Petri Posted November 8, 2007 Share Posted November 8, 2007 VW 2008, OS X: trying to duplicate a PIO. The duplicate has no parameters, "Properties"-button does nothing. What? There is no duplicate in the Plug-ins folder in my Application Support folder. I was this close to losing a lot of work by encrypting the original. One does not do a full backup before a routine operation, does one? So, how does one duplicate PIOs nowadays? I've done it hundreds of times in previous versions. Quote Link to comment
Petri Posted November 8, 2007 Author Share Posted November 8, 2007 Well, as it turns out I could not have caused damage: PIOs cannot be encrypted at all. The old keyboard gymnastics does not work, "Encrypt VectorScript" sees only .vss -files, not PIOs. Quote Link to comment
Dieter @ DWorks Posted November 8, 2007 Share Posted November 8, 2007 you can encrypt all plug-ins. Quote Link to comment
Petri Posted November 8, 2007 Author Share Posted November 8, 2007 Well, that would be just fine and dandy... I want to encrypt only one at a time. Quote Link to comment
Dieter @ DWorks Posted November 8, 2007 Share Posted November 8, 2007 I mean that all kinds of plug-ins can be encrypted, also pio's Quote Link to comment
Petri Posted November 8, 2007 Author Share Posted November 8, 2007 And I mean they can't. Quote Link to comment
Dieter @ DWorks Posted November 9, 2007 Share Posted November 9, 2007 So you are saying that in VW2008 you can't do it? Maybe a bug? In VW12.5.2 it is still possible. Quote Link to comment
Petri Posted November 9, 2007 Author Share Posted November 9, 2007 Yes, that's what I mean. Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted November 9, 2007 Share Posted November 9, 2007 Have you followed the steps in the online help for encrypting plugins? (Search for Encrypting Scripts) Quote Link to comment
Charles Chandler Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 Works for me, at least in 78970 on Windows. Are you sure that the plug-in "compiles"? (Click the compile button in the plug-in editor.) Plug-ins that do not "compile" will not encrypt. Quote Link to comment
Petri Posted November 19, 2007 Author Share Posted November 19, 2007 Well, assuming that nothing has changed, why would a perfectly good PIO not compile - especially after it has been used in testing for dozens of times and I just need a copy that I can encrypt for distribution. Not that it would matter, because I can't duplicate plug-ins in VW 2008... No, that is a statement that may not be true: I can duplicate them, but first they lose all parameters and after closing VW they disappear from the folder. Quote Link to comment
Charles Chandler Posted November 22, 2007 Share Posted November 22, 2007 "Assuming that nothing has changed" might be where the problem resides. Things always change, in every programming language. If you try to compile the plug-in, do you get an error? Quote Link to comment
Petri Posted November 22, 2007 Author Share Posted November 22, 2007 Yes I do. They usually do not make any sense: the plug-in has worked. Then the duplicate does not work - well, if there are no parameters, it is not such a surprise... I wish this happened every time or never! (Prefer never...) Unpredictability is the worst scenario. Quote Link to comment
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