What opened a plugin?

[Richard Gaskin]

Sarah Reichelt wrote:

> I think this has been asked before, but I don't know if anyone came up
> with a solution. I have a plugin in the Plugins menu and it opens
> automatically when Rev starts. When it finishes it's task, I then want
> it to close itself and go away. If it gets an error, it should stay
> open - that is not a problem.
> 
> The problem is if I want to edit it or it's setting later. I want a
> way to detect whether it has been opened automatically on startup, or
> whether it has been chosen from the plugins menu manually. If manually
> opened, I don't want it to close when finished.
> 
> There are ways around this, but I just wondered if there was any
> in-built way to detect what was happening.

You should be able to check the executionContexts from within 
preOpenStack to determine whether the stack was opened from the Plugins 
menu.

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