Prevent the mapping of objects with a data length of 0 bytes

[trojanobelix]

project.zip
Prevent the mapping of objects with a data length of 0 bytes.

The importer should prevent string objects with a data length of 0 from being imported.
In my opinion, string types without a defined length are formally allowed according to DS301, but:

• they cannot be mapped to PDO
• they cannot be used effectively
• the editor should ignore them

ToDo:
Object 0x2000 in the OD is formally correct IMHO, but is created in the CANopen Editor with a data length of 0; for strings, the data length should be initialized to 1.

[henri62]

Do you have a pre-built version with this fix in it? (Or with other fixes from the development branch latest commit).
I do not have an environment to build it myself.

On the top github page here the latest and only release is old. Maybe time to update it?

[trojanobelix]

CANopenEditor v4.2.3-70-g9b2cf86.zip

Do you have a pre-built version with this fix in it? (Or with other fixes from the development branch latest commit). I do not have an environment to build it myself.

On the top github page here the latest and only release is old. Maybe time to update it?

Here is the binary file for Windows. Unfortunately, I can't test it on Linux.

[henri62]

The windows build is ok for me, but the version does not run, it asks for the .NET runtime. I tried different versions of the runtime but it always refuses to run.
The previous version I have on my system (the only official release) still runs.
To which runtime is this version compiled?

[trojanobelix]

To which runtime is this version compiled?
.net 8.0

[henri62]

That is strange, it will not run at all (I have also the .NET 8.0.22 runtime). I also tried to copy over all files in the existing (running) tool to a new directory, copy over the files in the zip and rename it to the original name. Still not running.
It looks like visual studio 2017 is used for the project, maybe I can try to build it myself?

-edit- VS2017 does not seem to be available any more, what is recommended to use, if I want to build it myself?