General discussion about plugins.

[Aivars]

Feel free to talk here about:

• Plugin development and howto
• Plugin usage and experiences
• Requests and wishes

Do not create new threads unless they contain downloadable plugin that you have developed. All discussions about a specific plugin should go in its thread. All other more general discussions should go here.

Note that plugin development help and examples can be found here: http://help.blumentals.net/webuilder/pl ... ucture.htm

[EvilBMP]

1. Is there any way to reload updated plugin code without restarting the whole editor? It's really annoying to test, if you have to restart all the time

2. Where can I find a good JScript API documentation, that is compatible to the JScript for plugins? I wanted to make use of a switch/case statement or the ternary operator, but I always got compiling errors and I don't know why

3. You should prescribe plugin namespaces, to prevent duplicates - in the TYPO3 universe its a common practise to use name or company credentials + plugin name, e.g. ab_custom_plugin

Regards, EvilBMP

[Aivars]

1. You can disable and re-enable plugin to reload it. Note that disabling plugin does not remove its menu actions, just disables them, but that should not be a problem.

2. I can't say I have any but I'm attaching a bunch of samples that cover all control structures and common-case scenarios. Here's a sample for switch..case

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  switch (i)
  {
    case 1: j = 1;
    case 2..10: { j = 2; j++; }
    default: { j = 10; }
  }

3. You might be right... It would be a good idea for author to include their name or credentials in plugin's name. Name of zip file is not important, it's the name defined in plugin.ini that counts.

[chechnyan]

is it possible to have more interface style or interface themes in the future .
something darker that match the Solarized or monokai editor color scheme.
thanks .

[Aivars]

It's being planned, yes. Also the best of our users are creating awesome color schemes now and then, which eventually make their way to the official release.

[chechnyan]

her is an almost identical "iplastic" theme .
i wish other like it .

[chechnyan]

her is another one that i think it goes nice with modern and light style

[akuchkovsky]

Hello!! Can you integrate this plugin http://emmet.io ? It would be super!! I can not to guess how to do it

[Aivars]

We are planning to integrate emmet but we have to finish some other things first.

[akuchkovsky]

It's great!!! We will wait, thank you!

[ichthys]

Hello,

I would like to build my own plugin. I like the code beautifier (I think it's the english name for the php code formatting tool) but I would like to make it available via short cut or even better to automate it.
How can I run the php formatter in a plugin?

Best regards

[Aivars]

The built in beautifier is not available as external executable that you could call from a plugin. You can however assign a shortcut key to Format PHP Code command via Options -> Keyboard Shortcuts.

[en-cOder]

Originally I inadvertently posted this to the wrong area, so I am re-posting it here.

I am a new member to this forum and would like to know if there is a more in depth form of documentation available for the plugin classes.

I am currently developing a plugin which includes several forms for user input, but there are some commands that I want to use such as reading and writing to the plugin properties.ini file, displaying an image on the main form using TImage and TPicture, and I keep getting runtime errors presumably because the syntax I am using is incorrect. Also, passing the text contained in a TMemo field to a function for processing seems to be impossible because a TMemo field contains more than one line of text, so it doesn't have a (.Text) property that you can use to reference all of the text in the control.

I am well conversed in javascript, visual basic and html programming and have followed the links to the Embarcadero website for information on the built in classes used in WeBuilder. Although I have gleaned some useful info to get me started with creating plugins, I can't find all the info that I need to complete my plugin project.The information available at the Embarcadero web site is too none-specific to WeBuilder.

Any help from the developers or forum users would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

[Aivars]

The other area was fine, too I replied you there.

[rich770]

I'm working on a "Toggle Comment" script, but having trouble with key binding. I want to bind "Ctrl + /"
I first tried to assign a shortcut key, but it doesn't seem to respond to that. (a bug)
Next I tried to make a signal to "keydown", but I'm not sure how to do a combination key, with Ctrl.
Any suggestions?

Edit: I also tried in the Script.RegisterAction part, and it still rejects "Ctrl + /".
I have my script running fine for now using another hotkey, until I figure out how to get "Ctrl + /" to work.