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Hi,

I recently installed PSoC Creator 4.1 and see errors on startup:

An important piece of PSoC Creator has a problem and may not work correctly. Please restart PSoC Creator.

This error shows up when the following are being initialized:

CyDesigner.Common.Db.DeviceDb.Catalog.CyDcPlugin CyDesigner.Common.ProjMgmt.CyPrjMgr CyDesigner.Common.Db.CyS3Db.CyS3DbFactory CyDesigner.Device.FitterPSoC.CyFitterPSoCPlugin CyDesigner.Device.FitterFM.CyFitterFmPlugin

Additionally, when closing PSoC Creator, I get this error (and others which are similar):

This product had trouble launching on your computer. Technical error reason: An exception was thrown when trying to fully close plugin 'FM Fitter:a7614a5f-f176-4ec2-b000-98356a8f3dc8'. Exception Message: Object reference not set to an instance of an object..

I've tried to do a fresh reinstall several times, as well as uninstalling other PSoC packages. I had a version of PSoC Creator in the 3.X series working earlier in the week without these issues, so I'm not sure how to fix this. Does anyone have any suggestions?

I'm using macOS 10.12.6 (Sierra) with Parallels 13 and Windows 10.

Thanks!

Joey

I just updated Creator 4.1. 

The device on my CY8CKIT-042 Pioneer kit will not program.  The target shows as "CMSIS-DAP/248683 -->PSoC4200 CY8C4245AX*-483", protocol = SWD.  Prior to the update the target was the KitProg.  When I go to the device manager, the KitProg does not appear in the COM port section.

Very disconcerting.  This was working perfectly yesterday before I updated Creator 4.1 and now it's not working at all.   

I have just now uninstalled update 1 and re-installed Creator 4.1.0.2686.  The KitProg is still not showing up. 

Any suggestions?  

I'm having success using this software, but I don't understand the value the "GetPorts" command returns. What determines the value? Is it solely determined by the PSOC? From what I can tell it doesn't appear to be related to the silicon ID.

Typically I'll get a value of  "KitProg/0E22154D00135400", but to use the OpenPort command I have to add a space and a period. I'm not sure why I have to do that either.  Any clarifications would be appreciated.

The goal of this exercise is to automate programming of multiple devices, so its a key requirement to understand how this port stuff works.

Thanks!

Fre

I received a PSoC Creator project from a coworker and all the application files are locked. E.g. main.c has an lock icon next to its name in the tab and is not editable. How can I disable the file lock? I tried saving the project under a new name but this didn't help form me (answer in this forum to a similar case). When opening the project file I it prompted:

Log: prj.M0170: A workspace is being opened in a different version of this tool than it was last saved in. In order to preserve the ability to open the workspace in that different version of the tool, a backup has been created. It is located at 'C:\Users\..\._3.3_SP2.zip'.

I'm running PSoC Creator 4.0 Update 1 on Win 8

How can I get the files editable again?

I used to be able to build this simple bootloadable app (Top Design only has a SPI slave, a GPIO input pin, and a Bootloadable component) but all of a sudden I get:

Log file for this session is located at: C:\Users\Jean.Boucher\AppData\Local\Temp\PSoC Creator-000.log
Warning: Firmware is not fully loaded and device cannot be detected. Please reconnect - "MiniProg3/1614BB00109C".
--------------- Build Started: 08/14/2017 16:57:28 Project: ManufacturingApp, Configuration: ARM GCC 5.4-2016-q2-update Release ---------------
cydsfit.exe -.appdatapath "C:\Users\Jean.Boucher\AppData\Local\Cypress Semiconductor\PSoC Creator\4.1" -.fdsnotice -.fdswarpdepfile=warp_dependencies.txt -.fdselabdepfile=elab_dependencies.txt -.fdsbldfile=generated_files.txt -.fdsreffile=referenced_files.txt -p C:\Users\Jean.Boucher\Indigo\rc2.0.0_PSoC_IRQ_Btldr\device\safety\project\ManufacturingApp.cydsn\ManufacturingApp.cyprj -d CY8C5268LTI-LP030 -s C:\Users\Jean.Boucher\Indigo\rc2.0.0_PSoC_IRQ_Btldr\device\safety\project\ManufacturingApp.cydsn\Generated_Source\PSoC5 -- -yv2 -q10 -ygs -o2 -v3 -.fftcfgtype=LE
Elaborating Design...
HDL Generation...
Synthesis...
Tech Mapping...
Analog Placement...
Analog Routing...
Analog Code Generation...
Digital Placement...
Digital Routing...
Bitstream Generation...
Error: pft.M0101: Unable to generate metadata file:
Dependency Generation...
Cleanup...
Error: fit.M0050: The fitter aborted due to errors, please address all errors and rebuild. (App=cydsfit)
--------------- Build Failed: 08/14/2017 16:57:36 ---------------
--------------- Clean Started: 08/14/2017 16:57:46 Project: ManufacturingApp, Configuration: ARM GCC 5.4-2016-q2-update Release ---------------
Deleting file ".\ManufacturingApp.rpt"
--------------- Clean Succeeded: 08/14/2017 16:57:46 ---------------
--------------- Build Started: 08/14/2017 16:58:14 Project: ManufacturingApp, Configuration: ARM GCC 5.4-2016-q2-update Release ---------------
cydsfit.exe -.appdatapath "C:\Users\Jean.Boucher\AppData\Local\Cypress Semiconductor\PSoC Creator\4.1" -.fdsnotice -.fdswarpdepfile=warp_dependencies.txt -.fdselabdepfile=elab_dependencies.txt -.fdsbldfile=generated_files.txt -.fdsreffile=referenced_files.txt -p C:\Users\Jean.Boucher\Indigo\rc2.0.0_PSoC_IRQ_Btldr\device\safety\project\ManufacturingApp.cydsn\ManufacturingApp.cyprj -d CY8C5268LTI-LP030 -s C:\Users\Jean.Boucher\Indigo\rc2.0.0_PSoC_IRQ_Btldr\device\safety\project\ManufacturingApp.cydsn\Generated_Source\PSoC5 -- -yv2 -q10 -ygs -o2 -v3 -.fftcfgtype=LE
Elaborating Design...
HDL Generation...
Synthesis...
Tech Mapping...
Analog Placement...
Analog Routing...
Analog Code Generation...
Digital Placement...
Digital Routing...
Bitstream Generation...
Error: pft.M0101: Unable to generate metadata file:
Dependency Generation...
Cleanup...
Error: fit.M0050: The fitter aborted due to errors, please address all errors and rebuild. (App=cydsfit)
--------------- Build Failed: 08/14/2017 16:58:21 ---------------

Not very helpful error message. Seems like something should follow the ":" at the end of it. I can't figure-out what's suddenly causing this. Updating to PSoC Creator 4.1 Update 1 (4.1.0.3210) didn't help.  Does the same for Debug configuration. Has anyone else seen this error?