How to prevent the ExtensionStore window opening.
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Hi, is there a way to prevent the ExtensionStore window from always opening when SU is run or when opening another file from an existing window? It's starting to get rather annoying!
Thanks in advance.
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Are you still using SketchUp 8 as indicated in your profile? What version of the Extension Store are you using?
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@dave r said:
Are you still using SketchUp 8 as indicated in your profile? What version of the Extension Store are you using?
Ahh oops forgot to update my profile! I'm now using SU Make 2016 & the latest version of the Extension that was freshly downloaded & installed just a few days ago.
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It shouldn't open on start. v2 on older SU installs had a screen flash but newer versions don't.
Could you be referring to Fredo's Update Checker?
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How did you install its RBZ ?
If you installed it using Preferences > Extensions > Install Extension... then everything should be in the correct locations and load properly.
If files are misplaced you might well get something starting up unexpectedly.
The dialog should only ever open when you click on the tool's Toolbar or the equivalent submenu item...The ExtensionStore³ comes in the RBZ with the 'loader' RB named '
SketchUcation.rb
' and a subfolder named 'SketchUcation
' - containing several other files and subfolders of files.
The attached image shows what that subfolder's contents should look like...If any of those files are 'loose' within your Plugins folder you are likely to have weirdness...
Remove them all...
Perhaps you inadvertently copied things from an earlier SketchUp ?
It's probably safest to remove the SketchUcation subfolder and RB and reinstall from scratch...For the avoidance of doubt, your Plugins folder is here...
C:\Users\YOUR_WINDOWS_USER_NAME\AppData\Roaming\SketchUp\SketchUp 2016\SketchUp\Plugins
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@tig said:
How did you install its RBZ ?
If you installed it using Preferences > Extensions > Install Extension... then everything should be in the correct locations and load properly.
If files are misplaced you might well get something starting up unexpectedly.
The dialog should only ever open when you click on the tool's Toolbar or the equivalent submenu item...The ExtensionStore³ comes in the RBZ with the 'loader' RB named '
SketchUcation.rb
' and a subfolder named 'SketchUcation
' - containing several other files and subfolders of files.
The attached image shows what that subfolder's contents should look like...If any of those files are 'loose' within your Plugins folder you are likely to have weirdness...
Remove them all...
Perhaps you inadvertently copied things from an earlier SketchUp ?
It's probably safest to remove the SketchUcation subfolder and RB and reinstall from scratch...For the avoidance of doubt, your Plugins folder is here...
C:\Users\YOUR_WINDOWS_USER_NAME\AppData\Roaming\SketchUp\SketchUp 2016\SketchUp\Plugins
That's the way I installed it, but just in case something messed up I removed all other extensions through the manager, closed SU2016, went to the plugins folder and deleted the sketchUcation one & made sure there were no extraneous files left behind, then restarted the laptop, redownloaded v3.0.1 of the sketchUcation extension, opened SU2016 & installed the extension via Preferences > Extensions > Install Extension and then closed & restarted SU2016 again.
The first thing that popped up was the ExtensionStore window and it's still behaving badly as before, opening every time SU2016 is launched, every time I go to File > New and when I open an existing file from any folder without SU2016 already running. This is with & without any other extensions installed, enabled or disabled, so something is borked somewhere for sure, I just don't know where.
Is there one of the extension's .rb scripts I can modify to comment out the bit that opens the ExtensionStore window? I'm not going to browse & download stuff from there anyway (I' rather do that in a full web-browser window) so if I can just nuke that bit of code then that'll suit me just fine.
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Now I think I see the issue...
You are perhaps a new [or renamed] user of the SketchUcation toolset on that computer ?
Each SketchUcation toolset user is 'registered' on each computer that they use it on.
So because you have not yet registered, there is an ExtensionStore dialog which opens at start up, and you simply need to log-in to SketchUcation using that.
Enter your SketchUcation member-name and current SketchUcation password in the two fields nad submit them.
You'll need at internet connection at that time...
Once your details are received and verified by the SketchUcation server [it takes only a second] an encrypted version of your data is saved in your user's AppData subfolder [rather like a 'cookie'], and thereafter you should not see that SketchUcation log-in dialog again at start up, unless of course you have deliberately logged-out of the main ExtensionStore dialog [bottom-right (|) button], in which case you will be prompted to log-in again...If you have any issues with this come back again...
PS: Although the Plugins and Extensions Managers can be used to disable other scripts, the ExtensionStore cannot disable itself !
So it will load at start up.
You could however disable its Extension using the native Preferences > Extensions dialog, but then you'll lose all of its tools...
If you are going to do that you might want to enable all Plugins in its Manager - otherwise these will not be visible to SketchUp at all...PPS: Please ensure that you also have the latest version of Internet Explorer installed [v11?] - SketchUp needs it - and that your Internet Options [Control Panel] is not set to be too strict etc
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