Sketchucation Tools 5.0.5

Gábor

said in Sketchucation Tools 5.0.4:

@Dave-R We haven't removed it, for me it is displayed correctly. When you have a few minutes to test, please PM me.

Thank you

Dave R

Thank you for whatever you did. It works as expected now.

Gábor

@Dave-R said in Sketchucation Tools 5.0.4:

Thank you for whatever you did. It works as expected now.

Thank you for checking.

coffeeholic53

I have installed the latest version (5.0.4) of Sketchucation Extension Store and like previous users get the "Loading... Click Continue if page does not refresh" message with a "Continue" button which appears to do nothing. I've read through Tig's responses and looked, using extension manager, for any extensions which don't report a version number. The only one I found was SCF Licence which doesn't have a version number, author, copyright details or description. All of the other plugins have version numbers and about a third of them need to be updated, which is why I installed the extension store. I seem to be going round in circles with this.

I'm using Sketchup Make 2017 (yes I know) and don't want to spend the large, to me, sum of money required to get a desktop version, as I'm just a hobbyist using the software for leisure. Is there any way to fix this problem or should I just give up and leave all the plugins as they are?

Rich O Brien

@coffeeholic53 said in Sketchucation Tools 5.0.4:

Is there any way to fix this problem or should I just give up and leave all the plugins as they are?

Just install extensions manually by downloading RBZ files from site.

2017 is using very old and no longer supported web dialog systems.

FlorinAp

Starting with version 5, the third button opens the default SketchUp Extension manager, so there is no way to create sets and manage.
The second and the third buttons always showed different packages (plugins and extensions), now you end up with the default SketchUp windows.
Maybe this was intentional... or maybe not - i just pointed out.

TIG

@FlorinAp
This change was intentional.
Over time the changes to the built-in Extensions Manager made it so much like our own that there seemed little purpose in the duplication. The loss of 'Sets' for the Extensions was decided on balance to be acceptable, because changes in how the SketchUp API allowed dynamic extension status setting has meant that our version was error prone. when doing this. Also the use of 'Sets' remains possible from within our Plugins Manager - because all extensions are also plugins [loading from a .RB file] it allows you to manipulate them in the same way with 'Sets' within that dialog...

Rich O Brien

v 5.0.5 published

Bug fixing for updates

RLGL

This post is deleted!

TIG

@rlgl

The error is currently a mystery to me.

It's showing an error for a missing file -
C:/Users/dvnj2/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2026/SketchUp/Plugins/Fredo6_FredoSection/FredoSection.plugin

Checking I see that I do not get the same error message - everything works fine.
AND I also see that the .plugin file does exists in my Plugins folder.
If an extension is not loaded [when its version would be readily findable],
then because the version is not immediately got the ExtensionStore in checking your current extensions' versions has to try and get them in other ways.
A version is usually readable from an extension's registration xxx.RB file - even if it's been disabled using our Plugins-Manager.
But a couple of authors - like @fredo6 - don't set the version in that file,
but use a unique hash system to read their settings in from a xxx.plugin text file, kept in each extension's subfolder.
To the best of my knowledge all of Fredo's extensions use this method, as does this one.

I can force the same SketchUcation error as yours, by manually removing the FredoSection.plugin from its subfolder.

There are two cases:

FredoSection is set to be loaded in the PluginsManager - this error is sidestepped because the FredoSection extension is enabled in the Extension-Manager and its version is readable from the its properties. However, the Extension' properties all report as empty, and so no version etc could be read in. In this case the ExtensionStore defaults to thinking it's '0' and ignores its version.
FredoSection is set to be unloaded in the PluginsManager - this error is then thrown because the FredoSection extension is not now enabled in the Extension-Manager and its version is not readable from the its properties AND the .plugin file that would otherwise return the version is also not found. The error prevents the ExtensionStore from completing its version checking. This error could be sidestepped, but them you don't find out there's an issue with your FredoSection setup.

So this suggests to me that your installation of FredoSection extension is incomplete and the ../Fredo6_FredoSection/FredoSection.plugin is missing,
If you were not using the SketchUcation extension at all you would not get an error at startup, but just empty details in the ExtensionManager listing.
How did you install the FredoSection extension ?
If you have somehow copied files/folders from another Plugins folder this might have missed out vital files. Manual copying and the new su 'migration' tools can cause weirdness...

Please try reinstalling the extension and checking that ../Plugins/Fredo6_FredoSection/FredoSection.plugin file now exists, and the SketchUcation extension loads OK.
You can install from its RBZ using the Extension-Manager, download it from our PluginStore.
Alternatively you can close SketchUp, and find the file:
C:/Users/dvnj2/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2026/SketchUp/Plugins/Fredo6_FredoSection.rb!
and rename it as:
C:/Users/dvnj2/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2026/SketchUp/Plugins/Fredo6_FredoSection.rb
i.e. without the ! at the end which was added to disable it.
After a restart this will allow SketchUcation's ExtensionStore to load and you can now use its dialog to reinstall the FredoSection extension, rather than using an RBZ.
See if the FredoSection.plugin file is installed properly and so on, and the the Extension-Manager now reports its proper details like author and version.
To stop even the currently faulty FredoSection file set from partially loading and tripping up the ExtensionStore you can use the Extension-Manager to disable the extension, rather than use the PluginManager.
A very remote possibility - if the .plugin file does indeed exist, but SketchUp can't find it, perhaps it is for some reason unreadable - so check its Security Properties.