topic Re: Blank Add On for AC19 / DevKit19 in Archicad C++ API

Blank Add On for AC19 / DevKit19

Anonymous — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 13:21:18 GMT

After this failed experiment with the Archicad AddOn Wizard, i decided to create my own blank addon template for DevKit 19

Notes:
1- Remember to change the IDs in "/Src/MyDID.h" and "/RFIX/AC_BlankAddOnFix.grc". Explained in detail here.
2- works when placed in the "Examples" folder of the API DevKit.

Hope this is will be of use to those looking for a starting point. Cheers. Adl

Re: Blank Add On for AC19 / DevKit19

stefan — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 14:20:17 GMT

Thank you for sharing. I can also suggest to start from the smallest Devkit example: Geometry_Test

It would be nice to have a blank add-in which also compiles on OSX.

Re: Blank Add On for AC19 / DevKit19

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Oct 2015 10:43:16 GMT

Hi,

I've noticed that in the BlankAddOn the .grc file isn't entirely correct.
The info on the status bar should be:
'STR#' 32501 "Status bar strings" {
/* [ ] */ "Blank"
/* [ 1] */ "Do Nothing"
}

Instead of:
'STR#' 32520 "Status bar strings" {
/* [ ] */ "Blank"
}

Re: Blank Add On for AC19 / DevKit19

Akos Somorjai — Mon, 12 Oct 2015 12:08:46 GMT

stefan wrote:
Thank you for sharing. I can also suggest to start from the smallest Devkit example: Geometry_Test

It would be nice to have a blank add-in which also compiles on OSX.

Both devkits have add-ins for their respective development environments, and those set up skeleton add-ons.

Best, Akos

Re: Blank Add On for AC19 / DevKit19

Akos Somorjai — Mon, 12 Oct 2015 12:10:29 GMT

Gill wrote:
Hi,

I've noticed that in the BlankAddOn the .grc file isn't entirely correct.
The info on the status bar should be:
'STR#' 32501 "Status bar strings" {
/* [ ] */ "Blank"
/* [ 1] */ "Do Nothing"
}

Instead of:
'STR#' 32520 "Status bar strings" {
/* [ ] */ "Blank"
}

That depends on how you register your menu. The original is correct if you pass MenuCode_UserDef to your ACAPI_Register_Menu function.

Best, Akos

Re: Blank Add On for AC19 / DevKit19

stefan — Mon, 12 Oct 2015 13:17:47 GMT

Akos wrote:
stefan wrote:
Thank you for sharing. I can also suggest to start from the smallest Devkit example: Geometry_Test

It would be nice to have a blank add-in which also compiles on OSX.
Both devkits have add-ins for their respective development environments, and those set up skeleton add-ons.

Best, Akos

What is the recommended approach for developing Win + Mac add-ons? Preferably, we would have a single Add-in source folder, with Visual Studio & Xcode project files and with a single set of CPP/H files. Then it could be used in e.g. git or other source control systems to be shared among team members.

Alas, I've had not much luck on OSX with the add-on template and usually stick to copying an example project and renaming things over there.

I was even thinking of setting up a cmake or qmake script to generate two projects from a single source. This could make it more flexible in integrating it into your environments.

Re: Blank Add On for AC19 / DevKit19

Akos Somorjai — Wed, 14 Oct 2015 11:48:18 GMT

stefan wrote:
What is the recommended approach for developing Win + Mac add-ons? Preferably, we would have a single Add-in source folder, with Visual Studio & Xcode project files and with a single set of CPP/H files. Then it could be used in e.g. git or other source control systems to be shared among team members.

Alas, I've had not much luck on OSX with the add-on template and usually stick to copying an example project and renaming things over there.

I was even thinking of setting up a cmake or qmake script to generate two projects from a single source. This could make it more flexible in integrating it into your environments.

You can see the setup we use in the Examples. Each add-on has the following folders (empty ones are usually omitted):

RFIX -- non-localisable resources
RFIX.mac -- non-localisable resources for OSX
RFIX.win -- non-localisable resources for Windows
RINT -- localisable resources
RINT.mac -- localisable resources for OSX
RINT.win -- localisable resources for Windows
Src -- source and header files (may contain subfolders); on its top level we usually keep the platform independent sources, platform specific stuff goes into subfolders

We keep external libraries and sources in a separate MakeAdds folder somewhere in a central location.

You may also add a Make.mac and a Make.win folder for the project files.

Please share with us if you manage to set up any cmake files; I'd be interested

Best, Akos