In this case RLGL was suggesting temporarily disabling extensions to see if they were responsible for the problem the OP reported. If you read the thread you will see that it was indeed an extension that caused it and the author of that extension fixed the problem.
It’s not uncommon to find that extensions clash and cause weird issues. Disabling them temporarily can be useful in diagnosing the problem.
Edit: You added text while I was typing. The problem in the OP’s case was due to a version of LibFredo6 but he corrected that problem with a new release. There have been many more releases of his extension since then (38 as of today). Make sure you are using the latest version. If you had been using the Sketchucation Extension Store tool, it would make it easy to keep Fredo6’s extensions up to date.
Regarding this comment of yours, I’m not sure what is with some of your comments sometimes to other users, where did you assume I didn’t read the thread? I read the thread. I fully understand about temporarily disabling and that’s not what he said in his comment, he said “Plugin disable” yada yada, nothing about doing this temporarily. That’s why I responded as I’m just pointing out it’s not so easy for people using a ton of plugins like myself.
I’m sorry for responding. In the context of the thread, it seems clear to me that he meant temporarily disabling extensions to determine if an extension is responsible and which one.
Thanks for the tip on the sketchucation plugin for updating, that actually would save me a lot of time and even though I have it I never use it, purely for updating purposes though is something I never thought of, I don’t really like using it to find new plugins but the updating thing sounds good. I’ll try and make sure all of my stuff is updated and during that period where eveyrthing is totally up to date I’ll try and see if the problem goes away and if it does I’ll probably make a thread and report about it.
Thanks and if you find anything else out in the mean time would love to know as I’m growing quite tired of having two sketchup windows open all the time.
I haven’t seen the grayed out menu items referred to here since I installed the update to LibFredo6 that Fredo released back in November of 2019. I haven’t seen any other reports of this from anyone who had updated, either.
You need to be using it to install extensions from Sketchucation to get it to keep track of them and let you know there are extensions to update. Personally I find it much easier to use it for searching for and installing extensions than searching for, downloading and then manually installing them through Extension Manager. Using it also means that I can quickly and easily install the same extensions when I move to a new SketchUp version or to another computer.
I didn’t know that, I don’t know much about it. I just looked at the updates area of it and that’s aweome so it definitely will help me out. I appreciate it, thank you!
Hey @Fredo6 this seems to be back in the latest version of 2021 and Libfredo11.9b.
Only popped up again after I updated 2021, I even repaired it to check and updated Libfredo. Still happening, any ideas if it might be from your end?
Yes, I do. I had it disabled before but it started itself up again when I updated 2021.
I disabled it just before I posted here, and haven’t been working again so can’t say if disabling it stopped the issue.
I’ve been seeing this again, too, since 2021.1.1 but I have not yet installed LOTT. Disabling LibFredo6 seems to have cleared it up. I suspect it’s a change on the Sketchup side that caused it. When I first started seeing it LibFredo6 hadn’t been updated for some time.
Update: I disabled LibFredo6 and all my plugins, and I still get the gray-out syndrom after 70 right-clicks on an object (doing nothing else after starting Sketchup)
If anyone has the time, could s/he try to reproduce it.
New Update: I disabled ALL plugins in SU2021.1. I stll get the gray-out syndrom after 127 right-clicks.
It seems that the problem is in Sketchup 2021.1. Simply, the number of plugins loaded, among which mine, would make the gray-out appear quicker because it looks to be be senseitive to the number of commands loaded from plugins (and my plugins have many).