Can't get Extensions to work

[Michael-Gerlach]

Hi and thanks for the great application!

I wanted to install a few extensions to Sioyek, but somehow can't get it to work.

I installed Sioyek on my Mac via brew
brew install --cask sioyek

and the executable is located in '/Applications/sioyek.app'

I installed the python wrapper via
python -m pip install sioyek

I added the configuration to my prefs.user file:
new_command _embed_annotations python -m sioyek.embed_annotations "%{sioyek_path}" "%{local_database}" "%{shared_database}" "%{file_path}"

Now the new command shows up in the Sioyek menu, but I nothing happens upon execution, for other extensions I get the same behavior.

I tried changing python to python3 and python3.8 and "%{sioyek_path}" to '/Applications/sioyek.app', but that did not change anything.

If I run

python -m sioyek.embed_annotations "%{sioyek_path}" "%{file_path}" "%{command_text}"

I get the error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<frozen runpy>", line 198, in _run_module_as_main
  File "<frozen runpy>", line 88, in _run_code
  File "%{file_path}", line 7, in <module>
    SHARED_DATABASE_PATH = clean_path(sys.argv[3])
                                      ~~~~~~~~^^^
IndexError: list index out of range

What am I doing wrong here? Is there anything else I can try?

[Michael-Gerlach]

I eventually figured out that I have to specify the path to the correct python version in the prefs_user.config file:

new_command _embed_annotation /Users/username/opt/anaconda3/bin/python -m sioyek.embed_annotations "%{sioyek_path}" "%{local_database}" "%{shared_database}" "%{file_path}"

Unfortunately, now some highlights are embedded incorrectly, just as described here.

However, the solution presented there does not work for me.

[MrJuna1d]

I am trying to install the add_text extension but I am facing a similar issue where the command is being recognised but nothing happens and I am using the specific path for the python version

Can you tell me one your folder placement, where did you save the .py file and where is your prefs_user.config file??

[MrJuna1d]

got it working, Apparently I had an architecture mismatch, I had installed arm version but sioyek supports x86 so had to delete and reinstall sioyek dependency.