Plugin development issues.

[justwill]

Hi All

I've used this front end over 5 years ago and had a little plugin I made that saved game info to a text file that LCD Smarty loaded up to a HD44780 via parallel.

Since then I had a linux install and a house move. I recently started a rebuild and upgrade and wanted to give this software a go again. I found randomly the old plugin but it must have had some hard coded settings and I have no project files from that plugin.

I've decided to continue with an Arduino to interface to the LCD from the linux time so now need to make a plugin to send over the text via a USB COM port.

This is where things go wrong. I have VS 2019 Community edition and loaded up the example project. Started with a basic test example but when I copy the build over to the plugins folder it fails to show up in the setup wizard. I then tried just the example code build and that shows if nothing is changed. As soon as I change something as simple as the name it then fails to show up in the list. If I then undo the change and build it is still the same. Also happens with a clean before build.

Many thanks for any help.

[justwill]

I've now got it working by using the Visual Basic project. The problem happens with the C# version.

[Tom Speirs]

It is probably an architecture difference issue. eg 32 bit vs 64 bit.

Glad you got something working anyway. I guess you could convert the vb to c# if not.

I am the primary developer and prefer to use VB so it may be more tested and no, I'm not gay. (just kidding)