[Plugin] Simple Plugin Installer (1.1.0) — 03 December 2012

[john2]

any plans to further advance this into a full fledged plugin manager that allows u to uninstall plugins too?

Nope! It's too big of a project - I have too many other projects on my hand. But Dana is working such a manager.

where's that plugin any idea

[thomthom]

It is under development - along side with a plugin repository.

[irwanwr]

Requirements
SketchUp 8M2 or newer - ( Other versions untested )

oops...

[john2]

It is under development - along side with a plugin repository.

no beta version ..link 4 download??

[Dave R]

Just relax. It'll be available when it is available.

[thomthom]

It is under development - along side with a plugin repository.

no beta version ..link 4 download??

Keep an eye on this site: http://www.extendsketchup.com/

As Dave said - it's done when it's done. He's working on it along side his full time job - like I do. Making it very hard to promise a deadline. (It's hard even if it is your full time job any way... )

[thomthom]

Hmm.... IE10 might not come until Windows8 is out... I hope it comes earlier - as I think Windows 8 comes late this year.

[guanjin]

Hmm.... IE10 might not come until Windows8 is out... I hope it comes earlier - as I think Windows 8 comes late this year.

Really good, but can not load the RB file, tried many, will not work!

[Dave R]

Really good, but can not load the RB file, tried many, will not work!

That's mostly useless if you're asking for help. You have given nothing for anyone to help you with. Go back to the first post and make sure you've installed the plugin so it shows as described under "Footprint"

Footprint

<Sketchup>/Plugins/
+-

tt_simple_installer.rb

If you don't get it to work, post a screen shot of your Plugins directory or give something useful so you can be helped.

[thomthom]

Hmm.... IE10 might not come until Windows8 is out... I hope it comes earlier - as I think Windows 8 comes late this year.

Really good, but can not load the RB file, tried many, will not work!

As Dave said, you need to be more spesific. How did you try to "load" the plugin? And what "doesn't work"? Unexpected behaviour? Errors? Menu items not found?

[guanjin]

Hmm.... IE10 might not come until Windows8 is out... I hope it comes earlier - as I think Windows 8 comes late this year.

Really good, but can not load the RB file, tried many, will not work!

As Dave said, you need to be more spesific. How did you try to "load" the plugin? And what "doesn't work"? Unexpected behaviour? Errors? Menu items not found?

RB can not import files??Thank you!

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[TIG]

Guanjin
Read what it says about non-ASCII characters in file-paths...
Ruby's 'File' tools [in Sketchup's v1.8~] can't accept UTF-8 characters... like in your Chinese!

[guanjin]

Guanjin
Read what it says about non-ASCII characters in file-paths...
Ruby's 'File' tools [in Sketchup's v1.8~] can't accept UTF-8 characters... like in your Chinese!

Most use UTF - 8 characters! !
TIG welcomes you to China, I will entertain you

[thomthom]

Most use UTF - 8 characters! !

Unfortunately this is a limitation due to the Ruby version SketchUp use. There is nothing we(plugin developers) can do. It needs to be addressed by Google

[tomasz]

Most use UTF - 8 characters! !

Unfortunately this is a limitation due to the Ruby version SketchUp use. There is nothing we(plugin developers) can do. It needs to be addressed by Google

It can be done through a C/C++ extension. I have it in mind to create such a 'library', but I am currently too busy to invest my time in it.
SU2Thea can save/read files containing non-ASCII characters in their paths/filenames.

[thomthom]

It can be done through a C/C++ extension. I have it in mind to create such a 'library', but I am currently too busy to invest my time in it.

Ditto.
I tried to make Google add such helper methods.

It is only an issue under Windows though. So only a Windows C Extension is required. OSX works fine.

[newrui]

Hello. Any chance for something for us mac users?

[thomthom]

Version 1.0.2

• Fixed: Installed RB files are now loaded after installation - avoiding restart.

[thomthom]

Hello. Any chance for something for us mac users?

? This plugin should be usable for OSX users... Are you getting errors?

[Dave R]

Thomas, it works fine on Mac for me.

[thomthom]

Thanks Dave. I'd be surprised if it didn't. Now we can only ponder what the question was related to...

[thomthom]

Version 1.0.3

• Added: RBS support.

[guanjin]

Version 1.0.3

• Added: RBS support.

Load error version SU8M2

未命名.jpg

[thomthom]

Version 1.0.3

• Added: RBS support.

Load error version SU8M2

未命名.jpg

That doesn't seem to be related to this plugin. It refer to a "window style.rb" plugin that tries to load "windows/api.rb".

[Dave R]

Probably the plugin by dukejazz.

[guanjin]

Probably the plugin by dukejazz.

Thank you, problem solved! Windows plug-in is not clean, delete

[Iceonfire]

I keep getting the message windows cannot open this file. When I try to have it select from a list of programs, it takes me to a bunch of PC cleaner sites. Any further direction?

[Gaieus]

Hi Katie,

You do not need to open or run these rb files (but if you are interested, open them with notepad as they are simple text files).

Simply copy the file into your plugins folder:
C:\Program Files\Google\Google SketchUp 8\Plugins
or
C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Google SketchUp 8\Plugins
on a 64 bit Windows, restart SketchUp and you are done.

Some more complex plugins consist of several files so they are usually distributed zipped in an archive. See this topic how to deal with them:
viewtopic.php?f=323&t=35746

Cheers and welcome!

[thomthom]

Changed the download to be a RBZ file only - and with screenshot description of how to install from within SketchUp.

[BlueAngel4]

Thanks man!