Library and Tool folder structure - changed?

quarks

Library and Tool folder structure - changed?

in Library and Tool Development • 7 months ago

There have been posts on the forum related to users having problems with the Add Library and Add Tool features of 2.0b8 - the most common error reported that the library/tool package had the wrong structure.

So I have some questions

has the library/tool structure changed with the new templates?
do I need to rebuild my library and tool distributions using the new templates so they can be added via the IDE
or is it a problem in 2.0b8?

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prisonerj..

Re: Library and Tool folder structure - changed?

7 months ago

Hi Peter,

The problematic libraries and tools have their contents at the root of the ZIP folder, and not in a folder with the library name.

Although this has been the requirements for a while now, previous versions of Processing made some assumptions when this was the case, and moved everything to a subfolder behind the scenes. This caused problems in a few cases so from Processing 2.0b8 onwards, libraries and tools will throw that error if the ZIP isn't structured properly.

Unfortunately, previous versions of the Eclipse library and tool templates did not package the ZIP properly, which is why there are a good number of contributions throwing this error. We are in the process of going through the list of libraries and tools and will notify all the contributors with issues very soon (sometime this week).

You can also grab version 0.4.9 of the library template or 0.2.3 of the tool template and repackage your libraries to fix the problem. (https://code.google.com/p/processing/downloads/list)

Sorry about the issues this change has caused, and thanks for understanding!

Cheers,

-Elie

quarks

Re: Library and Tool folder structure - changed?

7 months ago

Thanks for the informtion - at least I know what the problem is and the resolution.

Peter

prisonerj..

Re: Library and Tool folder structure - changed?

7 months ago

Hi Peter,

I will temporary disable your contributions (G4P and sprites) from the list until these issues are fixed. Let me know when they are ready, and I'll enable them shortly.

Thanks,

-Elie

quarks

Re: Library and Tool folder structure - changed?

7 months ago

I have repackaged the following libraries and tools with the new templates so they work with the Add Tool and Add Library features in Processing V2.0b8

It may take a few days before they become available through the IDE but apart from G4P and GUI builder there have been no other changes made.

The latest versions of G4P and GUI builder include enhancements and some bug fixes so if you don't want to wait they can be downloaded via the website.

TOOLS
GUI Builder for G4P
Applet Exporter and Signer

LIBRARIES
G4P
Shapes3D
Sprites
PathFinder

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