Using GH_SettingsServer in an RHP

I have done something horribly wrong. I wrote an RHP that attempts to use GH_SettingsServer to store and refresh certain values. In order to pull this off, I renamed Grasshopper.dll and GH_IO.dll and referenced them in my project. I then packaged it all up in an installer that deploys the RHP and dlls to the plug-ins folder and registers the plugin in the Registry.

Everything works great except for one small detail. After the installation, existing installations of Grasshopper are pretty much destroyed. All of the non-plugin components come up missing. A reinstall of Grasshopper fixed the problem, but obviously I want to avoid the problem in the first place.

Any thoughts?

Marc

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on August 13, 2015 at 2:05pm

Yeah renaming and copying around assemblies is not a good idea. You may be able to hack together a way to make this work, but it'll be more work and more dangerous than just writing a settings implementation of your own.

Permalink Reply by Marc Syp on August 14, 2015 at 12:59pm