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Sean McCormack
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Sean McCormackCommunity Expert
Community Expert
May 16, 2009
Question

change from .lrdevplugin to .lrplugin breaks the plugin

  • May 16, 2009
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Em.. as all my experience is in Web, this is a new one on me.

I've built a metadata plugin that adds an 'enum' drop down menu and a 'string' field.

Works fine as a .lrdevplugin but when I change the extension to .lrplugin it gives an error (yes I've removed the dev version and then added the .lrplugin via the plugin manager).

When I Add, I get the following error:

**** Error 1

An error occurred while attempting to load this plug-in.

The following error occurred while running Info.lua: PluginInfoProvider.lua:2: attempt to call global 'require' (a nil value)

Any ideas?

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Sean McCormack
Community Expert
Sean McCormackCommunity ExpertAuthor
Community Expert
May 16, 2009

Hmm... reloading made it work this time, but not others.... very odd..

Sean McCormack. Author of 'Essential Development 3'. Magazine Writer. Former Official Fuji X-Photographer.
DawMatt
DawMatt
Inspiring
May 21, 2009

Hi Sean,

Not directly related to your problem, but you don't actually need to remove the .lrdevplugin version of the plugin when you want to test the release version.

If you have both .lrplugin and .lrdevplugin versions installed at the same time LR knows they are the same because of the shared LrToolkitIdentifier value.  LR will only allow one to be enabled at a time.  So when you want to change the version you are testing simply enable one version of the plugin and the other will automatically be disabled.  This is really handy when people are asking for help for the released version of your plugin, and you are working on a new version of the same plugin.

Matt

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