topic Re: AC18 DevKits are available in Archicad C++ API

AC18 DevKits are available

Akos Somorjai — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 12:29:14 GMT

Hi fellow developers,

The ArchiCAD 18 API development kits are available in the download area. Don't forget to read the New Features Guide

Good luck,

Ákos

Re: AC18 DevKits are available

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Jul 2014 11:25:11 GMT

Thanks Ákos

I am getting a compilation error in my plugin because all the files from C:\Program Files (x86)\Graphisoft\API Development Kit 17\Support\Modules\GSModelDevLib\Sources are missing in the AC18 API.

Paul

Re: AC18 DevKits are available

Akos Somorjai — Wed, 02 Jul 2014 15:31:48 GMT

paulk wrote:
Thanks Ákos

I am getting a compilation error in my plugin because all the files from C:\Program Files (x86)\Graphisoft\API Development Kit 17\Support\Modules\GSModelDevLib\Sources are missing in the AC18 API.

Paul

Hi Paul,

Please remove those .cpp files from the project; from AC18 they are compiled into GSModeler.dll/.framework.

Regards, Akos

Re: AC18 DevKits are available

Anonymous — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 12:34:52 GMT

Thanks Akos

There are a lot of changes not documented. For example, GSModeler replaced by ModelerAPI. And some documentation does not match the header files - DGSetItemImage for example. Plus changes to AppendToLocal, etc etc. There is really a lot of work to update plugins to run under AC18.

Paul

Re: AC18 DevKits are available

Anonymous — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 12:51:46 GMT

Another example - DGModalDialog - the documentation does not match DG.h.

Re: AC18 DevKits are available

Anonymous — Tue, 08 Jul 2014 04:55:36 GMT

I think there is a bad bug in the new AC 18 API. It looks like material GUID's are always returned as null. See the image below. Is there a workaround for this? We need to have unique ID for each AC material object. This works fine in AC 17 as you can see in the image.

Thanks

Re: AC18 DevKits are available

Tibor Lorantfy — Tue, 08 Jul 2014 09:18:16 GMT

Dave wrote:
I think there is a bad bug in the new AC 18 API. It looks like material GUID's are always returned as null. See the image below.

Hi Dave,

Unfortunately it's a known bug, we will fix this in the next AC18 hotfix update.

Regards,
Tibor

Re: AC18 DevKits are available

Anonymous — Tue, 08 Jul 2014 15:04:39 GMT

Hi Tibor,

Okay thanks for that.

Regards,

Dave

Re: AC18 DevKits are available

Anonymous — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 09:06:30 GMT

Hi

I am unable to get my addin to link for AC18. The same project links fine for AC17. The link error is:

1>SettingsDialog.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _Inf

I am linking the following libraries:

ACAP_STAT.lib
DGGraphixImp.lib
DGImp.lib
GraphixImp.lib
GSModelerImp.lib
GSRootImp.lib
GSUtilsImp.lib
GXImageBaseImp.lib
GXImageImp.lib
GXImp.lib
InputOutputImp.lib
UCImp.lib

Can you tell me what I am doing wrong pls?

Thanks

Paul

Re: AC18 DevKits are available

Anonymous — Sun, 13 Jul 2014 00:15:15 GMT

Tibor/Ákos - are you able to provide a response to the issue above pls? I cannot release an AC18 version of my plugin without a resolution to this issue.

Thanks

Paul

Re: AC18 DevKits are available

Akos Somorjai — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 15:48:18 GMT

paulk wrote:
Tibor/Ákos - are you able to provide a response to the issue above pls? I cannot release an AC18 version of my plugin without a resolution to this issue.

Thanks

Paul

Hi Paul,

Are you also linking to the standard libraries?

Best, Akos

Re: AC18 DevKits are available

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 19:43:26 GMT

Are you also linking to the standard libraries?

No, I am linking as per the AC17 settings for my project which. Libs included are:

octane.lib
kernel32.lib
user32.lib
gdi32.lib
winspool.lib
comdlg32.lib
advapi32.lib
shell32.lib
ole32.lib
oleaut32.lib
uuid.lib
odbc32.lib
odbccp32.lib

I checked the AC18 samples (Geometry_Test) and they were not linking to the default libs. My settings are attached.

Paul

Re: AC18 DevKits are available

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 23:36:53 GMT

I managed to get it to link using INCLUDE default libraries, and then excluding stlport_vc7.lib and msvcrt.lib.

Whilst the plugin shows in the Add-On Manager, when selected, the AddOn Info box is blank, and CheckEnvironment, RegisterInterface and Initialize are not being called. So the plugin does not work until AC18.

Again, the plugin is working fine in AC14, 15, 16 an 17.

Paul

Re: AC18 DevKits are available

Akos Somorjai — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 13:34:30 GMT

paulk wrote:
I managed to get it to link using INCLUDE default libraries, and then excluding stlport_vc7.lib and msvcrt.lib.

Whilst the plugin shows in the Add-On Manager, when selected, the AddOn Info box is blank, and CheckEnvironment, RegisterInterface and Initialize are not being called. So the plugin does not work until AC18.

Again, the plugin is working fine in AC14, 15, 16 an 17.

Paul

Hi Paul,

Could you please check both the AC17 and the AC18 add-on with the dependency checker? The important part is the list of exported functions, and the modules it depends on.

A trick here is to copy the add-on beside ArchiCAD, then run the dependency checker -- this way ArchiCAD's modules won't show up red in the module list.

Regards, Akos

Re: AC18 DevKits are available

Anonymous — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 23:17:32 GMT

Hi Akos

API-MS-WIN-CORE-PRIVATEPROFILE-L1-1-1.DLL *
API-MS-WIN-CORE-KERNEL32-PRIVATE-L1-1-1.DLL *
API-MS-WIN-SHUTDOWN-L1-1-1.DLL *
API-MS-WIN-SERVICE-PRIVATE-L1-1-1.DLL *
EXT-MS-WIN-NTUSER-UICONTEXT-EXT-L1-1-0.DLL *

are show as missing, however they also show as missing in AC17.

IESHIMS.DLL also shows as missing, and it appears in the AC17 folder, but copying that DLL into the AC18 folder did not resolve the problem.

Paul

Re: AC18 DevKits are available

Akos Somorjai — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 08:13:45 GMT

paulk wrote:
Hi Akos

API-MS-WIN-CORE-PRIVATEPROFILE-L1-1-1.DLL *
API-MS-WIN-CORE-KERNEL32-PRIVATE-L1-1-1.DLL *
API-MS-WIN-SHUTDOWN-L1-1-1.DLL *
API-MS-WIN-SERVICE-PRIVATE-L1-1-1.DLL *
EXT-MS-WIN-NTUSER-UICONTEXT-EXT-L1-1-0.DLL *

are show as missing, however they also show as missing in AC17.

IESHIMS.DLL also shows as missing, and it appears in the AC17 folder, but copying that DLL into the AC18 folder did not resolve the problem.

Paul

Hi Paul,

Could you please send me the current AC17 and AC18 add-on by mail (asomorjai at graphisoft dot com)? I'll try to figure out what's going on.

Best, Akos

Re: AC18 DevKits are available

saifudin F — Sat, 19 Jul 2014 13:49:31 GMT

hello
i've been trying to contact GS to send me the API tool but still no reply

i've sent the requested agreement PDF file as on the site from more than 1 month ago but still no reply
can any one help me
i'm trying to develop an add-on for Code compliance check with archicad

thanks in advance

Re: AC18 DevKits are available

Tibor Lorantfy — Mon, 28 Jul 2014 10:46:31 GMT

Hi Saifudin,

Please send me the agreement PDF by mail ( tlorantfy at graphisoft dot com ), I'll help you manage this.

Regards,
Tibor

Re: AC18 DevKits are available

stefan — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 12:07:20 GMT

Is there any up to date page on the DevKit with e.g. system requirements (compiler versions?)

E.g. which version of Visual Studio is required on Windows?

I've tried the Xcode template today and the generated project seems to be intended to be placed in the Devkit installation folder, as the paths to the required frameworks and the header search paths use "../../Support/Frameworks"

It worked when I move the projectfolder into a subfolder of the Devkit installation folder.

Re: AC18 DevKits are available

Anonymous — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 22:18:59 GMT

Hi Paul,

Could you please send me the current AC17 and AC18 add-on by mail (asomorjai at graphisoft dot com)? I'll try to figure out what's going on.

Best, Akos

Just seeing if there had been any progress on this issue pls. I sent these files 3 weeks ago, but no response to date.

Paul