Alpabetize plugins/extensions in the pulldown list?
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I'm now setting up 2015, and have installed most of the plugins I use. However they're a jumble. any way to alphabetize the list. Is there some simple text file that can be edited?
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They appear in the menu in the order that they are loaded at startup. Essentially SketchUp loads each file in your plugins folder one by one. The menu items added by that extension then get loaded.
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@chris fullmer said:
They appear in the menu in the order that they are loaded at startup. Essentially SketchUp loads each file in your plugins folder one by one. The menu items added by that extension then get loaded.
I did not notice while installing, but the extensions appear in the drop down in the order I installed them. I assume if I had planned it out better and installed alphabetically, that's how they would be displayed. Then again, when I later add an additional extension, it would fall at the end regardless of the letter name. I was hoping there was some sort of SU plugin bat file that could be edited to keep the extensions in the order one might want.
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@calypsoart said:
... the extensions appear in the drop down in the order I installed them.
this is only for the session in which they arefirstloaded, when you restart the order is based on the alphabetical order of the extension/plugin filename not it's menubar item name...
so if a plugin filename is aadvark.rb but has a menu name zzoro it will be positioned above most...
there is a complicated way of changing the order using code, but you will need to learn ruby...
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Guess this never happened?
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@krisidious said:
Guess this never happened?
there are actually a few of this type out there, and all rely on same basic principle...
rename the plugins folder, add a 'controller ruby' to a new plugins folder...
the 'controller' can then loads in a user defined sequential order...
the cons to this approach are EW warehouse downloads will break it, SCF downloads will break it, Prefs 'add extensions' will break it...
so if you really want a headache, it's a good option...
john
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The SketchUcation toolset's Plugins Manager displays your Plugins' files by name order, and its Extensions Manager lists the Extensions' by name order too...
To order menus by the items' names is not practicable.
The files adding them load in alphabetical order, by loaded folder, but the menu item's name will never follow the file's name...Back in SketchUp v5/6, when there were far fewer plugins, I set up a tool that did the restructuring of categorized plugins under plugins submenus, by renaming their files and editing their menu-loading code, but this is entirely unworkable given the explosion in the number of plugins available, and their complexity and the disproportionate efforts involved in updating any such setup, etc.
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