[Plugin] Shortcutter Beta

Rich O Brien

I sent you a long rambling email rather than put it here.

But, yes, this make no sense whatsoever.

driven

@tig said:

When v2015 installs and brings over the earlier versions shortcuts does it not make Plugins >>> Extensions, maybe not...

certainly not on the mac...
thats why I wrote the short script I posted earlier...
There was also a post in the 'doh' forum that implied you needed to edit the dat on PC...

couldn't the search and replace be added to this, for those in need?

john

TIG

So Trimble have messed up.
They transfer shortcuts from an earlier version, but seem to keep useless Plugins/... entries, because they need to refer to menu Extensions/... - assuming you have the same scripts installed [eventually].

Sorry for MAC users - don't know about editing plists etc...

So my PC ideas of exporting the "Preferences.dat" from v2015, editing it with Notepad++ to replace Plugins/ with Extensions/, saving, then importing back into v2015, overwriting existing shortcuts...
WOULD fix the issue.
Meanwhile "Shortcutter" can show up the issue as having 'Plugins' items listed in v2015 means you have NOT go a proper shortcut list set up !

driven

@tig said:

Sorry for MAC users - don't know about editing plists etc...

that's why I posted the code...
it's very easy from ruby...
here it is again...

require "pathname"
target = Pathname(Sketchup.find_support_files("").grep(/User/)[0]).parent
shortcuts = Pathname(target + "Shortcuts.plist")           
File.write(shortcuts,File.open(shortcuts,&;read).gsub("Plugins","Extensions")) if File.exists?(shortcuts)

Dave R

FWIW, I just got to my PC. I checked and it was showing "Plugin" under the Shortcutter. I exported Preferences.dat, opened it, edited to replace all instances of 'Plugins' with 'Extensions. Saved, re-imported and checked the Shortcutter again. Now it shows 'Extensions' as TIG described. Easy conversion.