Plugins not showing up

[jamsk]

Okay, I've set the plugins folder in preferences as recommended, restarted LC, but no external plugins are showing up under the development>plugins menu. It's like livecode ignores the directory.

Ideas?

[Simon]

Are you using the "My LiveCode" directory?

Simon

[jamsk]

Yes. Funny thing is, they used to show up.

[mwieder]

Don't select the Plugins folder itself in preferences, select the enclosing folder.
i.e., your plugins are in "My LiveCode/Plugins", select "My LiveCode" in the preferences panel.

[jamsk]

Bingo! We have a winner. Thanks.

[mwieder]

Yeah, it's not exactly intuitive and it's not exactly documented.
The idea is that there are other things in the folder besides the Plugins folder, but you have to know that to start with and then reason it out backwards to have it make sense afterwards. Even just a popup in the preferences panel telling you what to do would ease the pain a bit.

[RevMagi]

Hello guys,

It is actually documented pretty well on the website:

/s/lessons/m/4071/l/21341-how-to-install-custom-user-plugins

Though I am actually having the same issue with the new 6.0 community version over the 5.5 version. I have configured the new to use the My Livecode folder and custom folder and it does not pick up any of the plug-ins. If I open older version of livecode they work perfect.

[jacque]

If the plugins are locked (password protected) they will not load in the community version. Are these all custom plugins?

[RevMagi]

I don't know about the others but I can not get simple free plug-ins or evn droptools to load. Let alone anything else.

Seems kind of pointless to have plug-ins that only allow you to develop with them in the commercial version and not have access to them in the community version.

[jacque]

Do you have a version of LiveCode that is not community? If so, open one of the plugins in that commercial version and see if you can edit any of its scripts. If you get a password request instead of seeing the script editor, then the plugin is password protected.

To protect the intellectual property of commercial developers, the password code was removed from the community version. If you try to open a protected plugin in community, LiveCode has no code to process the password and nothing happens.