Thread: Problem creating .VB.net plugin

Right, it dosent load the plugin directly, the DotNetManager does. Are you seeing this error in the debugOutput file? If so this is normal.


Qt first tries to load it, and when it fails it passes it off to the DotNetManger to try and load.


For future reference, don't post in closed topics :P

There really should be a warning when a mod posts in a closed topic. It didn't look any different than a regular topic.

Yeah I see it in the debugOutput file. But my plugin (or your included sample plugin) isn't working. I think I got the sample code converted to VB ok, but I may just be an idiot. I'll post it up later today.

Code:

Imports System
Imports System.Collections.Generic
Imports InterfaceClasses

Public Class Plugin

    Public Sub New() 'wtf is this for?

    End Sub
    Private _hostPlugin As InterfaceClasses.IPluginHost
    Public Function Name() As String
        'This MUST be a single word, no spaces and unique to your plugin
        Return "SampleVBPlugin"
    End Function
    Public Function Author() As String
        Return "Tidder"
    End Function
    Public Function Description() As String
        Return "A small sample VB plugin"
    End Function
    Public Function Version() As String
        Return "1.0.0"
    End Function
    Public Sub Initialize(ByVal host As InterfaceClasses.IPluginHost)
        _hostPlugin = host
    End Sub
    Public Sub passPluginMessage(ByVal sender As String, ByVal message As String)
        Try
            Dim ipcmsg As New IPCMessage(message)
            If ipcmsg.getClass() = "test" Then
                If ipcmsg.getMethod() = "play" Then
                    _hostPlugin.passCoreMessage("SampleVBPlugin", "MediaEngine:media play")
                End If
            End If
        Catch ex As Exception
            MsgBox(ex.Message)


        End Try
    End Sub

End Class

how do you know my plugin isnt working? You don't have a skin file that takes advantage of it do you?

Reverse engineering... uhh... quantum physics... the alignment of the planets, err arora borealis?

This issue has been fixed. Turns out you have to go into project properties, and delete the "Root Namespace:" field.

And this is vb.net specific right?

Correct, in c# you just have to NOT put the Plugin class in a namespace, but apparently VB.net defaults to having your project in a "root" namespace so you have to go in and remove it.