Installing Externals

JB sundown at pacifier.com
Tue Aug 12 17:19:48 EDT 2014


Thank you for both replies Trevor.
It is some valuable information.  I
was wondering where the name
came from because even on the
external I wrote I could not figure
out how the name was created.

John Balgenorth


On Aug 12, 2014, at 9:51 AM, Trevor DeVore <lists at mangomultimedia.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 6:30 AM, JB <sundown at pacifier.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> How do you get the name of the first item if you do not
>> know what it is.  You could try the name of the file and
>> not include the .Bundle and in this case you would get
>> lucky and it would work.
>> 
> 
> The external developer should provide you with that information. If you are
> the external developer  then it is the value defined by the following in
> the external source:
> 
> EXTERNAL_BEGIN_DECLARATIONS("EnhancedQT")
> 
> The only other option is to assign the external file to the externals
> property of a stack, get the engine to load the external (using technique I
> mentioned in other thread), and then check the externalpackages property of
> the stack.
> 
> -- 
> Trevor DeVore
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