Add-on for accoreconsole 2014

[avinnik]

Hello everybody,

We have developed an application, which is using 2013 accoreconsole with add-on. We are currently porting the mechanism to 2014.

We discovered that the add-on cannot be loaded into 2014 accore console, but can loaded it into AutoCAD 2014. Created another add-on from scratch -- still cannot load it into accoreconsole. Not sure how to handle this one. Any working examples I can use as a template?

Another issues -- not sure why, but I cannot execute accoreconsole process from another application and capture output.Either process execution fails or output cannot be captured. Any ideas how to resolve the issue? Working fine in 2013. Anything special about it 2014 version/DOTNET, etc.

Code executing accoreconsole:

ProcessStartInfo startInfo = new ProcessStartInfo(accoreconsole);
startInfo.Arguments = "/i " + Quoted(workFile) + " /s " + Quoted(script) + " /isolate";
 
 startInfo.UseShellExecute = false;


startInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
startInfo.RedirectStandardError = true;
startInfo.CreateNoWindow = true;
startInfo.RedirectStandardInput = true;

Process p = Process.Start(startInfo);

Using Visual Studio 2010

Your help will be greatly appreciated.

Code to execute

Thanks,

A.V. 

[Balaji_Ram]

Hi AV,

I have just tried loading a custom module in Accoreconsole in 2014 and it worked ok.

Not sure what could be missing at your end, so attaching the project that worked ok for me.

Can you please give it a try ? The script and batch file to run accoreconsole are also attached.

Regards,

Balaji

[Alexander.Rivilis]

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@avinnik wrote:

... Using Visual Studio 2010 ...

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What about testing with VS 2012 or 2013?

[jeff]

avinnik ,

Can you double click on accoreconsole and it not error out?

Sorry to get off the topic a bit if not related.

Balaji_Ram,

you might be aware of this but thought I would share so you could log it or inform engineering team if you felt it was necessary.

I had problem with coreconsole(2013, 2014, & 2015) add-ins erroring out and noticed it also crash after a couple of seconds if I just double clicked on .exe

The fix I found was to uni-stall software called "Display Link" or "DisplayLinkManager"

The same software caused 2014 installation to fail and I think typicaly is found on laptops that gets installed from numerous different devices.

http://upandready.typepad.com/up_and_ready/2012/05/general-installation-dlumd32dll-displaylink-core-...

[avinnik]

Executing accoreconsole from command line works fine.

I was able to overcome execution problem: forking accoreconsole using te code always throws an exception, but accoreconsole runs after that:

               // Start the new process

               ProcessStartInfo startInfo = new ProcessStartInfo(accoreconsole);

               startInfo.Arguments = "/i " + Quoted(workFile) + " /s " + Quoted(script) + " /isolate";

               startInfo.UseShellExecute = false;

               startInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;

               startInfo.RedirectStandardError = true;

               startInfo.CreateNoWindow = true;

               startInfo.RedirectStandardInput = true;

               Process p = Process.Start(startInfo);

               p.OutputDataReceived += new DataReceivedEventHandler(StandardOutputReceiver);

               p.BeginOutputReadLine();

               p.ErrorDataReceived += new DataReceivedEventHandler(StandardErrorReceiver);

               p.BeginErrorReadLine();

               p.WaitForExit();

After that our application reads stdout and stderr of accoreconsole

The problem is – that in 2013 it was UTF8 and 2014 the output is in wide characters

Execution using CreateProcess works fine (code is attached)

Loading add-on still need to be solved (sample code did not work) it is either accoreconsole version or referenced dlls

Thanks,

[Balaji_Ram · Accepted solution]

Hi AV,

Can you trying setting SECURELOAD to 0 or placing the dll in one of the trusted locations ?

Regards,

Balaji

[Balaji_Ram]

Hi Jeff,

Thanks for sharing the workaround.

I dont seem to have the Display link manager software installed in my laptop. So it is little hard for me to reproduce the crash and report this problem to our engineering. Any suggestions on how to reproduce the crash ?

Regards,

Balaji

[CADbloke]

FYI I do have Displaylink manager and have not experienced this crash. I have the versions provided by Windows Update - I found the versions for the manufacturer could be unstable at times.