Hi people,
has anyone else found their plugin not working in RB2008r4?
What I'm finding, is that certain methods, depending upon their
function declaration, don't work. By "don't work", I mean "crash RB
when an rmpty project is compiled and SOME but not all over plugins
are in the plugins folder".
I haven't seen anyone else complain of this.
What is it that could be different about my plugin?
I tried eliminating differences in my plugin loader code (the stuff
that happens before REALRegisterClass is called), and the standard RB
plugin loader code, but that made absolutely no difference.
I tried fiddling around with function names. That DID seem to make a
difference. In one example, I could get a function to "work" (not
crash with another plugin), by deleting the "=0" part of the function
declaration. By removing the default parameter, it worked again.
The problem with that, is my plugin makes HUGE use of default
parameters!
Can it be true that no other plugin uses default parameters? I find
that hard to believe.
Could it be that no other plugin uses SO MANY default parameters? I
don't know really.... I wonder if the MBS plugin uses many default
parameters or almost none? I would say about 1/8 of my functions have
default parameters.
I just mention MBS because it is a BIG plugin. And big code is more
likely to fail. And yet... the MBS plugin does not fail!
So what could be different?
I am thinking of just altering all my functions that don't work, and
providing "wrapper" modules written in pure REALbasic using the
extends keyword, to make the old functions still work.
I can't have my new plugin break existing code by making all "default"
parameters, non-default. So some kind of "compatability module" would
be a good idea.
I guess the next step is to just add all my function names, to a
standard RB plugin, with no ElfData code, just the function names and
a dummy function that does nothing. And see if that still breaks.
In that case I can definitely point it to a bug in RB's plugin loader.
I am really fed up with this though... it's a right waste of time and
a total pain. RS haven't answered my plugin bug report either...
http://realsoftware.fogbugz.com/default.asp?4429_fhgig10k
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