Extension greyed out
Doubletop12 opened this issue · 10 comments
Inkscape 1.3 and Laser Tool 1.0 and Win 10
The extension "Generate Lase Gcode" appears in the list but the "J-Tech-Photonics-Laser-Tool " is greyed out and nothing happens when it is clicked.
Extension is located in "C:\Users\Pete\AppData\Roaming\inkscape\extensions\J-Tech-Photonics-Laser-Tool-1.0-beta_ink0.9"
Pete
I have now removed Inkscape 1.3 and replaced it with 1.2 the greyed out laser tool menu item is now not greyed out. However the laser tool dialogue box still doesn't appear.
Hi, are you sure you're using the extension's latest release? I think file path should look more like C:\Users\Pete\AppData\Roaming\inkscape\extensions\laser.
@PadLex that is what the instructions say but when you unzip the files to the location you get
"C:\Users\Pete\AppData\Roaming\inkscape\extensions\J-Tech-Photonics-Laser-Tool-1.0-beta_ink0.9" the menu item is "J-Tech-Photonics-Laser-Tool-1.0-beta_ink0.9"
if you rename the folder to
"C:\Users\Pete\AppData\Roaming\inkscape\extensions\laser" you still get "J-Tech-Photonics-Laser-Tool-1.0-beta_ink0.9" as the menu item
I have now tried it with 1.02 and the menu item is greyed out so I have gone back to 1.2 where the menu item is not greyed out and with the folder name chnged to laser. Still the extension doesn't open
I have now found the debug bat file and get this at startup. However Inkscape starts and appear to work but the menu laser menu item does not work and no further debug messages
Launching Inkscape, please wait...
warning: onecore\base\appmodel\runtime\winrt\lib\windows.applicationmodel.package.cpp(1008)\Windows.ApplicationModel.dll!00007FF9E508F63F: (caller: 00007FF9E507C5BC) ReturnHr(1) tid(35d8) 80070002 The system cannot find the file specified.
warning: onecore\base\appmodel\runtime\winrt\lib\windows.applicationmodel.package.cpp(512)\Windows.ApplicationModel.dll!00007FF9E508F4B1: (caller: 00007FF9ABC1BDE3) ReturnHr(2) tid(35d8) 80070002 The system cannot find the file specified.
Could the extension be nested in another folder? What's the absolute path to laser.py and the svg_to_gcode folder?
@PadLex Thanks that got me looking and I don't have an SVG-to-Gcode. appart from a casual mention in a requirements.txt file there is no reference to needing it in the README.md so I hadn't installed it. But Github has many variants available. Which one please?
@PadLex Another look in Github and realise you have a copy of svg-to-gcode available. I have done the pip install svg-to gcode and I got
Installing collected packages: svg-to-gcode
Successfully installed svg-to-gcode-1.5.4
But still nothing. I have no idea where svg-to-gcode ended up but laser.py is in " C:\Users\Pete\AppData\Roaming\inkscape\extensions\laser"
So I copied the "laser" folder to C:\Program "Files\Inkscape\share\inkscape\extensions\laser" and now I get the J-Tech popup window. But clicking "Apply" gives me
BTW this is with Inkscape v1.2 only, the menu items are still greyed out in v1.3
Plus the folder "laser" containing laser.py has to be in both the paths shown above. Then you will get two instances in the extensions menu but only the top one invokes the J-Tech popup window.
Amongst other things I am getting this in the extension-errors.log when Inkscape opens up
Extension "J Tech Photonics Laser Tool" failed to load because a dependency was not met.
Dependency:
type: file
location: extensions
string: inkex.py
The main extension folder for inkex exists here "C:\Program Files\Inkscape\share\inkscape\extensions" but there is no inkex.py file only inx.py
Because of this message in "C:\Users\Pete\AppData\Roaming\inkscape\extension-errors.log
Extension "J Tech Photonics Laser Tool" failed to load because a dependency was not met.
Dependency:
type: file
location: extensions
string: inkex.py
I put a dummy inkex.py into "C:\Users\Pete\AppData\Roaming\inkscape\extensions" and the message went away so is laser.py looking in the wrong place?
I have nothing in my Windows paths that points to any of this stuff so should I have and what should it be?
This only works with Inkscape V1.1.2 (not 1.0 or 1.2 or 1.3)