Internal error occurs when getting the property of anchored frame with FM2015

[AIAIAI]

Hi.

I have a plugin working with FM2015.

I use the following code to add an anchored frame and change the property.

AFrameId = F_ApiNewAnchoredObject(docId, FO_AFrame, &Loc);
props = F_ApiGetProps(docId, AFrameId);
j = F_ApiGetPropIndex(&props, FP_AnchorType);	
props.val[j].propVal.u.ival = FV_ANCHOR_SUBCOL_LEFT;
j = F_ApiGetPropIndex(&props, FP_Fill);
props.val[j].propVal.u.ival = FV_FILL_WHITE;
...

F_ApiSetProps(docId, AFrameId, &props);
F_ApiDeallocatePropVals(&props);

After running F_ApiGetProps(), the following internal error occurs.

This plugin works well with FM2020, but not FM2015.
Is there a way to solve this?

[yatani]

Hi.

&Loc on the first line is undefined.

[AIAIAI]

&Loc is defined and I have checked that it's value is set.

[yatani]

Did you compile using the FDK specific to each version? FM2020 is 64bit only, so that may be the cause.

[AIAIAI]

Yes!

The plugin was originally for FM7 and I compiled for FM2015 and FM2020 using their respective FDKs.

[frameexpert]

I would comment out a few lines, recompile, and test again. For example,

//j = F_ApiGetPropIndex(&props, FP_AnchorType);	
//props.val[j].propVal.u.ival = FV_ANCHOR_SUBCOL_LEFT;
//j = F_ApiGetPropIndex(&props, FP_Fill);
//props.val[j].propVal.u.ival = FV_FILL_WHITE;

You want to determine what is actually making it crash.

[frameexpert · Accepted solution]

I suspect that the problem is with the way you are getting and setting properties. Instead of getting, updating, and setting the properties using props, try changing them directly, like this:

F_ApiSetInt(docId, AFrameId, FP_Fill, FV_ANCHOR_SUBCOL_LEFT);
F_ApiSetInt(docId, AFrameId, FP_Fill, FV_FILL_WHITE);

[AIAIAI]

I followed your idea and succeeded in setting the property with no inteanal error.

But,  another problem occures.

I want to set  the anchored frame's color, so I use the following code.

But this code failed, the frame's color is set to black.

colorId = F_ApiGetNamedObject(docId, FO_Color, (StringT)"Red");
F_ApiSetId(docId, AFrameId, FP_Color, colorId);

I also tried the following code, but it also failed, the frame's color is set to black.

colorId = F_ApiGetNamedObject(docId, FO_Color, (StringT)"Red");
setVal.propIdent.num = FP_Color;
setVal.propVal.valType = FT_Id;
setVal.propVal.u.ival = colorId;
F_ApiSetPropVal(docId, AFrameId, &setVal);

I found that after running F_ApiGetNamedObject(), the colorId is always set to 0, even I set the color to Red, bule, or Magenta.

Is there something wrong with my code?

[frameexpert]

Try this:

F_ApiSetInt(docId, AFrameId, FP_Fill, FV_FILL_BLACK);
colorId = F_ApiGetNamedObject(docId, FO_Color, (StringT)"Red");
F_ApiSetId(docId, AFrameId, FP_Color, colorId);

A graphic object has to be filled with black before a color can be applied to it.

[AIAIAI]

I tried your code, but the color of the frame is not set to red.

I also tried running the sample code "objstyle" and "text" because  F_ApiGetNamedObject() is used for coloring in the two samples, and the result is the coloring function not working.

Is there something wrong with the process of getting the color with F_ApiGetNamedObject()?

[frameexpert]

I am not sure why it's not working. I tested it with ExtendScript and it works. Try leaving off the StringT cast:

colorId = F_ApiGetNamedObject(docId, FO_Color, "Red");

[AIAIAI]

Even leaving off the StringT cast, coloring is also not working.

I think I'll give up on coloring with plugin in FM2015......

Previously, there was a phenomenon where processing could not be performed without displaying the file with FM2015, I feel like FM2015 is not very good.

Thanks to your advice, so I was able to resolve the internal error issue.