when are the addons going to be updated for AC 8.1????????
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2004-01-07
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Rubia Torres
2004-01-07
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2004-01-12 09:27 AM
2004-01-12
09:27 AM
Dear Stefan,
unfortunately, from what I know from GS, we have to recompile our add-ons for each new ArchiCAD version.
I hope this behavior will change because it's very expensive for us (and boring for the users) to release a new updates for each ArchiCAD version!
About the cracked copy... I'm not so "optimistic"!
unfortunately, from what I know from GS, we have to recompile our add-ons for each new ArchiCAD version.
I hope this behavior will change because it's very expensive for us (and boring for the users) to release a new updates for each ArchiCAD version!
About the cracked copy... I'm not so "optimistic"!
Fabrizio Diodati
Graphisoft Italy Srl | Via Rossignago 2/A Spinea Venezia 30038 Italy
Graphisoft Italy Srl | Via Rossignago 2/A Spinea Venezia 30038 Italy
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2004-01-12 09:32 AM
2004-01-12
09:32 AM
Fabrizio wrote:Not to mention the wasted time between the release of an ArchiCAD version and the release of an Add-on version.
Dear Stefan,
unfortunately, from what I know from GS, we have to recompile our add-ons for each new ArchiCAD version.
I hope this behavior will change because it's very expensive for us (and boring for the users) to release a new updates for each ArchiCAD version!
The release of the new 3ds max6 also meant the release of a whole set of updated plug-ins, but that went very fast. Maybe internally it was only a minor recompile, but (since I'm delving into DLL & plug-in development in C++ myself, although not for ArchiCAD) I can imagine that API-changes can be everything from trivial to disastrous.
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2004-01-12 11:07 AM
2004-01-12
11:07 AM
Dear Stefan,
of course I agree with you but, once again, it depends...
For ArchiCAD 8.1 we need only to recompile our plug-ins (and we released them quite fast) but, in order to provide the better product we can, we always test quite hard our products also if we simply recompiled them and, of course, this test phase needs time (you know, currently we released 10 add-ons so the beta-testing phase is quite expensive in term of time!).
On the other hand, also if from the code point of view there are minor changes, you have also to take care about other changes (for example, new ArchiCAD elements, introduction of subtypes, etc.) which can involve your software...
So it isn't so simple...
I really hope our users can understand this quite large amount of job needed for each new "maintenance" updates (due to a new ArchiCAD release) and can accept to wait for these releases…
of course I agree with you but, once again, it depends...
For ArchiCAD 8.1 we need only to recompile our plug-ins (and we released them quite fast) but, in order to provide the better product we can, we always test quite hard our products also if we simply recompiled them and, of course, this test phase needs time (you know, currently we released 10 add-ons so the beta-testing phase is quite expensive in term of time!).
On the other hand, also if from the code point of view there are minor changes, you have also to take care about other changes (for example, new ArchiCAD elements, introduction of subtypes, etc.) which can involve your software...
So it isn't so simple...
I really hope our users can understand this quite large amount of job needed for each new "maintenance" updates (due to a new ArchiCAD release) and can accept to wait for these releases…
Fabrizio Diodati
Graphisoft Italy Srl | Via Rossignago 2/A Spinea Venezia 30038 Italy
Graphisoft Italy Srl | Via Rossignago 2/A Spinea Venezia 30038 Italy

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2004-01-12 12:17 PM
2004-01-12
12:17 PM
stefan wrote:... and for the developers to survive ...
On the other hand, updating the Add-ons might be a way to make it harder for cracked copies to be spread😉

Djordje
ArchiCAD since 4.55 ... 1995
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