topic Re: Archicad 23 API Template for Windows Visual Studio 2017 in Archicad C++ API

Archicad 23 API Template for Windows Visual Studio 2017

poco2013 — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 08:16:10 GMT

I installed the Archicad 23 API package and also checked the box for the installation of the Visual Studio template. But i can not find the template. It is not located under the Support folder. Any ideas on how to get it?

On windows 10 with Visual Studio Community 2017

Re: Archicad 23 API Template for Windows Visual Studio 2017

Tibor Lorantfy — Mon, 23 Sep 2019 06:47:23 GMT

Hi Gerry,

The template will be installed directly into the Visual Studio. So it will be placed into your VS templates folder, by default:

<user documents>\Visual Studio 2017\Templates\ProjectTemplates\Visual C++ Project

You should find the ARCHICAD_Add-On_Template_For_VS.zip file here.

Yes, it's a zip and that's correct, Visual Studio will unpack it at runtime and it will be listed in the C++ project templates in the "New Project" dialog:

Re: Archicad 23 API Template for Windows Visual Studio 2017

Tibor Lorantfy — Mon, 23 Sep 2019 07:36:39 GMT

Please note that you can install not only Template Project for Visual Studio, but there is an option to install Debugger Visualizers too.

Those Debugger Visualizers will be installed directly to your Visual Studio's Visualizers folder also:

<user documents>\Visual Studio 2017\Visualizers

Thanks to those visualizers you will be able to debug the content of objects with type GS::UniString, IO::Location and many others.

Re: Archicad 23 API Template for Windows Visual Studio 2017

dushyant — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 13:48:59 GMT

Is the Debugger Visualiser by the name "GS.natvis" ?

If it is missed to install it during the API devkit installation, can it be installed separately?

Thanks.

Re: Archicad 23 API Template for Windows Visual Studio 2017

dushyant — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 13:52:31 GMT

Thanks for showing where this template is. I had been looking for something like this.

Looking in the Src dir of the template project, why are the source files in C and not C++?

Thanks,
Dushyant

Tibor wrote:
Hi Gerry,

The template will be installed directly into the Visual Studio. So it will be placed into your VS templates folder, by default:
<user documents>\Visual Studio 2017\Templates\ProjectTemplates\Visual C++ Project
You should find the ARCHICAD_Add-On_Template_For_VS.zip file here.

Yes, it's a zip and that's correct, Visual Studio will unpack it at runtime and it will be listed in the C++ project templates in the "New Project" dialog:
VS_AC_Template.png

Re: Archicad 23 API Template for Windows Visual Studio 2017

poco2013 — Tue, 17 Dec 2019 06:17:23 GMT

I suggest you look at the Blog instructions by Archicad. They are fairly complete.

I did a three video series on YouTube which Demos the "Hello_World" Add_on"

That should get you started

Re: Archicad 23 API Template for Windows Visual Studio 2017

dushyant — Mon, 06 Jan 2020 05:51:39 GMT

Thanks Gerry for the video.

Important points noted were:

The VC++ project must be saved in the API-Kit examples directory, and not in AchiCAD's Add-ons (or elsewhere), to compile successfully using the template.

In RegisterInterface function, MenuCode_Tools (default in template) places the menu under Options menu, and MenuCode_UserDef makes it as a new menu.

Dushyant