[8.0ß4 x32]Lister-Plugin Excellence Doesn't Work Anymore

norfie² · Post by *norfie² » 2011-10-09, 11:18 UTC

Excellence shows only the message "Excellence - v1.20 - Total Commander plugin" instead of the contents of the choosen file.

Post by *petermad » 2011-10-09, 12:14 UTC

It works fine here in TC 8.0b4 32bit version - both when run under Win XP 32bit and Win 7 x64

Post by *ghisler(Author) » 2011-10-09, 14:18 UTC

Maybe the plugin cannot be found?

norfie² · Post by *norfie² » 2011-10-09, 16:56 UTC

Maybe the plugin cannot be found?

It doesn't seem so. Caption conains all proper strings "Lister (excellence) - D:\DATA\TEST.XLS" and I suppose that the content of Lister window "Excellence - v1.20 - Total Commander plugin" comes from the plugin.

No problems with v7.56a (with the same wincmd.ini ...).

wincmd.ini wrote:x=%COMMANDER_PATH%\PLUGINS\WLX\Excellence\excellence.wlx
x_detect="EXT="XLS"|EXT="XLW""

Post by *petermad » 2011-10-09, 18:49 UTC

x=%COMMANDER_PATH%\PLUGINS\WLX\Excellence\excellence.wlx
x_detect="EXT="XLS"|EXT="XLW""

That works fine here...

norfie² · Post by *norfie² » 2011-10-11, 19:37 UTC

After reinstallation of plugin it works now. Maybe an old v1.20 was installed before - at least the dates of excellence files are changed (january before and february 2010 after reinstallation).

Thread can be closed.

Post by *petermad » 2011-10-11, 20:50 UTC

My execellence 1.20 is dated feb. 04 - 2010, 07:51 so you are probably right .

norfie² · Post by *norfie² » 2011-10-12, 07:56 UTC

For the records only:
old version with problem: 1.20.07 is dated 2010-01-23 11:17
version without problem: 1.20.09 is dated 2010-02-02 8:51
(+-1 hour because of daylight savings)

EricB · Post by *EricB » 2011-10-12, 09:06 UTC

Hi,

I'm experiencing the same problem as Norfie described before, but also using the latest version of Excellence (1.20.09). I've done a complete uninstall and reinstall of the plugin, also exiting TC in between, but to no avail. The only thing I can think of is that the plugin cannot read or write from/to lsplugin.ini file. I've tried copying the settings for Excellence from TC 7.56 lsplugin.ini but that did not work. One thing that is uncommon in my installation is that I've redirected all plugin sections to a separate plugin.ini file, but this works without problems for all other plugins, as far as I can see.

Using TC8 Beta 4 x32 on Win 7 Pro x64.

Regards, EricB.

Post by *petermad » 2011-10-12, 09:34 UTC

One thing that is uncommon in my installation is that I've redirected all plugin sections to a separate plugin.ini

So have I, and I don't have any problems.

My TC is Installed in the root of drive C: with write permissions to TC's program dir and UseIniInProgramDir=7, hence lsplugin.ini is placed in TC's program dir and writable.

EricB · Post by *EricB » 2011-10-12, 09:49 UTC

Yes,

My TC installation is comparable, in root of D: and also using UseIniInProgramDir=7 for portability purposes. I see that some other plugins like Syn2 have no problem writing to lsplugin.ini file, so write permissions is not the problem. My hunch was more that it seems that Excellence cannot find the lsplugin.ini, maybe due to the redirect of plugin configuration to d:\Tc8\Settings\Plugins.ini, which means it is not in the same dir as lsplugin.ini file, but that seems a bit far fetched.

And maybe a bit OT, but I would prefer that every plugin would write its own ini in its own folder. That's more historical preference, I guess

Sir_SiLvA · Post by *Sir_SiLvA » 2011-10-12, 10:18 UTC

EricB wrote:And maybe a bit OT, but I would prefer that every plugin would write its own ini in its own folder. That's more historical preference, I guess

I would LOVE that too or a way to redirect files like decThumbsDBViewer.ini
FSPLUGIN.INI LSPLUGIN.INI NoClose.ini PKPLUGIN.INI Syn.ini SynState.ini
tcwebdav.ini to a folder of MY choosing *dreamy eyes*

EricB · Post by *EricB » 2011-12-01, 12:36 UTC

Well, to fire up this thread again....

I've been doing some experimenting and still cannot get Excellence 1.20f to work with TC 8 (beta10 now). I've also tried starting TC8 with a clean ini, and only installing Excellence. Same behaviour as described before: Lister shows Excellence in the header and Excellence 1.20f Total Commander plugin (and only that) in the body. Furthermore, the lsplugin.ini, where Excellence normally stores its preferences, is untouched.
I've also tried using a real TC folder in the drive (normally it is junctioned into my Dropbox location), but same result for full and clean ini. In TC 7.56a I never had any problems.

I've dug up the old Excellence 1.11 from 2005, and that one works, but only for xls files, since that old version only supports xls, and no csv, sylk etc. I can live with the (even older) wlx_csv, but prefer a working Excellence.

Anyone any clues? Some hidden dependencies maybe?

Regards, EricB

EricB · Post by *EricB » 2011-12-07, 12:37 UTC

Solved!

It took some time experimenting but I finally found the cause: there is indeed a hidden dependency, which is the presence of UnAcev2.dll in the TC folder. I've the habit of moving TC files that I do not use (like the parallel and USB port drivers, Win95/NT related stuff, uninstaller etc) to a subfolder. After moving back the Unacev2.dll the Excellence plugin immediately started working again. I'll address this to the author, maybe he is even willing to release a 64-bit version.

Regards, EricB

Edit:
Most curious! The dependency is only name dependent, a zero-byte file with the correct name also makes Excellence function.

Post by *ghisler(Author) » 2011-12-07, 16:41 UTC

Thanks for your feedback! The plugin probably performs this checks so it cannot be used by other programs - only the author can answer that.