What events trigger Sketchup to call Tool.enableVCB?

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It seems a tool call enableVCB? when a mouse button is pressed. For various reasons I want to force Sketchup to call this method - that is I want to force Sketchup to enable the VCB. Is there a way of doing that, like producing some kind of harmless dummy event (except button down)?

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The things I can find that will make SU query enableVCB? is:

  • activate
  • onLButtonDown
  • onLButtonUp
  • onLButtonDblClick
  • onRButtonDown
  • onReturn

Disables VCB:

  • deactivate
  • suspend

Uses cached state:

  • resume (suspend cache the state)

But I’m not seeing any way to force refresh it. (Log a feature request?)

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Thanks for the list…but as I suspected, it seems I’m out of luck.

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Maybe if you say more about when and why you want to do this somebody can find a way to achieve your real goal.

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I have in some extension tools permanently enabled the VCB when I had complex rules for input. Then return a beep/message if VCB is entered at times when it’s not acceptable.

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That is what I did - It seems to be a rather modest crime according to the laws of UX.

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You can at any time change the VCB label between your actual label and an empty string if you want to give a hint of the VCB state changing.

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The VCB is strange already, since it’s not really a text input field. You don’t click on it to enter input.