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@dirk8V5QM wrote:
Yea, but then I can't load my plugin anymore 🙂
When you added the registry entry, did you set LOADCTRLS to 2, which is demand loading when a command is called? If you set it to 0, it tries to load at startup, hence you get the dialog. To load using demand loading, create a cuix that has the commands within your dll and set LOADCTRLS to 2. Then when you click on a button for a command, the dll will be loaded at that time, not at startup.
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@dirk8V5QM wrote:
Yea, but then I can't load my plugin anymore 🙂
When you added the registry entry, did you set LOADCTRLS to 2, which is demand loading when a command is called? If you set it to 0, it tries to load at startup, hence you get the dialog. To load using demand loading, create a cuix that has the commands within your dll and set LOADCTRLS to 2. Then when you click on a button for a command, the dll will be loaded at that time, not at startup.
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@dirk8V5QM wrote:
My LOADCTRLS value has always been set to 2 and it has always attempted to loaded my plugin on startup 🙂
How do you NETLOAD it? Is it in a bundle? I only load it via a cuix.
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@dirk8V5QM wrote:
My LOADCTRLS value has always been set to 2 and it has always attempted to loaded my plugin on startup 🙂
How do you NETLOAD it? Is it in a bundle? I only load it via a cuix.
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You can use the registry. It's a manual method that always works. Personally, I use that because I have developed a custom application for distributing my dll's. It was necessary before bundle technology was developed. I just stuck with it. For plugins that are not used in my company, I use bundles. Just create a bundle folder in your VS project and then change the Release folder to the bundle's \Contents folder. When you build, your bundle will be complete. Add the whole bundle to your project and you can keep your PackageContents.xml updated easier. The quid needs to be updated each time you update your dll. This is for version control.
For updating the registry, you can use the code below to create a dos bat file. Save the code to Notepad and change the extension to bat. Double click to run it.
rem ========== Set up for CadMgr Utilities ============
XCOPY "\\ShareName\files\AcadCustom - 2021" "C:\AcadCustom\" /q /s /y
REG ADD "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Autodesk\AutoCAD\R24.2\ACAD-6101\Applications\TID_Startup" /v "DESCRIPTION" /t REG_SZ /d "Loads TID customizations at startup for AutoCAD" /f
REG ADD "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Autodesk\AutoCAD\R24.2\ACAD-6101\Applications\TID_Startup" /v "LOADCTRLS" /t REG_DWORD /d 2 /f
REG ADD "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Autodesk\AutoCAD\R24.2\ACAD-6101\Applications\TID_Startup" /v "LOADER" /t REG_SZ /d "C:\AcadCustom\Support_GS\TID_Startup.dll" /f
REG ADD "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Autodesk\AutoCAD\R24.2\ACAD-6101\Applications\TID_Startup" /v "MANAGED" /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
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You can use the registry. It's a manual method that always works. Personally, I use that because I have developed a custom application for distributing my dll's. It was necessary before bundle technology was developed. I just stuck with it. For plugins that are not used in my company, I use bundles. Just create a bundle folder in your VS project and then change the Release folder to the bundle's \Contents folder. When you build, your bundle will be complete. Add the whole bundle to your project and you can keep your PackageContents.xml updated easier. The quid needs to be updated each time you update your dll. This is for version control.
For updating the registry, you can use the code below to create a dos bat file. Save the code to Notepad and change the extension to bat. Double click to run it.
rem ========== Set up for CadMgr Utilities ============
XCOPY "\\ShareName\files\AcadCustom - 2021" "C:\AcadCustom\" /q /s /y
REG ADD "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Autodesk\AutoCAD\R24.2\ACAD-6101\Applications\TID_Startup" /v "DESCRIPTION" /t REG_SZ /d "Loads TID customizations at startup for AutoCAD" /f
REG ADD "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Autodesk\AutoCAD\R24.2\ACAD-6101\Applications\TID_Startup" /v "LOADCTRLS" /t REG_DWORD /d 2 /f
REG ADD "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Autodesk\AutoCAD\R24.2\ACAD-6101\Applications\TID_Startup" /v "LOADER" /t REG_SZ /d "C:\AcadCustom\Support_GS\TID_Startup.dll" /f
REG ADD "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Autodesk\AutoCAD\R24.2\ACAD-6101\Applications\TID_Startup" /v "MANAGED" /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
Ed
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