| Sketchup colorpicker additions break other applications | meecect | 10/23/09 8:53 PM | SketchUp version: 7.1 Operating system: Mac OSX 10.6.1 Snow Leopard This problem has been outstanding for at least 2 years now, has been reported, but doesn't even appear on the 'known issues' page and certainly is not fixed. The additions sketchup |
| Re: Sketchup colorpicker additions break other applications | Colin Holgate | 10/24/09 7:26 AM | I've never noticed that. Are there particular steps, or programs to have open at the time, that would show it happening? |
| Re: Sketchup colorpicker additions break other applications | meecect | 10/24/09 8:08 AM | Add any material to the favorites section on the bottom, like a brick texture or similar. Then whether sketchup is open or closed ( or even if it is uninstalled ) try opening another application that uses the color picker. I've seen the behavior in |
| Re: Sketchup colorpicker additions break other applications | meecect | 10/24/09 8:47 AM | Here is the error, btw: *** -[NSKeyedUnarchiver decodeObjectForKey:]: cannot decode object of class (SketchUpColor) It's because you have subclassed the type of objects on the palette, but only sketchup knows how to interpret those classes, so other |
| Re: Sketchup colorpicker additions break other applications | Colin Holgate | 10/24/09 9:37 AM | It's quite clever how that all works. With Pages and Keynote from iWork '09 I don't get the "needs to close" message. I do get one telling me to quit and reopen Keynote (Pages doesn't seem too bothered by it all), but you don't have to quit, and you |
| Re: Sketchup colorpicker additions break other applications | catamountain | 10/24/09 9:51 AM | Have you filed a bug report? Discussion threads are not bug reports. Go to Help > Contact Us. |
| Re: Sketchup colorpicker additions break other applications | meecect | 10/24/09 10:08 AM | bug report filed. It's a pretty lame workaround, because it means you can't really use the favorites swatch with materials as intended otherwise every other program that uses the color picker nags you constantly about it. For keynote, I was guessi |
| Re: Sketchup colorpicker additions break other applications | Colin Holgate | 10/24/09 11:53 AM | Well done for the sleuthing about SketchUp to be to blame. It may well be that the right solution would be to make the Mac Materials work like the Windows one, and not try to leverage the built in system color palette. Another solution would be to co |
| Re: Sketchup colorpicker additions break other applications | Tommy | 10/29/09 8:46 AM | Agreed. Nice investigation, meecect. This is definitely an issue with the way that SketchUp is implemented. Fixing it isn't strait forward at the moment, but I'll send out updates when they become available. Many thanks. |
| Re: Sketchup colorpicker additions break other applications | ericgorr | 11/4/09 5:52 PM | In case you haven't seen it yet, I have my own thread on this issue at: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/sketchup/thread?tid=6c1bcdd7c0cc40ed&hl=en&fid=6c1bcdd7c0cc40ed00047795e90bb1ff I am not convinced that SketchUp is necessarily to blame h |
| Re: Sketchup colorpicker additions break other applications | Tommy | 11/6/09 2:04 PM | Hi Eric, Many thanks for your bug report. The screen-capture video is awesome. This will be helpful as we keep investigating this one. |
| Re: Sketchup colorpicker additions break other applications | dabel | 1/10/10 7:17 AM | The fix for me was to trash the NSColorPanelSwatches.plist in the user's Library/Colors/ folder. Any attempt to edit out the SketchUpColor entry in a plist editor ends up trashing the file regardless. |
| Re: Sketchup colorpicker additions break other applications | catamountain | 1/10/10 10:04 PM | dabel, Can you file a bug report to report your finding? Add a link to this thread as a reference about the problem. Go to Help > Contact Us to begin navigating to the bug form. Be sure to add more particulars about your system in the report. |
| Re: Sketchup colorpicker additions break other applications | ericgorr | 4/7/10 8:28 AM | For those who are interested, with the release of 10.6.3, the crashes have stopped. What happens now is when Apple’s Color picker comes across data it does not understand, it will display a gray filled box. The custom data is still there, but can o |
| Re: Sketchup colorpicker additions break other applications | Colin Holgate | 4/8/10 7:47 AM | Thanks for the update. One day they will really fix it, but at least no crashing for now. |
| Re: Sketchup colorpicker additions break other applications | Tommy | 4/9/10 7:25 AM | Thanks for the update, ericgorr. I'll be sure to update our documentation about this issue with your findings. Many thanks again :-) |
| Re: Sketchup colorpicker additions break other applications | BiertjeNL | 4/7/11 2:53 AM | Thanx! My VectorWorks 2011 crashed each time I used the colorpicker. The solution of dabel worked great for me! Ronald |