You may want to consider what happens when a user that has a license has no internet connection or, in light of what happened earlier today, when sketchucation isn't available to respond to the request for license verification.
I am a bit shocked that the entire system here seems to run on the same server and a small mysql issue can bring down the entire system. Remember, the moment you start selling stuff you have to also deliver a certain quality of service.
Maybe I missed something so please correct me, but from what I gather these newer versions mean whenever someone now updates they are suddenly greeted with a prompt to buy a license after 30 days when their previously installed version was perpetually free.
While I agree that work should be compensated and the plugins are quite good for their pricing, essentially pulling the rug out underneath people that might have used these plugins quite often is what I would call a "dick move".
I get it, there weren't many donations coming in and the level of work required to maintain the plugins and do support for them is quite something and doing that for free is a lot to ask, but equally I suspect if the plugins weren't free to begin with they likely would never have grown to that point. In a way it also alienates a lot of users that otherwise might not have the capacity to purchase the licenses. At least setting up another payment gateway to allow more international purchases. Coincidentally that's usually part of the reason people do no donate as they otherwise cannot use the particular gateway provided.
It's strange to watch this unfold and get a lot of attention while other portions of the forum seem to sit abandoned almost. I posted the other day about something and didn't get a response for two weeks now. I'm not entirely on board with Sketchucation expanding into the realms of paid things when it has been a bastion and counter to the inherent commercialization Trimble has embarked on with Sketchup. For this place and the plugins and resources it provided to just follow that notion is sad to see.
Not sure what to name the topic since I have a few questions starting out with plugin development and not really finding the right sections in the documentation for what I want to do. (google-fu is failing me)
The biggest thing I cannot find is how to query the user for input to select a folder via the save as.. dialog. I want to select two folders for exporting models to so I need to specify them somehow. Also need to set some export parameters so need to add a few checkboxes as well. Ideally I want to pop up a small window to set these two folders up and then save them somewhere between sessions so I only have to set it up once. How would I go about generating that popup and set these boxes up?
Is there a way to intercept the CTRL + S save command so I could use that as trigger for an export?
As I am exporting to stl it would make sense to run Solid Inspector before exporting things. Can a plugin trigger another plugin with parameters? i.e. Solid Inspector->selected model
If anyone could link me the relevant parts of the documentation that would be great, I can't seem to search for the correct words :S
Scaled up by a factor of 100 it no longer crashes. Maybe build in an error if things get too small so it does not immediately crash?
This is the path: https://i.imgur.com/HOQ8AC1.png
Settings are: https://i.imgur.com/6EdzK9f.png
Error Loading File !AdditionalPluginFolders.rb
uninitialized constant AdditionalPluginFolders6;;SketchupExtensionError Loading File C;/PROGRA~2/Google/GOOGLE~1/Plugins/SketchUcation/SCF_loader.rb
(eval);324;in `log_setup'; uninitialized constant SCF;;SCF;;TEMPDIRError Loading File SketchUcation.rb
(eval);324;in `log_setup'; uninitialized constant SCF;;SCF;;TEMPDIR
Getting this now when loading existing projects. What do I do to fix it?
I reinstalled the whole set after manually removing them from the plugins folder, same message pops up, but now the tools do not work, non of the windows open. What am I doing wrong?
I keep getting the same Message: LibFredo6 will be updated at the next startup...
I have already changed the permissions and took ownership of the whole Sketchup folder. After that message the SketchUcation Toolset one appears. The extension and plugins manager won't open, but the store was updated properly. LibFredo seems to be up to date as well and I can open its windows. I am still on Sketchup 8 btw.