Flatpak: preferences dialog not active, plugin dead?

[leamas]

As heading says. After installing and activating the plugin, the preferences dialog does not become active.

This is actually about a large number of plugins, see OpenCPN/plugins#578. Will only file this one for testplugin plugins.

[jongough]

Testplugin does not use preferences and does not include that in the list of items in the Init function. So working as expected.

[jongough]

Can this be closed as it is not relevant to Testplugin as it has no preferences page?

[leamas]

Yes, if none of other plugins listed in OpenCPN/plugins#578 are using the testplugin templates.

[jongough]

This is not a template issue. If you don't have the requisite setup in the plugin code you will not get the preferences.There is nothing in the build process that would stop it working. If there was none of the setup information in the Init process would work.

[rgleason]

I have put this information and a link in the TP Plugins Issue here
#177

So this can be closed, but it is not fixed!!

[leamas]

Well, if this bug depends on #177, which it seems, it should not be closed as long as #177 is open.

OTOH, looking at #177 it seems unlikely it will be closed at some defined point.

@jongough: your call. Not important for me.

[jongough]

I have just run ODraw 1.8.13.0 from the alpha repository in flatpak on ubuntu 20.04, this fails to load due to:

15:45:02.397 MESSAGE pluginmanager.cpp:2232 PlugInManager: Loading PlugIn: /home/jon/.var/app/org.opencpn.OpenCPN/lib/opencpn/libocpn_draw_pi.so
15:45:02.397   ERROR dlunix.cpp:162 libwx_baseu-3.1.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
15:45:02.397 MESSAGE pluginmanager.cpp:2291    PlugInManager: Cannot load library: /home/jon/.var/app/org.opencpn.OpenCPN/lib/opencpn/libocpn_draw_pi.so 

If I load OD 1.8.12.0 is loads OK. There is only one difference for the flatpak build is the working one was built 27 days ago, the non-working one was built yesterday. github required that https be used instead of git.

The link of the flatpak module is the same:
1.8.12.0:

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 Running post build action on libocpn_draw_pi.so.

1.8.13.0:

/usr/bin/c++ -fPIC -O2 -g -pipe -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong -grecord-gcc-switches -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection  -fPIC -DFLATPAK -pthread -D__WXGTK3__ -O3 -DNDEBUG  -Wl,-Bsymbolic -shared -Wl,-soname,libocpn_draw_pi.so -o libocpn_draw_pi.so CMakeFiles/ocpn_draw_pi.dir/src/Boundary.cpp.o CMakeFiles/ocpn_draw_pi.dir/src/BoundaryCSVImport.cpp.o CMakeFiles/ocpn_draw_pi.dir/src/BoundaryMan.cpp.o CMakeFiles/ocpn_draw_pi.dir/src/BoundaryProp.cpp.o CMakeFiles/ocpn_draw_pi.dir/src/BoundaryPoint.cpp.o CMakeFiles/ocpn_draw_pi.dir/src/BoundaryPointCSVImport.cpp.o CMakeFiles/ocpn_draw_pi.dir/src/DR.cpp.o CMakeFiles/ocpn_draw_pi.dir/src/DRProp.cpp.o CMakeFiles/ocpn_draw_pi.dir/src/EBL.cpp.o CMakeFiles/ocpn_draw_pi.dir/src/EBLProp.cpp.o CMakeFiles/ocpn_draw_pi.dir/src/GZ.cpp.o CMakeFiles/ocpn_draw_pi.dir/src/GZMan.cpp.o CMakeFiles/ocpn_draw_pi.dir/src/GZProp.cpp.o CMakeFiles/ocpn_draw_pi.dir/src/ocpn_draw_pi.cpp.o CMakeFiles/ocpn_draw_pi.dir/src/ODAPI.cpp.o CMakeFiles/ocpn_draw_pi.dir/src/ODConfig.cpp.o CMakeFiles/ocpn_draw_pi.dir/src/ODdc.cpp.o CMakeFiles/ocpn_draw_pi.dir/src/ODDRDialogDef.cpp.o CMakeFiles/ocpn_draw_pi.dir/src/ODDRDialogImpl.cpp.o CMakeFiles/ocpn_draw_pi.dir/src/ODEventHandler.cpp.o CMakeFiles/ocpn_draw_pi.dir/src/ODicons.cpp.o CMakeFiles/ocpn_draw_pi.dir/src/ODIconCombo.cpp.o CMakeFiles/ocpn_draw_pi.dir/src/ODJSON.cpp.o CMakeFiles/ocpn_draw_pi.dir/src/ODLayer.cpp.o CMakeFiles/ocpn_draw_pi.dir/src/ODLinkPropertiesDialogDef.cpp.o CMakeFiles/ocpn_draw_pi.dir/src/ODLinkPropertiesDialogImpl.cpp.o CMakeFiles/ocpn_draw_pi.dir/src/ODMarkIcon.cpp.o CMakeFiles/ocpn_draw_pi.dir/src/ODNavObjectChanges.cpp.o CMakeFiles/ocpn_draw_pi.dir/src/ODNewODPointDialogDef.cpp.o CMakeFiles/ocpn_draw_pi.dir/src/ODNewODPointDialogImpl.cpp.o CMakeFiles/ocpn_draw_pi.dir/src/ODPath.cpp.o CMakeFiles/ocpn_draw_pi.dir/src/ODPathPropertiesDialogDef.cpp.o CMakeFiles/ocpn_draw_pi.dir/src/ODPathPropertiesDialogImpl.cpp.o CMakeFiles/ocpn_draw_pi.dir/src/ODPoint.cpp.o CMakeFiles/ocpn_draw_pi.dir/src/ODPointPropertiesDialog.cpp.o CMakeFiles/ocpn_draw_pi.dir/src/ODPointPropertiesImpl.cpp.o CMakeFiles/ocpn_draw_pi.dir/src/ODPositionParser.cpp.o CMakeFiles/ocpn_draw_pi.dir/src/ODPropertiesDialogDef.cpp.o CMakeFiles/ocpn_draw_pi.dir/src/ODPropertiesDialogImpl.cpp.o CMakeFiles/ocpn_draw_pi.dir/src/ODRolloverWin.cpp.o CMakeFiles/ocpn_draw_pi.dir/src/ODSelect.cpp.o CMakeFiles/ocpn_draw_pi.dir/src/ODShaders.cpp.o CMakeFiles/ocpn_draw_pi.dir/src/ODToolbarDef.cpp.o CMakeFiles/ocpn_draw_pi.dir/src/ODToolbarImpl.cpp.o CMakeFiles/ocpn_draw_pi.dir/src/ODUtils.cpp.o CMakeFiles/ocpn_draw_pi.dir/src/PathMan.cpp.o CMakeFiles/ocpn_draw_pi.dir/src/PathAndPointManagerDialogDef.cpp.o CMakeFiles/ocpn_draw_pi.dir/src/PathAndPointManagerDialogImpl.cpp.o CMakeFiles/ocpn_draw_pi.dir/src/PIL.cpp.o CMakeFiles/ocpn_draw_pi.dir/src/PILProp.cpp.o CMakeFiles/ocpn_draw_pi.dir/src/PILPropertiesDialogDef.cpp.o CMakeFiles/ocpn_draw_pi.dir/src/PILPropertiesDialogImpl.cpp.o CMakeFiles/ocpn_draw_pi.dir/src/PointMan.cpp.o CMakeFiles/ocpn_draw_pi.dir/src/TextPoint.cpp.o CMakeFiles/ocpn_draw_pi.dir/src/TextPointCSVImport.cpp.o CMakeFiles/ocpn_draw_pi.dir/src/ODPlatform.cpp.o CMakeFiles/ocpn_draw_pi.dir/ocpnsrc/bbox.cpp.o CMakeFiles/ocpn_draw_pi.dir/ocpnsrc/cutil.cpp.o CMakeFiles/ocpn_draw_pi.dir/ocpnsrc/geodesic.cpp.o CMakeFiles/ocpn_draw_pi.dir/ocpnsrc/georef.cpp.o CMakeFiles/ocpn_draw_pi.dir/ocpnsrc/Hyperlink.cpp.o CMakeFiles/ocpn_draw_pi.dir/ocpnsrc/SelectItem.cpp.o CMakeFiles/ocpn_draw_pi.dir/ocpnsrc/TexFont.cpp.o CMakeFiles/ocpn_draw_pi.dir/extsrc/clipper.cpp.o CMakeFiles/ocpn_draw_pi.dir/extsrc/pugixml.cpp.o CMakeFiles/ocpn_draw_pi.dir/extsrc/json-schema-validator/json-schema-draft7.json.cpp.o CMakeFiles/ocpn_draw_pi.dir/extsrc/json-schema-validator/json-uri.cpp.o CMakeFiles/ocpn_draw_pi.dir/extsrc/json-schema-validator/json-validator.cpp.o CMakeFiles/ocpn_draw_pi.dir/extsrc/json-schema-validator/json-patch.cpp.o CMakeFiles/ocpn_draw_pi.dir/libs/wxJSON/src/jsonreader.cpp.o CMakeFiles/ocpn_draw_pi.dir/libs/wxJSON/src/jsonval.cpp.o CMakeFiles/ocpn_draw_pi.dir/libs/wxJSON/src/jsonwriter.cpp.o  lib/libGLU.a libs/gdal/libGDAL.a libs/tinyxml/libTINYXML.a -L/app/lib -pthread -lwx_baseu-3.1 -lwx_gtk3u_core-3.1 -lwx_baseu_net-3.1 -lwx_baseu_xml-3.1 -lwx_gtk3u_html-3.1 -lwx_gtk3u_aui-3.1 -lgtk-3 -lgdk-3 -lpangocairo-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lharfbuzz -latk-1.0 -lcairo-gobject -lcairo -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lgio-2.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lbz2 -lz 

It would appear that the environment has been updated from wxWidgets 3.0 to wxWidgets 3.1.

[leamas]

It would appear that the environment has been updated from wxWidgets 3.0 to wxWidgets 3.1.

Sort of. The beta branch is updated to wx3.1 as announced here

However, builds should be done against the stable branch. See the shipdriver flatpak manifest for details.

[jongough]

I have just updated frontend2 to handle the change in wxWidgets for 20.08 and rebuilt ODraw. I have tried it on Ubuntu 20.04 with flatpak 20.08/stable and it all works including the preferences dialog. So it is not an issue with frontend2 that other plugins are not showing the preferences.

[rgleason]

Can't this be closed now?

[rgleason]

@jongough @leamas This is a very old post, it is generic and offers no specific insight into the issue and is unactionable. It is therefore appropriate to close it. Jon if Alec does not close this, please close. I cannot. Furthermore I believe it was fixed.