Plug-in freezes the loading window when installed using *.yak file

Hi @dale, @stevebaer,

The plug-in has been updated internally to reference Rhino 7 and .Net framework 4.8.

When installing it manually using the plug-in manager window, it works fine.

However, when trying to install it using *.yak file, it freezes the loading window.

Thank you for your help.

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Are you able to share the .yak file with us so we can try to reproduce this behaviour? You can send it via a private message if it isn’t publicly available.

@will @dale @stevebaer

Hello,

I would like to know if you’ve got any updates on the issue with the yak file I sent to Will two weeks ago?

I’m able to reproduce the freeze and I believe the plug-in is trying to perform actions that require user input which isn’t possible when the modal “Preparing Plug-ins for First Use” dialog has focus. Using the plug-in manager or drag/drop to install works fine, because this dialog isn’t shown. This is related to the plug-in loading for the first time during Rhino startup, rather than a specific installation method.

@dale do you have any pointers here? Is is possible for a plug-in to show UI when the “Preparing Plug-ins for First Use” modal dialog is open? On load, the plug-in attempts to minimise Rhino in order to bring its own dialog to the front. I also see the -Open command being called, but again the command line is unable to receive input. Either one of these situations will prevent Rhino from starting.