Maintaining plugin actions

Hoping to get around, this weekend, to fixing some broken plugins, and wondering what gaps there might be in my understanding of them.

With various plugins which did work at one stage, I have for some time been getting Console.log messages of the form:

27/05/2016 11:21:50.945 Keyboard Maestro[6013]: Invalid Plug In Action with Name Choose File(s)

etc

A couple of questions before I start:

  • Am I right in thinking that the problem is likely to be some aspect of the relevant .plist file ?
  • Were there any changes in the KM6 to KM7 transition that I should think about ?

(The only release note mention that I can see reads (7.01):

Fixed multiline text fields in plugin action editors.

but I may well be missing something, because I am not entirely sure that I really know what plugin action editors are :slight_smile:

I know this was slightly tongue-in-cheek, but just in case, I suspect this refers to the panel you get when you drop an action into a macro. The thing I hope to see documented in the next release notes, that says "Fixed the display of Label names in plugin action editors." :slight_smile:

As for the rest, I'll be interested in hearing (reading) what you discover.

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Ah, of course … need more coffee …

Thanks !

PS One thing I do notice is that some of the messages relate to plugins which are not on what I had thought was the only import path ~/Library/Application Support/Keyboard Maestro/Keyboard Maestro Actions

In fact, when KM launches, it also seems to attempt a load of plugins in other folders descending from ~/Library/Application Support/Keyboard Maestro

( I had made the mistake of putting some unfinished or intermediate versions in another peer folder which I though would not be loaded from )

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