[Plugin] Selection Toys

cotty · 15 Dec 2012, 12:16

Kind of bubble sort

caronte01 · 20 Dec 2012, 15:26

ThomThom.

Great plugin, thanks a lot!

caronte01 · 20 Dec 2012, 16:32

Hi ThomThom.

Thanks for your plugins!

I´m having issues with additional plugin folders and your plugin. I get the following message:

I tried putting ttlib2 in plugins, and in my additional plugin folder. Same error.

Santiago

Edit:

TTcleanup and TTsolidinspector work ok.

thomthom · 20 Dec 2012, 16:48

Selection Toys require TT_Lib version 1. It makes no use of version 2. Follow the link of requirements.

caronte01 · 21 Dec 2012, 02:33

My bad... didn't read the list of requirements at first. But, now it is asking for win32api. In installed it in the main plugin folder, and no go.... Does this plugin work on macos?

Thanks

Santiago

thomthom · 21 Dec 2012, 09:02

@caronte01 said:

Does this plugin work on macos?

Yes.

Have you checked that the file is there? Can you show a screenshot of the file in finder - including the path to the files.

Dan Rathbun · 21 Dec 2012, 23:36

@caronte01 said:

... But, now it is asking for win32api. In installed it in the main plugin folder, and no go....

I changed my post for the Win32api.so library , to make the first line more obvious so you cannot misread it. I also copied the warning 2 more times, so it appears THREE (3) times:

Windows ONLY (Do NOT install on Mac!)

You should remove Win32API.so and win32ole.so from your Mac, please.

Do not throw away the brains that God gave you, just because some error message tells you to do things that you should know do not make sense. (This is how websites trick you into installing trojan malware on your computer.)

A Mac does NOT have a registry database (it uses plist files,) so should not be trying to load the registry.rb file, nor should it be trying to load either Win32API.so nor win32ole.so files.
If a plugin does try to do these things on a Mac, either the plugin is MS Windows only, or the plugin author did not determine the user platform correctly (or somehow, some plugin has changed the RUBY_PLATFORM global constant.)

Always get help from the plugin author first, rather than attempting "shot in the dark" solutions.

Dan Rathbun · 21 Dec 2012, 23:52

@caronte01 said:

I´m having issues with additional plugin folders and your plugin. I get the following message:

(1) If you are on a Mac, why are you prefixing paths with a drive letter (such as ,) this is only done on MS Windows.

(2) Are you responsible for putting the dashes " %(#804040)[-]" into the library directory name ? (ie: " %(#804040)[-Libreria-]")

This may not be a wise idea.)

(3) Try to limit any characters in directory names to the UTF-8 character set. (Simple ASCII characters are even better.)

driven · 22 Dec 2012, 00:03

@dan,
it looks to me that he has two systems with a shared dropbox for his plugins [some very out of date], the win fileis already in TT's lib, but additional folders reports it as missing even if it's there.
I think it loads first to monitor the other rubies,
this runs on a mac fine, if you have the Lib...
john

Dan Rathbun · 22 Dec 2012, 00:45

@driven said:

@dan,
it looks to me that he has two systems with a shared dropbox for his plugins

Sounds like trouble to me.

thomthom · 22 Dec 2012, 10:57

@dan rathbun said:

@driven said:

@dan,
it looks to me that he has two systems with a shared dropbox for his plugins

Sounds like trouble to me.

I do that same - one Dropbox folder, three windows machines, one OSX. No problem.

thomthom · 22 Dec 2012, 10:59

@dan rathbun said:

(3) Try to limit any characters in directory names to the UTF-8 character set. (Simple ASCII characters are even better.)

Limit? What characters are not covered by Unicode?

thomthom · 22 Dec 2012, 11:01

@dan rathbun said:

Always get help from the plugin author first, rather than attempting "shot in the dark" solutions.

Isn't that what has been done here..? I think you've jumped the gun on a few things here.

Dan Rathbun · 22 Dec 2012, 23:00

Sorry.. I will bow out of this.

thomthom · 23 Dec 2012, 13:33

@caronte01 said:

My bad... didn't read the list of requirements at first. But, now it is asking for win32api. In installed it in the main plugin folder, and no go.... Does this plugin work on macos?

Would you by any chance happen to have Organizer installed? That could explain why these files are being loaded.

Selection Toys uses only a very tiny subset of TT_Lib - the rest of TT_Lib isn't even loaded. the .so file should be inert as there is no other plugin using TT_Lib and certainly not the functionality of the .so.

Organizer does do some weird things such as load going into subfolders and load the files there, which causes problems as files might be loaded in the wrong order.

But I still don't get why the .so and registry files are being loaded as the code calling it is wrapped in guards that should prevent them from loaded directly. So it almost seems that something is bypassing this is loading the files directly.

I'm not quite sure how Fredo's Additional Folders plugin work though - which you appear to be using.

thomthom · 23 Dec 2012, 13:34

@dan rathbun said:

Sorry.. I will bow out of this.

No worries. Enjoy the jolly times ahead!

caronte01 · 23 Dec 2012, 16:37

Hi all.

Yes, I use dropbox to sync my plugins folder between 2 computers, 1 windows pc that I use at work, and a macbook that I have at home. I've had no issues with this system so far. Almost all plugins work ok, the few that don't, I install locally.

I had compatibility problems between podium 2 and 000_AdditionalPluginFolders, but uninstalled podium and everything went back to normal.

No, I don't have organizer installed.

caronte01 · 23 Dec 2012, 16:47

BTW, Happy holidays!

thomthom · 23 Dec 2012, 17:47

Can you try, just for the sake of it an place Selection Toys and TT_Lib into the actual plugins folder and see if that avoids the errors. Then we'd know if it works without Additional Folders handling this.

caronte01 · 23 Dec 2012, 18:12

Hi ThomThom.

Test 1: Moved TT_Lib and selection toys to the native plugin folder, left everything else untouched. Got this error:

Test 2: Moved TT_Lib and selection toys to the native plugin folder, removed 000_AdditionalPluginFolders. Selection toys loaded correctly.

Test 3: TT_lib, selection toys and 000_AdditionalPluginFolders in the native plugins folder, dropbox folder left empty. Got this error:

Test 4: Just in case, 000_AdditionalPluginFolders in the native directory, TTlib and selection toys in my dropbox plugin folder Error:

So it is some kind of incompatibility with this two plugins?