Acknowledged
5 months ago

Bug: Unable to detect settings file for watchface/app on Linux

While checking out this https://github.com/Likenttt/DirtyReadPropertyDemo repo and trying to launch it on Linux I cannot get the settings to work as it states there isn't a settings file present. There is, as it works on Windows.

waterkip
  • 7 months ago

    Hi I am on linux (ubuntu 22.04) using vscode with the Monkey C plugin and it all worked fine with the provided example. If someone is investigating this feel free to ask for more details from me or anything. It seems really weird it does work for some and not for others.

    I encountered this issue because I thought it didn't work, but I just was missing the properties.xml file , which is included in the example above (thanks for that)

  • 7 months ago

    If your app is called "MySuperApp", it seems like the simulator, when clicking on "Edit Persistent Storage -> Edit Application.Properties data", is looking for the settings file in "/tmp/com.garmin.connectiq/GARMIN/Settings/MYSUPERAPP-settings.json".

    So if you manually start the simulator with:

    ${ACTIVE_SDK_PATH}/bin/simulator

    and you copy the `MySuperApp-settings.json` file that you find under the build directory in `/tmp/com.garmin.connectiq/GARMIN/Settings/MYSUPERAPP-settings.json` before running the `monkeydo` command that starts simulating your application, then the settings work as expected in the simulator.

    Seems like you can pass additional files in the simulator environment also with the monkeydo `-a` flag like this:

    monkeydo app.prg device_id -a additional_src_file:destination_src_file

    In our "MySuperApp" example, this would work, assuming you built your app for fenix7 under `build_directory`:

    "${ACTIVE_SDK_PATH}/bin/monkeydo" build_directory/MySuperApp.prg fenix7 -a "build_directory/MySuperApp-settings.json:GARMIN/Settings/${BASE_APP_NAME^^}-settings.json"