helper.js problem

[Jordan Squire]

The following javascript no longer functions for me after upgrading to 7.0:

require('.\\scripts\\helper.js')
var h = new helper();
var noaa = h.getPlugin("NOAA");
log(noaa.isDark());

It appears that the NOAA plugin is not retrieved and hence noaa.isDark() returns an error. Any suggestions?

[Paul Craven]

I was using this as well.  Can anyone help?

[Jordan Squire]

Someone? Anyone!? ECHO...echo...echo...

[Rob Chartier]

Looks like a pretty easy problem to solve, the plugin name was changed.  This works:

require('.\\scripts\\helper.js')

var h = new helper();

var noaa = h.getPlugin("NOAA Plug-in for ZVS");

log(noaa.isDark());

notice the call to h.getPlugin()

instead of just "NOAA", change it to: "NOAA Plug-in for ZVS"

Cheers,

-Rob

On Tuesday, December 17, 2013 11:01:30 AM UTC-8, Jordan Squire wrote:

Someone? Anyone!? ECHO...echo...echo...

[Jordan Squire]

Rob, thanks for your help! However, the code modification you suggest does not work for me. I still get an error upon calling noaa.isDark(). The error I receive is:
"Finished with errors. Function expected", so it appears that the plugin is still not loaded. I am on zVirtualScenes version 7.0.949.

- Jordan

[Rob Chartier]

Funny..it was disabled on my machine, and it still executed without errors.

 

Now that it is enabled, it still executes without error..this is from source though.  I will download 949 and try it..

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[Rob Chartier]

 

Definitely working for me here..for build 949.

 

Make sure that you do have the scripts:

 

C:\Program Files\zVirtualScenes\scripts\

 

And that helper.js is in that folder.

 

It looks like it is *not* installed by default with the MSI installer.

[Paul Craven]

Thanks for the help Rob.  Can you paste in your helper.js?  I had noticed the scripts folder was not installed with 7.0.0.949.  I just added the directory and the helper.js file.

I made the small change but I can't seem to get it working.  I've tried on 2 PCs.

[Rob Chartier]

I used the one from the HEAD/TRUNK, found here:

https://code.google.com/p/zvirtualscenes/source/browse/trunk/zvs.WPF/scripts/helper.js

Also make sure the plugin is enabled.

Also, try this..

var noaa = h.getPlugin("NOAA Plug-in for ZVS");

log(noaa);

What does that output?

[Paul Craven]

I have the plugin enabled.

log(noaa);

outputs:

"NOAAPlugin.NOAAPlugin" without quotes in the log.

[Jordan Squire]

Updating to the newest helper.js worked for me. Thanks Rob!

[Paul Craven]

Ha!  Got it working here too!  Tried again on my other PC starting from scratch with new scripts and it's working.

Thanks for the help, Rob!

[Robert Dobbs]

Just for the reference of future dummies, like myself, be careful how you "copy-n-paste" the files from the source tree into the scripts directory.  I kept getting this error due to a bunch of strange "?"s in the pasted source code which I could not see until I loaded it up into Notepad++ .   On the source tree in your browser, Show details -> View raw file...