The Perfect Plug-In

[Richard Gaskin]

Cal Horner wrote:

> Does anyone have the perfect Definition of a plug-in? What are all of a
> plug-ins attributes and property settings? And after building a plug-in how
> do you test it?

A plugin is just a stack that's conveniently accessible within the IDE. 
  Not much special to it.  LC offers additional options to set the 
window mode, get special IDE messages, etc., all managed by the Plugin 
Settings window accessible as the last item in the Plugins submenu.

To install a custom plugin just create a folder named "Plugins" and 
change your Prefs to point to that folder* and anything in that folder 
appears in Development->Plugins.  You can also put your plugins directly 
in LC's own Plugins folder if you can find it, but note that such 
plugins won't carry forward when you upgrade.



* In Preferences you don't actually point it to your Plugins folder, but 
instead point it to the folder that contains your Plugins folder. Don't 
ask me why.

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