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Where can I change the name to be used of the extension I created? It’s currently named ‘(Unnamed)’ as be seen in the screenshot below.

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You create an XML packet to be send back via your override of GetProductDescription().

Check LibMain.h in the CPP examples.

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I see this, but not an empty string or <unnamed>. According to the example I would expect 'Live Panel Extension".

// define an XML string describing your product
const std::string XMLProductDescription =
    // Replace with your information
    "<Library>"
    "  <Product>"
    "    Name=\"Live Panel Extension\""
    "    Version=\"0.1\""
    "    BuildDate=\"20/02/2023\">"
    "  </Product> "
    "  <Description>Global Rackspace for GigPerformer</Description>"
    "  <ImagePath>/Path/To/ImageFile/foo.jpg</ImagePath>"
    "</Library>";
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This functions also present?

string LibMain::GetProductDescription()
{
    // Generally don't touch this - simply define the constant
    // 'XMLProductDescription' at the top of this file with an XML description of
    // your product
    return XMLProductDescription;
}

This one uses this XML.

"    BuildDate=\"20/02/2023\">"

You’re using the Dutch order for the date. The examples use MM/DD/YYYY. Maybe…?

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Yes, that function is also present.
Good catch about the date, but it didn’t solve the problem (still showing (unnamed)).

All related code:

in libmain.h:

std::string GetProductDescription() override;

in libmain.cpp

// define an XML string describing your product
const std::string XMLProductDescription =
    "<Library>"
    "  <Product>"
    "    Name=\"Live Panel Extension\""
    "    Version=\"0.1\""
    "    BuildDate=\"02/02/2023\">"
    "  </Product> "
    "  <Description>Global Rackspace for GigPerformer</Description>"
    "  <ImagePath>/Path/To/ImageFile/foo.jpg</ImagePath>"
    "</Library>";


 std::string LibMain::GetProductDescription()
 {
     return XMLProductDescription;
 }
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Gotcha :slight_smile: :

  "<Library>"
    "  <Product>"     <-Remove the ">"
    "    Name=\"Live P...

This way:

const std::string XMLProductDescription =
    "<Library>"
    "  <Product"
    "    Name=\"Live Panel Extension\""
    "    Version=\"0.1\""
    "    BuildDate=\"02/02/2023\">"
    "  </Product> "
    "  <Description>Global Rackspace for GigPerformer</Description>"
    "  <ImagePath>/Path/To/ImageFile/foo.jpg</ImagePath>"
    "</Library>";

It is a tag with attributes so the > appears a few lines further to the bottom, just after the BuildDate value

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Thanks, that was indeed the issue … maybe I accidentally removed it myself some time ago. BUt now it works!

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