#14 Global change color plugin

[mchnz]

This plugin provides a dialog with two standard Java Swing color choosers for selecting a from-color and a to-color. The plugin tracks down and changes colors for walls, floors, and furnature. The choosers have been enhanced to include a tab for "Colors in use" that displays a swatch for each color used in the model. Each color in-use swatch includes a hover tooltip that lists where the color is used.

[mchnz]

I've added a screenshot. I should also add that undo has not been implemented, so backup your model before using this plugin.

[mchnz]

I fixed the code that changes the colors for furniture materials set to their default colors.

I also set the opacity of buttons to attempt to fix the lack of fill-color in Colors-in-use swatches on Windows 10 (but don't have a Windows box to test it on).

[mchnz]

Updated with a revised user interface that lists where the selected color is used.

Fixed cases where the plugin attempted to change colors when textures were already defined.

[mchnz]

Latest screen shot for v0.3

[mchnz]

Implemented undo/redo and bumped the version number to 1.0.

[mchnz]

Fixed alpha (transparency) handling bug that made items invisible when moving to version 5.2 of SH3D. Added a feature where changing a color to itself fixes the invisible items created by this bug (the alpha is set to the alpha of the new color). In all other cases the old/existing alpha of the item color being changed is always preserved.

Fixed an issue where the plugin would not respect that a texture had been set and the color should therefore remain unchanged.

[Joshua Miller]

Hi,
Please, I don't find a .sh3p file into the pack "ChangeColorPlugin-1.1.jar"
How can I install it?
Thanks.

[mchnz]

A .sh3p is actually a jar file. So you install the ChangeColorPlugin-1.1.jar into the same place you would put the .sh3p file.

[Joshua Miller]

Ok. but I copy the .jar file into the folder

C:\Program Files\Sweet Home 3D\jre8\lib\ext

or into the folder

C:\Program Files\Sweet Home 3D\lib

both folders have .jar files

Thanks.

[mchnz]

Copy the jar to eteks/sweethome3d/plugins folder.

On Windows this might be:
C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\eTeks\Sweet Home 3D\plugins
or
C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\eTeks\Sweet Home 3D\plugins

On Linux:

~/.eteks/sweethome3d/plugins

Or if you rename the ChangeColorPlugin-1.1.jar to ChangeColorPlugin-1.1.sh3p, then on Windows and Mac double clicking might install it automatically.

See: http://www.sweethome3d.com/pluginsUserGuide.pdf for further details.

I forgot to change the type to .sh3p because I'm a Linux user and it makes little difference what it's called on the Linux platform (because on Linux it needs to be manually installed anyway).

[Joshua Miller]

It is definitely easier to rename the .jar file to .sh3p and make double-click on it.
Thank you very much for your fast help. This software is exceptional.

[mchnz]

Fixed a index out of bounds error if the array of materials in a model is shorter than the array of default materials (seem to happen after I deleted lots of objects from a home).

[Daniele]

I have fixed the version number within the plugin file and changed the extension to sh3p.

[mchnz]

Thanks.

[Dec]

Daniele, you seem to have been a busy, busy, boy! :-)

[Dec]

seems like a useful PI

[mchnz]

I've attached a new version of the ChangeColorPlugin with a ApplicationPlugin_fr.properties and changed the code to lookup the name of the menu in the properties file.

I've created a SH3D-ChangeColorPlugin repository at github to better document and track the source code.

I used google to produce some translations, so the French might be mangled. Feel free to review and suggest amendments to the ApplicationPlugin_fr.properties (github.com) file.

As well as here at sourceforge, I'll also tag and release at github, the current release is now v1.3 Outils (github.com)