Installing through UI doesn't work in 2.80

nutti / Screencast-Keys

Blender Add-on: Screencast Keys

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Installing through UI doesn't work in 2.80 #12

Closed Caleb9 closed 4 years ago

Caleb9 commented 4 years ago

System Information

OS: Windows 10
Blender version: 2.80
Add-on version: master (8070928e15d42384cc764f7cd4fb6e4882582721)

Expected behavior
Plugin installs from zip file using User Preferences in Blender.

Description about the bug
Plugin doesn't show up in Add-ons menu after installing from .zip file. I had to manually copy contents of src/screencastkeys into %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.80\scripts\addons\screencastkeys\

Phanabani commented 4 years ago

Are there any error messages in the system console when you try to install?

Caleb9 commented 4 years ago

Hi @Hawkpath, nope:

BTW. tried with ba54282 now.

raindropsfromsky commented 4 years ago

I have Blender 2.82 running on Windows 10 Home (64 bits), and I face the same issue. But in my case the installation has created the folder here:

But the addon does NOT appear in the installed addon list.

Then I followed the tip from the first reporter, and it worked. (All I had to do was to activate the addon from the Edit>Preferences > Add-ons dialog.)

But the installation path for the addon is different:

So this could be a wrong path issue.

ArtemkaJS commented 4 years ago

It still doesn't work for me, after all this manipulations.

ArtemkaJS commented 4 years ago

Ok, i solved this issue. Run Blender as administrator and install addon as zip file.

nutti commented 4 years ago

I think this issue comes from the installation method. We need to download .zip file from newest release version instead of unstable version. If you try to install from unstable version, you must unzip it manually and copy src/screencast directory to your add-on folder.

If you have any further issues, please reopen this issue or create new issue.