special MVP code?

[scb147]

Is there something special you need to do within your code to get plugins working on MVP?

The Weather2 plugin doesn't seem to work on them. I don't have one to test, and I don't know why it wouldn't work on it.

[McBainUK]

What do you mean by "work"?

[sub]

Is there something special you need to do within your code to get plugins working on MVP?

No, usually you wouldnt have to do anything different.

Whats happening, and are some logs available?

[scb147]

Ha, by work, I mean users are stating they can't get the plugin to show up on their MVPs.

This is the only set of logs I have found that has the MVP log in it, and I see no errors. User just states that it doesn't show up on the main menu.
http://forums.gbpvr.com/showpost.php?p=3...stcount=17

[mvallevand]

With torrents, rssreader, and mlpanel, I could guess that he might be running into the problem of two many menu items.

Martin

[Jaggy]

It made no difference when I removed all the other plugins except for Weather2 it still doesn't show up on my NMT main menu.

New logs attached from after removing all plugins except for Weather2 & only starting 1 MVP/NMT server & blue skin.

[mvallevand]

Does it work if you set

<MVPLoadPluginsEarlier>true</MVPLoadPluginsEarlier>

Martin

[Jaggy]

Nope made no difference.....still not showing on the main menu

[sub]

2009-08-30 09:27:31.942 ERROR [6] Error initializing menu plugin: C:\Program Files\Devnz\GBPVR\plugins\weather2\weather2.dll
2009-08-30 09:27:31.942 ERROR [6] Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.
2009-08-30 09:27:31.952 ERROR [6] at System.RuntimeType.CreateInstanceImpl(Boolean publicOnly, Boolean skipVisibilityChecks, Boolean fillCache)
at System.Activator.CreateInstance(Type type, Boolean nonPublic)
at GBPVR.Backend.Common.xc4f12ec3a8a4c96b.xd1ccdef346e6a297(Boolean x8bae2a88590d8cc0)
2009-08-30 09:27:31.972 ERROR [6] Inner exception: System.ArgumentException: An item with the same key has already been added.
at System.ThrowHelper.ThrowArgumentException(ExceptionResource resource)
at System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary`2.Insert(TKey key, TValue value, Boolean add)
at weather2.WeatherIcons.LoadIcons()
at weather2.WeatherTask..ctor()
at System.RuntimeType.CreateInstanceImpl(Boolean publicOnly, Boolean skipVisibilityChecks, Boolean fillCache)
2009-08-30 09:27:32.002 ERROR [6] at System.ThrowHelper.ThrowArgumentException(ExceptionResource resource)
at System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary`2.Insert(TKey key, TValue value, Boolean add)
at weather2.WeatherIcons.LoadIcons()
at weather2.WeatherTask..ctor()
at System.RuntimeType.CreateInstanceImpl(Boolean publicOnly, Boolean skipVisibilityChecks, Boolean fillCache)

It looks like the weather2.WeatherTask is encountering a problem in constructor when calling this LoadIcons() method. Is it relying on a specific current directory? If not, then you might need to add some logging in that method to narrow the cause down.

Otherwise you could try defering this initialization stuff (loading the icons) until Activate is called on the task for the first time.

[scb147]

Oh, I see what it is... The LoadIcons() method loads all the icons in the WeatherIcon folder into a hashtable. I'm guessing he has two files with the same name and it's causing an error.

Thanks for the help.

Jaggy---
Please delete all the files in your WeatherIcons (or make a backup somewhere), then get the icon packs (Stardock and Pressure arrows) off the wiki page and unzip them into the WeatherIcon folder. Then re-run it...

I'll update the code to do something about this... don't know what yet...