Dynamic Component Options Window Not Functioning

Technical Problems SketchUp
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The dynamic components options windows is not populating with user editable functions, neither edit as textbook or select from menu. The options functions work briefly after a restart, then fail to populate the options window. Re applying the edit attribute has no effect.

I am using version 19.1.173, Mac OS 10.14.2

Here are screenshots of a simple component created in SU 2019, length and width edit as text box are the only functions.

And a more complicated component with multiple options created in SU 2016. The on click functions work. Options are functional briefly after a restart.

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Save your work, close SketchUp and restart it. See if that makes a difference.

EDIT I see you already did that. You are on a different operating system to me. I have experienced this problem in Windows, which a SketchUp restart does fix. Weird though.

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Disable Dynamic Components in the Extensions Manager, close SketchUp and restart SketchUp . Enable them again in the EM
Only open the Options Dialog from the Context menu, not through the icon.

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Nothing in the options window. Even with a reboot of the computer. I had limited success in the past.

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Is the problem limited to one component or all?
When did it first happen?
What happens if you copy the component over to a fresh file?

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All components. Started in the last 2-3 weeks. At first a closing and re opening SU would solve the problem. When I open on another machine, the options window populates when first opened, then fails to find the component.

When the component is copied to a fresh file the component does not copy, only the sub components. Sub component formulas referencing the component are intact.

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this is due to opening through the icons. Don’t do that.

Window->Extension Manager:

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then be sure to press apply:

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Totally close SketchUp (SketchUp->Quit) use 'Force quit’if you also have SU-Podium installed :grinning:

Restart, enable the DC again and be sure to only open the Options by rightclicking:

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not the icons…

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Wait, do you say Dynamic Components has a bug that breaks it if the user uses a toolbar command rather than a context menu command?

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I am using the context commands

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Ah! You should not be that surprised about there being a bug with the DC?:wink:

It is easy to reproduce and indeed, because the DC hasn’t had good attention for a while, this bug persists for quit some time,among more in the DC…

This is how to reproduce on Windows:

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Restarting on Windows will fix, but you need to follow described method on Mac…

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D:

DC doesn’t contain bugs. DC is a bug…

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I wouldn’t go that far, but the numerous issues should be fixed and the functionality should be integrated into the core application, asap.

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