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On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 5:26 PM, Darrin Cardani <email@hidden> wrote:
> The `pluginkit` command line tool will not show any FxPlug < 3.x. I don’t believe it will show any installed in /Library/Plug-Ins/FxPlug/ either. The only way that I know for sure that pluginkit will find your plug-ins is to use a wrapper application and launch services.

> Darrin

On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 6:45 PM, Roman <email@hidden> wrote:

Hi Daniel,

Try "pluginkit -mAv", but probably it doesn't work for generators, I didn't check this actually. Putting plugins in "/Library/Plug-Ins/FxPlug" is obsolete, but still works. It just may happen that one day it stopps loading from that path. Though one of my project uses API that was marked as obsolete in OSX 10.8, but it is still available :). So it is up to you which way to choose.

04.05.2017 12:29, Daniel Walz пишет:

Hi Roman,

that's great, thanks!

When starting over, I missed that.
So it is still not listed with "pluginkit -m", but motion is showing it and I can use it again.

For me to understand:

"pluginkit -m" shows only plugins using FxPlug < 3.x or if installed in /Library/Plug-Ins/FxPlug and added using "pluginkit -a" ?

...but it is recommended not to do so and use the wrapper application and launch services instead?

Thanks again, that get's me back on track.

Best,

Daniel

On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 9:43 AM, Roman <email@hidden> wrote:

Hi,

I guess you need to change the type of your plugin from FxFilter to FxGenerator in Info.plist->ProPlugPlugInList->protocolNames

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Thanks,
Roman

Hi everybody,

I try to create a generative plugin with FxPlugin. I am using FxPlug SDK
3.1.1 on OSX 10.12.4

First I create an empty FxPlug project with XCode (8.3.2). Then I change
the base class to
@interface FilmstroFxPlugPlugIn : NSObject <FxGenerator>

and adapt the frameSetup removing RenderInfo, that the FxGenerator doesn't
have:
- (BOOL)frameSetup:(FxRenderInfo)renderInfo
hardware:(BOOL *)canRenderHardware
software:(BOOL *)canRenderSoftware

and also the renderOutput removing the inputImage:
- (BOOL)renderOutput:(FxImage *)outputImage
withInfo:(FxRenderInfo)renderInfo

For a start I commented everything out and return YES.

The project builds fine, no warnings (except the documentation inside the
SDK).

Then I link from products the .fxplug into /Library/Plug-Ins/FxPlug/

But pluginkit doesn't show the plugin. pluginkit -a finishes without a
message. But still pluginkit -m doesn't list the plugin.

I can run the Application as well, but it shows only an empty window, as I
didn't implement anything there.

How can I troubleshoot, why it is not showing up?

N.B. I had a version showing up, but then I realised, that my changes
didn't have any effect, so I removed all traces by hand.
Now I tried to start over, but now I don't even see an empty plugin.
I used XCodes "New FxPlug project", so the GUIDs should be unique.

Thanks for help,
Daniel

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References:
	>Re: Troubleshoot FxGenerator (From: Roman <email@hidden>)
	>Re: Troubleshoot FxGenerator (From: Daniel Walz <email@hidden>)