[MonoDevelop] "Creating a Simple Addin"

[Vasili I. Galchin]

Michael,

I picked your first solution. Still no DateInserter under Edit tab.
I.e. I changed the *addin.xml (manifest), did a clean and rebuilt ....
then copied the .dll to ~/.config/MonoDevelop/addins. What about the
.mdb file that is built with the .dll? Should I move it? What is a
.mdb?

Vasili

On 1/22/10, Michael Hutchinson <m.j.hutchinson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 8:35 PM, Vasili I. Galchin <vigalchin at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>>      I am practicing with Monodevelop's (Mono's??) ability to
>> implement addins over extention points:
>> /home/vasili/Documents/MonodevelopCreating_a_Simple_Add-in.html. I
>> have higher goals that this exercise ;^). In any case, when I restart
>> monodevelop after moving the MonoDevelop.Samples.DateInserter.dll into
>>  ~/.config/MonoDevelop/addins/ , I get a load-time/run-time
>> errors/warnings:
>>
>> WARNING: The add-in 'MonoDevelop.Samples.DateInserter,2.0' is trying
>> to extend '/MonoDevelop/Ide/Commands/Edit', but there isn't any add-in
>> defining this extension point
>> WARNING: The add-in 'MonoDevelop.Samples.DateInserter,2.0' is trying
>> to extend
>> '/MonoDevelop/Ide/Commands/Edit/MonoDevelop.Samples.DateInserter.DateInserterCommands.InsertDate',
>> but there isn't any add-in defining this extension point
>> WARNING: The add-in 'MonoDevelop.Samples.DateInserter,2.0' is trying
>> to extend '/MonoDevelop/Ide/MainMenu/Edit', but there isn't any add-in
>> defining this extension point
>> WARNING: The add-in 'MonoDevelop.Samples.DateInserter,2.0' is trying
>> to extend
>> '/MonoDevelop/Ide/MainMenu/Edit/MonoDevelop.Samples.DateInserter.Commands.InsertDate',
>> but there isn't any add-in defining this extension point
>> WARNING [2010-01-22 19:14:54Z]: Inotify watch limit is too low (8192).
>> MonoDevelop will switch to managed file watching.
>> See http://www.monodevelop.com/Inotify_Watches_Limit for more info.
>> ERROR [2010-01-22 19:14:55Z]: Add-in error
>> (MonoDevelop.Samples.DateInserter,2.0): Add-in could not be loaded:
>> The required addin 'MonoDevelop.Samples.MonoDevelop.Ide,2.0' is not
>> installed.
>> Mono.Addins.MissingDependencyException: The required addin
>> 'MonoDevelop.Samples.MonoDevelop.Ide,2.0' is not installed.
>>  at Mono.Addins.AddinSessionService.ResolveLoadDependencies
>> (System.Collections.ArrayList addins, System.Collections.Stack
>> depCheck, System.String id, Boolean optional) [0x00000]
>>  at Mono.Addins.AddinSessionService.ResolveLoadDependencies
>> (System.Collections.ArrayList addins, System.Collections.Stack
>> depCheck, System.String id, Boolean optional) [0x00000]
>> ERROR [2010-01-22 19:14:55Z]: Add-in error (MonoDevelop.Samples.DateI
>
> It appears to be trying to load "MonoDevelop.Samples.MonoDevelop.Ide"
> as a dependency, which is wrong.
>
> There is a slightly strange behaviour in Mono.Addins where the
> dependencies are resolved within the addin's namespace, i.e. if your
> addin namespace is "MonoDevelop.Samples" and you have a
> "MonoDevelop.Ide" dependency, you would get the behaviour you're
> seeing.
>
> The solution is either to use
> namespace="MonoDevelop" id= "Samples.DateInserter"
> and depend on "Ide"
> -or-
> id="MonoDevelop.Samples.DateInserter" (no namespace)
> and depend on "MonoDevelop.Ide"
>
> --
> Michael Hutchinson
> http://mjhutchinson.com
>