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Lock toolbars

Postby Juju » Sun Apr 20, 2008 8:41 pm

I've had to arrange my toolbars for the third/fourth time today. Really annoying! I hope this will be fixed soon so one can lock your tools (menu top and left) in position so in the even of something happening you don't have to rearrange them afterwards.

I think this has been mentioned (requested) in the wishlist before, hope it gets the attention it deserves.
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Re: Lock toolbars

Postby Jim » Sun Apr 20, 2008 8:48 pm

+1
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Re: Lock toolbars

Postby Juju » Sun Apr 20, 2008 8:57 pm

Make that five times today I've had to rearrange the toolbars... :evil:
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Re: Lock toolbars

Postby remus » Sun Apr 20, 2008 8:58 pm

Julian, why dont you get rid of all your toolbars and jsut use keyboard shortcuts? it takes a bit of getting used to but its a lot faster :geek:
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Re: Lock toolbars

Postby Juju » Sun Apr 20, 2008 9:07 pm

Remus, thanks for the concern. The answer to your question / suggestion is because I prefer toolbars to keyboard shortcuts.
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Re: Lock toolbars

Postby remus » Sun Apr 20, 2008 9:15 pm

as good a reason as any ;)
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Re: Lock toolbars

Postby Jim » Sun Apr 20, 2008 10:26 pm

I made this video back in February. It gets less funny every time it happens. There's a lot of talk about V7 features, but if all it does is fix the toolbars, I'd be happy.

http://sketchuptips.blogspot.com/2008/0 ... lbars.html
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Re: Lock toolbars

Postby remus » Sun Apr 20, 2008 10:34 pm

Poetic justice: my window has been messed u the last 2/3 times i opened SU :lol:
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Re: Lock toolbars

Postby a4chitect » Mon Apr 28, 2008 8:31 am

there is a little trick to help you, once you are happy with your toolbar arrangement, close sketchup (the UI gets saved internally). anytime your screen gets resized, or messed up, or your toolbars change - don't close sketchup, open another instance of sketchup - this one opens with the original UI. then close both windows but make sure that you close the clean and tidy @last :D

this way your clean UI gets saved as last overwriting the messy one (since all instances of sketchup share one UI setting)
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Re: Lock toolbars

Postby Juju » Mon Apr 28, 2008 9:04 am

Thanks for that little trick, I'll keep it in mind.

My wish still stands though.
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Re: Lock toolbars

Postby Frederik » Mon Apr 28, 2008 1:13 pm

+1

Haven't had this problem until this weekend...
Apart from the Subdivide/smooth plug-in, I haven't installed anything that would/should make this happen and I haven't even resized SU... :evil:
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Re: Lock toolbars

Postby Anssi » Mon Apr 28, 2008 8:23 pm

The least they could do was to add a Reset Toolbars/Windows button somewhere for the poor things who have lost their Shadows dialog or some other feature while messing around with dual screens or screen resolutions or other features.

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Re: Lock toolbars

Postby genma saotome » Tue Apr 29, 2008 3:53 am

I'd be happy if they allowed us to add / remove individual icons from the toolbars. You know, like every other software package has done since the introdution of Windows 2.1
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Re: Lock toolbars

Postby remus » Tue Apr 29, 2008 6:31 am

...except office 2007 :P

ANd yes, being able to customise toolbars would also be a nice feature.
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Re: Lock toolbars

Postby Juju » Tue Apr 29, 2008 8:29 am

Anssi wrote:The least they could do was to add a Reset Toolbars/Windows button somewhere for the poor things who have lost their Shadows dialog or some other feature while messing around with dual screens or screen resolutions or other features.

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genma saotome wrote:I'd be happy if they allowed us to add / remove individual icons from the toolbars. You know, like every other software package has done since the introdution of Windows 2.1


remus wrote:...except office 2007 :P

ANd yes, being able to customise toolbars would also be a nice feature.


I believe that would constitute a new wish, thus creation of a new thread in the wishlist.
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Re: Lock toolbars

Postby Gaieus » Tue Apr 29, 2008 8:29 am

remus wrote:...except office 2007 :P ...

That's why I uninstalled it :D
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Re: Lock toolbars

Postby Bep » Sat May 17, 2008 10:56 pm

And fly-out toolbars would be great.

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Re: Lock toolbars

Postby utiler » Sun May 18, 2008 12:46 am

Juju wrote:I've had to arrange my toolbars for the third/fourth time today. Really annoying! I hope this will be fixed soon so one can lock your tools (menu top and left) in position so in the even of something happening you don't have to rearrange them afterwards.

I think this has been mentioned (requested) in the wishlist before, hope it gets the attention it deserves.


I'm with you Julian and all, very annoying. I tend to use minimum toolbars to the top and 'float' the Large tooset to the left of the screen....

Custom toolbars would be great also; I notice that MAC SU has an undo / redo toolbar by itself. [please correct me if I am wrong] PC SU has it in the 'Standard' toolbar which takes up valuable screen. Would be great to have a separate toolbar instead of Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+Y...
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Re: Lock toolbars

Postby ely862me » Sun May 18, 2008 12:52 am

+1
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Re: Lock toolbars

Postby remus » Sun May 18, 2008 8:56 am

Andrew, ive got a feeling the toolbars are completely customisable in macSU, although i might be wrong as ive never actually tried it. It would cetainly be nice to have this feature for windows, would certainly help to maximise working space.
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Re: Lock toolbars

Postby utiler » Mon May 19, 2008 12:40 am

you bet Remus, let's hope!!
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Re: Lock toolbars

Postby wq418 » Tue Jun 24, 2008 8:16 am

me too
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Re: Lock toolbars

Postby Dave R » Sun Jul 13, 2008 5:09 pm

Add my request to the wishlist.
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Re: Lock toolbars

Postby MALAISE » Sun Jul 13, 2008 5:32 pm

ToolsBar , a whole subject of annoying. Please, could SketchUp Team make some improvement to fix positions. I'm joining others friends about this problem. :(
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Re: Lock toolbars

Postby plot-paris » Sun Jul 13, 2008 5:37 pm

it is indeed a pain in the a***! please do something about it, Google!
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Re: Lock toolbars

Postby dazza » Mon Jul 14, 2008 1:31 pm

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Re: Lock toolbars

Postby chango70 » Mon Jul 14, 2008 4:16 pm

Has anyone been working with really small buttons? I mean when you untick the View - Toolbars - Large Button? I haven't had problems with unsticking icons since i started using small (tiny) buttons which admittedly is a bit of a strain on one's eyes.
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Re: Lock toolbars

Postby Tobobo » Tue Jul 22, 2008 12:13 pm

Photoshop and CAD for that matter have the ability to save profiles for different users. This would solve the issues of toolbars and also templates, and the profile could include Rubys as well.
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Re: Lock toolbars

Postby boofredlay » Thu Jul 24, 2008 4:38 am

I cannot say how many times I have mentioned that I want locking toolbars but here I go again...
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Re: Lock toolbars

Postby Burkhard » Thu Jul 24, 2008 10:54 am

Tobobo wrote:Photoshop and CAD for that matter have the ability to save profiles for different users. This would solve the issues of toolbars and also templates, and the profile could include Rubys as well.


It doesn't make sense if in my profile the toolbars are unlocked again :knockout:
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