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bennymeg / Fabrication-Toolkit

An JLC PCB Fabrication Plugin for KiCad
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Plugin fails to start with error in plugin.py line 12, "The wx.App object must be created first!" #93

Closed monohydroxy closed 11 months ago

monohydroxy commented 11 months ago

After installing the plug-in and restarting KiCAD, we I push the Fabrication Toolkit button it immediately fails with the error below: The plugin fails to start with error in plugin.py line 12, "The wx.App object must be created first!"

I'm running Ubuntu 22.04 and KiCAD 6.0.2+dfsg-1,release build. The plugin is version 3.0.0 and was installed from within KiCAD from the repository.

Am I doing something wrong or do I have a mismatch of versions?

bennymeg commented 11 months ago

I think you have to save the board once first before invoking the plugin. Can you try that?

monohydroxy commented 11 months ago

Thank you for the suggestion. Unfortunately it did not work. I added some new text to the PCB and saved, but I still got the same error. I also updated to 6.0.11 and the problem persists.

In a google search I found this strange website with a suggestion to add the line 'self.app = wx.PySimpleApp()' in the init function. I tried that suggestion,and it gave me a different error and then crashed.

Is the plugin supposed to create the ws app or does KiCad create it? Is this a new feature of the wx framework? I'm not familiar with it.

Strange website: https://techoverflow.net/2023/03/01/how-to-fix-kicad-jlcpcb-fabrication-plugin-error-the-wx-app-object-must-be-created-first/ New error: in method 'BOARD_DESIGN_SETTINGS_m_SolderMaskMargin_set', argument 2 of type 'int'

bennymeg commented 11 months ago

Adding 'self.app = wx.PySimpleApp()' cause weird issues. The second issue was fixed in 3.0.2.

monohydroxy commented 11 months ago

I think this is related to: https://forum.kicad.info/t/solved-nightly-6-99-broken-scripting-console-linux-ubuntu-22-10-22-04/39302 My scripting console doesn't work as well. It seems to be a mismatch between wxPython, wxWidgets and KiCad version assumptions.

monohydroxy commented 11 months ago

The plugin works without issues with KiCad 7.0.7 installed from a Snap. Closing this issue since I'll move my project to to version 7 soon and I don't think it is a plugin bug.