App Settings Editor not working on Linux

Be it with SDK 3.0.6 or 3.0.8 and the ConnectIQ Eclipse Plugin 3.0.6 (in Eclipse 2018-12), the App Settings Editor does not work on Linux. Application.AppBase.onSettingsChanged() is correctly called but Application.Properties.getValue() keeps returning the default values.

By looking at the ${TMPDIR}/GARMIN/APPS/SETTINGS folder, I found the culprit might be case-sensitiveness of Linux and the fact that the <APP>.SET file (uppercase extension) created at the time the project is run in the simulator does not match the <APP>.set file (lowercase extension) that gets created/updated when the settings are sent (allegedly successfully) from the App Settings Editor.

By deleting the <APP>.set file and hard-linking it to the <APP>.SET file (ln <APP>.SET <APP>.set), properties *do* get updated as expected, reflecting the change made in the App Settings Editor.

flowstate over 7 years ago

Thanks for tracking that down. I did notice the difference in case as well, even though I’m on Windows where it supposedly doesn’t matter. (Although it does for the CIQ plugin, as you’ll see in a recent bug I posted about duplicate project names....)

This may be related to a bug I’ve experienced quite often on Windows, where sending settings to a data field app while it is running will cause all settings to be reset to default. In that case, my workaround is to kill the app before sending settings. (In other rare cases, sending settings doesn’t work at all for me, in which case I just have to hardcode test properties.)

Former Member over 7 years ago

I've got a ticket to track this. We will check it out.