Tutorial for making plugins?

[Garrett]

Is there a tutorial anywhere for making plugins?

Thanks
-Garrett

[Mark]

Actually, making a plugin is fairly easy. Just make a stack with a button that does something you need often. Put the stack into the Plugin folder of the Revolution folder and start Revolution. You will see it appear in the Plugins submenu.

Open the Plugin settings to make the plugin appear as a palette. In the Plugin settings, you can also see to which additional messsages the plugin may respond, if you make a more advanced plugin. E.g. you can include a revOpenStack handler that starts using your plugin.

Best,

Mark

[BarrySumpter]

Brilliant!

Thanks for posting this.

This post is from 5 and 1/2 years ago.

Has anything changed in this context of makeing plugins?

[mwieder]

Nothing's changed, but I wouldn't put plugins in "the Plugin folder of the Revolution folder" but rather in the user plugins folder, i.e., the one that shows up when you type "put revEnvironmentUserPluginsPath()" in the messagebox.

[BarrySumpter]

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