Popular Post Jesse Cogswell Posted December 26, 2024 Popular Post Share Posted December 26, 2024 Merry Christmas, friends. I have long struggled with making my plug-ins easier to install and keep up to date, and I have finally finished writing a manager application that can do just that. I have migrated all of my plug-ins over to GitHub and have a database system to track updates and bugs. The JNC Tools Free Manager includes every plug-in that I've written for the forums and has ways to access release notes, bug reports, wishlist items, and readme pages (still catching up on these, more coming along). It will highlight plug-ins with new versions and will inform you of new manager versions when they are released. It will handle installing the plug-ins into your active user folder, the only thing you'll have to do is add them to your workspace the first time you install them. The manager is compatible with any version of Vectorworks 2019 or newer on PC, and 2021 and newer on Mac and requires internet access to work. Attached to this post is a Vectorworks 2019 file called JNC Tools Free Manager Download. It contains simple instructions to install the manager file (it does most of the work for you), and should remain up to date for the foreseeable future. The one caveat to all of this is that I do not have regular access to a Mac, so there may be some errors that pop up on that platform. If you should encounter any errors, please share any error messages and I will fix it as soon as I am able. I borrowed a Macbook last month to help iron out some issues, but I fixed some bugs the other day on PC and don't know if they were fixed on the Mac side. Please reach out if you have any questions, concerns, or wishes. JNC Tools Free Manager Download.vwx 4 7 Quote Link to comment
MarcelP102 Posted December 26, 2024 Share Posted December 26, 2024 Merry Christmas Jesse, thanks for the present 😀 Quote Link to comment
Jesse Cogswell Posted December 27, 2024 Author Share Posted December 27, 2024 @Sebastiaan I'm not seeing your post now, so I trust you figured it out, but that error comes from not having the manager in your workspace. The embedded script does a check to see if you have the plug-in installed, and if you do, it tries to run a DoMenuTextByName call to run it. If it's not in your workspace, it can't do that. I am planning on giving the user an option to automate adding the tools to your workspace as they are installed, but the scripts to edit the workspace are poorly documented, and I haven't quite cracked how to do it without crashing Vectorworks. Quote Link to comment
Sebastiaan Posted December 27, 2024 Share Posted December 27, 2024 2 hours ago, Jesse Cogswell said: @Sebastiaan I'm not seeing your post now, so I trust you figured it out, but that error comes from not having the manager in your workspace. The embedded script does a check to see if you have the plug-in installed, and if you do, it tries to run a DoMenuTextByName call to run it. If it's not in your workspace, it can't do that. I am planning on giving the user an option to automate adding the tools to your workspace as they are installed, but the scripts to edit the workspace are poorly documented, and I haven't quite cracked how to do it without crashing Vectorworks. hi Yes sorry I did not see the plug in in the workspace editor at first. But it was there the second time I looked 🙂. So that’s why I deleted the post. thank you again for all that work! Quote Link to comment
Thomas K. Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 The finest collection on the internet presented by Jesse! Thank you for your work! Quote Link to comment
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