We need to talk about .rui Rhino Toolbar

[Petras_Vestartas]

Hi,

For many years there are problems with .rui toolbars. When you install a new plugin sometimes:

a) toolbar is loaded or not
b) sometimes you need to load it manually from toolbar option
c) sometimes you need to load from your computer folder
d) for mac, in option c, you cannot even load manually the .rui file from the plugin folder because the folder is hidden. So you need to use even command line to find the file. Copy to desktop and then load. open "/Users/petras/Library/Application Support/McNeel/Rhinoceros/packages/8.0/COMPAS-IGS"

Please make it easier!

This little issue make a big fuzz when you need to teach 40 students and go one by one on each pc and explain these manually steps. Rather than focusing on the main topic of a class…

Please make it possible. It is not only my request, this issue comes again and again, without no solid answer…

[cognitdiss]

+1 on this longstanding problem. No consistency session to session even. It would be great if this loaded from the cloud with the license to ensure an even UI on all instances wherever the license holder was working. Porting across version upgrades would also be an important priority to me. I can’t tell you how much time I’ve spent re-forming my toolbars from machine to machine or upgrade to upgrade or all of the above, not a good sell for Rhino frankly.

[kiteboardshaper]

All of the above AND

Can we PLEASE have .rui update when updating a plugin. The current behavior of load the Rui once and never again change/update is just painful for developers and end users.

Cheers

DK

[Gijs (Gijs de Zwart)]

@Petras_Vestartas

toolbar is loaded or not

This one I need to verify with you if I understand this correctly. Are you saying that the RUI file is not loaded at all?

@Petras_Vestartas

b) sometimes you need to load it manually from toolbar option

RH-81206 Toolbars are not visible when installed with a plugin

@Petras_Vestartas

c) sometimes you need to load from your computer folder … d) …

I am reading this as a result of a) ?

@kiteboardshaper

Can we PLEASE have .rui update when updating a plugin. The current behavior of load the Rui once and never again change/update is just painful for developers and end users.

this one is logged as RH-84576 YAK package fails to update RUI file

I am assuming that covers your issue, but let me know if it isn’t

@cognitdiss

It would be great if this loaded from the cloud with the license to ensure an even UI on all instances wherever the license holder was working.

The idea of having a single settings file/folder has been on the list for long. I assume porting it to a cloud solution is not the hardest part.
RH-1110 Save all settings.

[Petras_Vestartas]

I am reading this as a result of a) ?

Yes. This specially happens when you install newer version of a plugin.

We really need solution to .RUI, because the problem stays the same from Rhino 5. And we are awate that youtrack issues are only made for this problem, but not solved and always “in-progress”.

[kiteboardshaper]

@Gijs YES - that issues tracker covers it.

Thanks

DK

[Petras_Vestartas]

We reconfirm with some of the students from the class that it is necessary to reload the toolbar.

Sometimes, the new toolbar does not load, especially if a plugin includes a new button in the new version that was installed using package manager.

The only reliable way to fix this is to navigate to the hidden folder where the packages are installed, delete everything, and reinstall.

[Gijs (Gijs de Zwart)]

@Petras_Vestartas Steve made a fix for that, that goes into 8.15 (the first RC will be 10th of Dec)

[Petras_Vestartas]

Thank you

[kiteboardshaper]

You cannot imagine how happy this make me:

Roll on RC8.15!