Comments on: Mac Plugin Developers – You Should Be Using Native Paths!

By: Ben Supnik

Ben Supnik — Sun, 14 Dec 2014 22:40:56 +0000

In reply to BlueSideUpBob. Bob, please contact me off-blog by email if you need help with your plugin.

By: BlueSideUpBob

BlueSideUpBob — Sun, 14 Dec 2014 20:47:55 +0000

In reply to Ben Supnik.

By: Ben Supnik

Ben Supnik — Sun, 14 Dec 2014 16:42:21 +0000

In reply to BlueSideUpBob.

XPluginStart is fine – basically the sooner you call it, the sooner you can use native paths. So you want to call it before you make any SDK calls that return a file path.

If the Apple Crash report from the crash shows a crash inside XPLM.dylib, send me the crash report.
If the Apple Crash report from the crash shows a crash inside your plugin, you probably have a problem with your linker settings.

By: BlueSideUpBob

BlueSideUpBob — Sun, 14 Dec 2014 16:23:17 +0000

“Doing so is really easy – it generally involves adding the one line above and deleting your HFS code (which is fun).”

How much fun? What I am really asking is: how is this done?

Blue side up,
Bob

By: BlueSideUpBob

BlueSideUpBob — Sun, 14 Dec 2014 03:50:31 +0000

Where is the XPLMEnableFeature(“XPLM_USE_NATIVE_PATHS”,1); properly located? When placed at the beginning of XPluginStart the plugin promptly crashes.

Blue side up,
Bob