understand how you can have multiple versions

jiminy-billy-bob

Okay, I find a way to reproduce the bug in version 0.3 :

Open blank file
Open LP's dialog
Create group
Save as template

I get "Incorrect format file" each time.

The good news is I don't get this with version 0.3.1 !
So it was probably related to the group names bug. So please update everybody !

Thanks a lot Ken for your feedback, it helped me a lot finding the way to reproduce it.

I hope it was the same problem cmeed had, even though he didn't save as template.

jiminy-billy-bob

For people understanding ruby :

I fully identified the cause of the problem : The plugin trying to save "nil" as an AttributeDictionary key.
@layerDictID being nil (the bug about group names)
@model.set_attribute("jbb_layerspanel_groups", @layerDictID, groupName)

ken

Well I was looking the plugin directory an found more than one layerpanel directory and some other files I believe came from other installations. I don't remember all the names, I just removed everything having to do with layerpanel. And re-installed and presto it works.

Thanks for looking into this plugin.

Wishing you luck.

Ken