TBC Macros and Extensions

Hi Justin,

Welcome to TBC Macros Community. 
Please follow the threads posted in the "Library" section of the community. This should walk you through the setup for getting your environment ready as well as creating your first Macro. 

https://community.trimble.com/communities/community-homepage/librarydocuments?communitykey=8a262af4-a35e-4e9a-9dd3-191cc785899a&LibraryFolderKey=&DefaultView=

 Glad to you have interested in developing macros!

EDIT

Please see Ronny's post. It appears some of the tutorials are a little dated and I'll make note of that for our side to get updates into our training materials!  

Ronny,

you are simply amazing ! I didn´t know that you created those videos but they are great ! This is exactly what we would have needed many years ago when we started with TML macros without any documentation...

Exactly this is what a manufacturer must offer to the developer community as we help them to sell much more software and hardware, so it would be the minimum, as we know from other development environments such us for AutoCAD, Civil 3D, Revit, SketchUp, etc, but anyway, you did their job (again) and we all really appreciate it and for the new developers, probably you don´t know yet, but Ronny just saved you months and months of trial-error and self trying, and a lot of frustration  !

So in the name of the whole community BIG THANK YOU Ronny!

Regards,

Fernando

Thanks Ronny and others!  I tried a number of changes at once, so I'm not sure what exactly worked, but now tbcMacros shows up as a template.  I will look into previous posts this weekend, but I think the only problem left is setting MacroCommands3 to not be read-only.  It seems to be set for all users, but not the creator owner. 

I would like to point out that when you are creating a new project, you should make sure NOT to have a filter for new projects by 'Python', apparently Iron Python is something different.  This kept me from even seeing tbcMacros, if it was there.

At this time, a google search for "web archive visual studio 2019" will get you to the awesome archive.org and a link for VS2019 download.  I was also impressed that VS2019 was able to install the latest update.

Thanks again,

Justin

It should be enough if you set "Users" to have "Full Control" (Modify, Read/Write etc.)

On my machine "Creator Owner" shows none of them and even my own name doesn't, but "Users" does which means everybody that uses the computer.

That is one of the most annoying things Trimble came up with, with the change to IronPython 3.

In the beginning it worked if you created the folder manual with your own account, since that meant you were the owner. Nowadays that has changed and any rights you may have had over that folder are taken from you with every TBC installation and IT needs to revoke it every time again. I really would like to meet the responsible people who supposedly forced Trimble into doing that nonsense.

Hi @Ronny Schneider,

Thank you for the training. It was just awesome how you took your time to put it all together. Thank you very much.

I have an issue with debugging. When I set up a breakpoint, the code simply does not stop there, which makes my life quite harder. I'm wondering if you've seen anything like that. The only difference I noticed between my setup and yours is that in the Debug settings, you have the Launch mode set to "IronPython (.NET) launcher," and I don't even have that option. Im using VS2019 and IronPython3.4. 

I'm sorry if my question is too basic.

Hello Vitalii,

which options do you have in that field?

Did you use the template that came with the Macro SDK to start your visual studio solution?

Do you have a file .pyproj in the folder where the VS solution is stored? Can you upload it here.

Did you add the "out of support" Ironpython to Visual Studio?

Thanks, Ronny. I did not have the checkbox checked for IronPython. Now it looks like it is working. Thank you!