Plug in Prob

[pracau]

I work generally on the Mac. Here Scriptmaster and the plugin I have generated works brilliantly. But when I restart fmp after moving the Win plugin to Extensions the plugin has not been initialised. And when I check the box to try and configure it Filemaker crashes.

The Windows plugin was generated on the Mac, because I found that you had to be online which is a state the borrowed Windows box doesn't want to be in. Maybe that's the issue?

Has anyone any ideas on what I am doing wrong? I have the latest ScripMaster and FMP versions and the Win operating system is XP.

I just checked to see if the registered modules that formed the basis of the plugin were listed under the External functions. They were so my problem seems to lie with the plugin.

Edited August 24, 2010 by Guest

[Smef]

I've been testing this and cannot reproduce this issue. If you are not able to check the box to activate the plugin then the plugin should not be loaded, and you would not have the plugin functions in your external function list.

Do you have to versions of the plugin installed? What other plugins do you have installed on that system?

[pracau]

Thanks for the trying to replicate my problem.

I did not make it clear that I was able to see the functions in the external functions list after I opened your Scriptmaster.fp7 file (from which I created my custom plugins).

This was a test that I made after I initially posted and was the subject my edit.

In answer to your question I have no other plugins in the extensions folder.

[Valentin]

I would recommend that you make sure you have a recent install of Java, I would also try reinstalling Java.

The reason I propose that is that our plugins are written in Java, and since you have no other plugins installed when you enable the plugin it attempts to launch a Java virtual machine, and it seems that in your case there is an issue there.

[Smef]

Do the functions show up in your external function list when you have ONLY the plugin you generated installed (not scriptmaster either, and make sure that you don't register functions using the SM file)? Do any plugins show up in your plugin list in FileMaker Preference > Plugins tab?

Edited August 31, 2010 by Guest

[pracau]

I'm sorry that I haven't paid attention to your replies. I am using a borrowed Windows box that its so seriously locked down by its corporate owner ( Fort Knox IT depts at work I think) that I am virtually able to do nothing. So, there are many factors that I can't begin to comprehend them all.

For now I am leaving this problem be. I'll come back to it soon when I get a chance to play on a 'cleaner' machine.

But thanks any ways.

[Kevin Vile]

I was having the same problem. After some diagnostic work, it seemed that the problem was certain jar files that i included. I registered a single function and created a plugin that did work in Windows, but when i checked to include certain jar files on the same function the plugin would no longer allow enabling in Filemaker. It would give an error message and the crash. The jar files I found to cause this problem are:

Mail.jar

Activation.jar

itext-2.0.8.jar

These jar files and functions associated with them seem to work fine when registering them in ScriptMaster and using them through the SM plugin, but when a plugin is created that uses them, it causes filemaker to crash in Windows only. This plugin will work in Mac without problems.

I'm not sure if this is a problem with ScriptMaster, Windows, Java, or these jar files. I was using XP SP2, Java 1.6.0_21, FMPA 11v2.

Any thoughts?