DataPlugin SDK Quickstart

Please stop cross posting, really I read most posts and have answered in one of the other threads.

tried to keep it all on the ffxiTimer post, then it started spreading.
posted here a sec just before you answer in the other guys topic, so my bad...anyway i thought someone would care to look at the code so maybe the SDK section was better... Embarassed

Okay, my head's starting to hurt from banging my head against this brick wall for the last couple of hours. For the life of me, I just can't get the UserControl working in VB.NET. LCDStudio outright refuses to load the plugin. Could anyone post a working example in VB.NET, or perhaps they could see what the devil's wrong with mine? I've ZIPped it and uploaded it at http://www.jfsoftware.com/images/brokenplugin.zip. Thanks!

Your assembly somehow got corrupted and therefore refuses to load. If you have the framework sdk installed you can check with peverify if yours is ok.

	Code:
	C:\ffxiTimer0.2b>peverify ffxiTimer.dll Microsoft (R) .NET Framework PE Verifier Version 1.1.4322.573 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 1998-2002. All rights reserved. Unable to OpenScopeOnMemory for IMetaDataImport:80131107 1 Errors Verifying ffxiTimer.dll

joshua_70448 wrote:

Okay, my head's starting to hurt from banging my head against this brick wall for the last couple of hours. For the life of me, I just can't get the UserControl working in VB.NET. LCDStudio outright refuses to load the plugin. Could anyone post a working example in VB.NET, or perhaps they could see what the devil's wrong with mine? I've ZIPped it and uploaded it at http://www.jfsoftware.com/images/brokenplugin.zip. Thanks!

Never mind, I figured it out. For future reference, if anyone has this problem, try removing all Namespace...End Namespace commands from your VB.NET plugins. Those commands made mine dork out.

I've posted a Visual Basic .NET translation of Ray's earlier example of a plugin using a config panel and load/save settings. You can take a look at it here: http://www.jfsoftware.com/product/75

Well i have a problem. My checkbox cannot be checked... (since it is mostly the code of the Example):

Code:

using System;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Collections;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Data;
using System.Security;
using System.Threading;
using System.Security.Permissions;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using LcdStudio.CoreInterfaces;

namespace LCDSkypePlugIn
{
public class Plugin : AbstractDataPlugin
{
public override void RegisterData(IDataService ds)
{
ds.RegisterVariable(Group,"LCDSkypePlugIn.HelloWorld","LCDSkypePlugIn\\Hello world");
ds.RegisterVariable(Group,"LCDSkypePlugIn.TimeMsg","LCDSkypePlugIn\\Time");
this.UpdateInterval = 10000; //Update every 10000ms (10 sec)
}

public override void UpdateData(IDataService ds)
{
ds.SetValue("LCDSkypePlugIn.HelloWorld","Hello world");
ds.SetValue("LCDSkypePlugIn.TimeMsg",string.Format("The time is {0} ",DateTime.Now.ToShortTimeString()));
}

}
}

And its plugin file is as following:

	Code:
	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <Plugins> <Plugin ID="Skype PlugIn" Type="LCDSkypePlugIn.Plugin, LCDSkypePlugIn" Visible="Yes" > <Depends ID="DataService" /> <Depends ID="DispatchService" /> </Plugin> </Plugins>

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*edit* just saw this thread has three pages. i will read through it now, maybe i find the solution myself. Sorry

99% chance you got the fully qualified name wrong in the .plugin file

i also thought of that but cant see the mistake.

Zip up the project send it over and i'll take a look at it

well, its nothing more than the code i showed up there. Could you explain the names in the xml file? For there must be the mistake somewhere..

There isn't really that much to it. It's just a fqn of the class to create and a flag if it's visible in the config panel.

Just make sure you target the dotnet framework 1.1

ah, that might be the problem... let me test it...

same problem, still.

Okay send me your dll and .plugin file then, i can't keep guessing what might be wrong..