MusicLibrary2 does not work

[r3d]

Hi,

I'm fairly new to GB-PVR and am trying to get the MusicLibrary2 plugin to work. I have downloaded the latest version (1.0.16) of GB-PVR and the latest beta version of MusicLibrary2. After installing the plugin i have copied the MusicLibrary2.dll and ML3Panel.dll to the \plugins directory as instructed. However, I cannot get it to work. When I click on MusicLibrary2 menu item from the main menu (I'm using GBPVR.exe) I get a popup with the error - "Object reference not set to an instance of an object". I am attaching the log file below.

I have gone thru a lot of posts and tried various suggestions including uninstalling/reinstalling GB-PVR, Musiclibrary2 several times with no success.

Can someone please help me.

Regards,
r3d

[psycik]

Hi,

I'm fairly new to GB-PVR and am trying to get the MusicLibrary2 plugin to work. I have downloaded the latest version (1.0.16) of GB-PVR and the latest beta version of MusicLibrary2. After installing the plugin i have copied the MusicLibrary2.dll and ML3Panel.dll to the \plugins directory as instructed. However, I cannot get it to work. When I click on MusicLibrary2 menu item from the main menu (I'm using GBPVR.exe) I get a popup with the error - "Object reference not set to an instance of an object". I am attaching the log file below.

I have gone thru a lot of posts and tried various suggestions including uninstalling/reinstalling GB-PVR, Musiclibrary2 several times with no success.

Can someone please help me.

Regards,
r3d

you're using GBPVR? rather than pvrx2? If so, don't put the MusicLibrary3.dll in the plugins folder. That may be what is causing your problem. Just the MusicLibrary2.dll file goes in devnz\gbpvr\plugins

[r3d]

Yes I am using GBPVR.exe instead of PVRX2.exe. This is essentially because PVRX2 does not run when I select the Basic Skin. I've tried removing the MusicLibrary3.dll from the plugins folder as you suggested and still no success. I get the same error popup as before.

I looked into the log file and I noticed the following lines when GBPVR starts up:

2007-09-07 09:27:19.219 ERROR [1] Error initializing menu plugin: C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\plugins\MusicLibrary2.dll
2007-09-07 09:27:19.219 ERROR [1] Cannot create an abstract class.
2007-09-07 09:27:19.229 ERROR [1] at System.RuntimeTypeHandle.CreateInstance(RuntimeType type, Boolean publicOnly, Boolean noCheck, Boolean& canBeCached, RuntimeMethodHandle& ctor, Boolean& bNeedSecurityCheck)
at System.RuntimeType.CreateInstanceSlow(Boolean publicOnly, Boolean fillCache)
at System.RuntimeType.CreateInstanceImpl(Boolean publicOnly, Boolean skipVisibilityChecks, Boolean fillCache)
at System.Activator.CreateInstance(Type type, Boolean nonPublic)
at GBPVR.Backend.Common.xc4f12ec3a8a4c96b.x2eac9e7b9fcccc3b(Boolean x8bae2a88590d8cc0)
2007-09-07 09:27:19.229 ERROR [1] Error initializing menu plugin: C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\plugins\MusicLibrary2.dll
2007-09-07 09:27:19.229 ERROR [1] No parameterless constructor defined for this object.
2007-09-07 09:27:19.229 ERROR [1] at System.RuntimeTypeHandle.CreateInstance(RuntimeType type, Boolean publicOnly, Boolean noCheck, Boolean& canBeCached, RuntimeMethodHandle& ctor, Boolean& bNeedSecurityCheck)
at System.RuntimeType.CreateInstanceSlow(Boolean publicOnly, Boolean fillCache)
at System.RuntimeType.CreateInstanceImpl(Boolean publicOnly, Boolean skipVisibilityChecks, Boolean fillCache)
at System.Activator.CreateInstance(Type type, Boolean nonPublic)
at GBPVR.Backend.Common.xc4f12ec3a8a4c96b.x2eac9e7b9fcccc3b(Boolean x8bae2a88590d8cc0)

It seems like GBPVR is not able to initialise the plugin. Help!

[psycik]

I quite often get that CreateInstance errors, so I was looking further down. You'll see later that it has actually started.

Does it show up in the main menu? And you get the error when selecting it? That means it's initialised, and is more than likely a skin error.

Found it. I didn't go far enough down this afternoon. Here is your error.

Code:

2007-09-07 02:12:03.816    VERBOSE    [1]    Skinhelper loading image from file: .\skin\blue\MusicLibrary2\Moreup.png
2007-09-07 02:12:03.826    ERROR    [1]    Error: msg=0x202 (WM_LBUTTONUP) hwnd=0xb601ee wparam=0x0 lparam=0x6c0206 result=0x0  :  System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
   at PsycikProductions.MusicLibrary.GUI.AlbumArtClasses.GetAlbumArtImage(SkinHelper skinHelper, Track media)
   at PsycikProductions.MusicLibrary.GUI.LibraryUI.render(Boolean& requiresMoreRendering)
   at PsycikProductions.MusicLibrary.MusicLibrary2.render(Boolean& requiresMoreRendering)
   at GBPVR.x86396f56243de9fb.render(Boolean& requiresMoreRendering)
   at GBPVR.xbb1566157f5f8b1f.xf1b04f0b61b2ba29(Object xdf2e3583f942db7b, EventArgs xc4f45905cb1fc7ba)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnClick(EventArgs e)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.ContainerControl.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WndProc(Message& m)
   at GBPVR.xbb1566157f5f8b1f.WndProc(Message& m)
2007-09-07 02:12:03.826    VERBOSE    [1]    videoInsetVisible = false

It does seem to be skin related - you're usng basic by the look of things, and it's probably the playcd.png file that may be missing, or some albumart specialelement or composite image. Funny it should default to blue, but it doesn't seem to for this image. I think I remember someone else having a similar error.

[r3d]

Thanks for your prompt reply!

Yes MusigLibrary2 does show up on the main menu and I get the error when I select it. I can also confirm that .\skin\blue\MusicLibrary2\Moreup.png does exist. Any clues what's happening here?

[psycik]

yeah it looks like it trying to load a basic skin rather than blue..

[r3d]

I tried changing the skin back to blue using the config. I still get the same error :mad:

[psycik]

Do you still get that same albumart error with the blue skin?

And have you run a scan - looks like the query returned nothing. I wonder if that has an effect.

[r3d]

That was it!! I forgot to scan!!
It works great now. Thanks so much for all your help psycik

[psycik]

I'll make a note to fix that though, shouldn't get an error when nothin gin the library.

Glad you got it sorted.