Nothing appering when trying to test

[MTRNord]

I used as base the lamp dir for my NGINX Builder but when I try to drag and drop my folder into the pibakery program nothing appears. No Success and no error. Code is here: https://github.com/MTRNord/pibakery-blocks/tree/10f3cfcb089c7c24b544cd5d20ba5f6e113c1b2e/nginx

[davidferguson]

Apologies, there was an error in my docs, the "type" and "category" should be set to "software", rather than "program".

Thanks for pointing this out - I've now fixed the docs.

[MTRNord]

Still it doesn't want to import it. Same to all directories. I use Windows 7 as system and an completly fresh Version. Not even any Output about it in the Log (using the flag --enable-logging)

[MTRNord]

If I manually put it into "C:\Program Files (x86)\PiBakery\resources\app\pibakery-blocks" and add it to the "info.json" it works. Drag and Drop into Workspace does nothing

[davidferguson]

That's odd, I got it to work for me. If you do CTRL-SHIFT-I, you'll see the developer inspector, if you go into the "Console" tab, are there any errors?

And can you post the contents of your nginx.json file?

[MTRNord]

Code of nginx.json

{
    "name": "nginx",
    "text": "Builds NGINX with http2, ssl and ipv6 support\\nRequires internet connection",
    "script": "nginxBuild.sh",
    "args": [],
    "network": true,
    "continue": true,
    "type": "software",
    "category":"software",
    "shortDescription":"Install a web server on your Raspberry Pi. Requires internet connection.",
    "longDescription":"NGINX is a web server for more experienced users to run their websites. This builds NGINX from source."
}

At the Dev Console I will have a look

[MTRNord]

Dev Console gives no special errors about the Drag and Drop action. Only the expected missing Configs on my USB Devices are in the Dev Console.

[davidferguson]

Just tried your nginx.json, and it did work for me (image attached). I'm going to reinstall my copy of PiBakery - just in case I'm using a different version than the one on the downloads page.

[MTRNord]

I think I got an trace. I added an "console.log(error) at Line 2381 in the pibakery.js file and got: "Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, stat 'C:\Program Files (x86)\PiBakery\resources\app\nginx\C:\Program Files (x86)\PiBakery\resources\app\nginx.json'(…)" when dropping. Seems like it messes with the path somehow.

I try the same now from another directory location

[davidferguson]

I'll have to look into that a little bit later - as I'm on a Mac right now and therefore can't reproduce that error.

[MTRNord]

ok maybe I find an fix on myself (I also work with electron ^^). If I got an fix I will give you an pull request

[MTRNord]

Error seems like that win does use an backslash in it's paths. I write an exception for windows therefore

[MTRNord]

I think this issue can be closed because I added an pull request with the fix

[davidferguson]

Just tested it and that worked perfectly - thanks.

I'm building a new Windows version right now, and as soon as that's done I'll upload it. Uploading will take a while on my abysmal connection, but hopefully this can be released tonight.

[davidferguson]

Hmm, I've now tested on Windows 8 and it seems there's another bug, but this time it's actually in Windows. It seems that on some versions of Windows, drag-drop isn't allowed with programs that run as Administrator: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/patricka/2010/01/28/q-why-doesnt-drag-and-drop-work-when-my-application-is-running-elevated-a-mandatory-integrity-control-and-uipi/

I may add a shortcut in that opens a selection pane for users to choose a folder.

[davidferguson]

I've now added a shortcut to open a dialog to choose a folder, which gets round the drag-drop not working on some version of Windows. PiBakery is being re-packaged and I'll upload it after that.

[davidferguson]

The latest version of PiBakery (0.2.4) fixes this issue. If you are finding that you are not able to drag-drop your block folder into PiBakery, the keybaord shortcut CTRL (CMD on Mac) + Shift + "+" (plus key) can be used to open a dialog to choose your block folder.

[MTRNord]

I already working on another optimation to better resolving of the path problem which came up here. :) I think path.join() could be better than path.normalize(). Also my fix is more like an workaround. I am testing it on windows just now. If my Idea works you get another pull request. And tanks for the fast and helpfull Help!!