Options Component Dialog box doesn't work

[lucianaklein]

Hello everyone!
I am using the Sketchup 2020 Pro version.
I am studying dynamic components.
Sometimes the Component Options dialog box opens and sometimes it doesn’t and I don’t know why.
I made a component yesterday, it was working, when I opened the program today, it doesn’t work anymore.
It is very simple, a box in which I type height, width and thickness.
I’ve already opened a new file, redid the whole process and it doesn’t work.
I don’t know what may be going on.
Any tips to help me?

Picture below:

Thanks!

Luciana Klein

[colin]

We do have a bug report about this. Here’s a discussion that includes the steps needed to make it go wrong, and so to keep it working right, don’t do these steps!

Components don't appear in "Component Option" Window

I realized what you had asked now. The \u issue normally only happens in Windows, where it is very easy to accidentally name a file starting with ‘u’, and the \ comes from the Windows path. I am sure that is still a problem. On Mac you can make the same error happen by starting the file name with ‘\u’, which it seems is a legal filename, that happens to trigger the same Unicode related problem. So, no, it isn’t fixed.

[lucianaklein]

Thank you Colin!

I will follow that thread.

Cheers,

Luciana

[ivanjones]

I have the same problem. I found a fix here somewhere and cannot find it again. A poster gave a script to create as a text file and name it with a .RB or maybe a .RBZ extension and place it in your extension folder so it loads when sketchup is loaded. It worked great but now the file is gone. I think it got deleted doing some updates using extension manager, Now I cant find that post. Let me know if anyone finds it!!!

[ivanjones]

Ha I found it!!!

class Sketchup::Model
if not self.instance_methods.include?(:deleted?)
def deleted?
!valid?
end
end
end

Put in a text file called fix.rb

[rwamoore]

Thread here:

@DanRathbun

So for a fix, a fix script can be dropped into the Plugins folder …

unless Sketchup::Model.method_defined? :deleted?
  class Sketchup::Model
    def deleted?
      !valid?()
    end
  end # class
end # unless